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Familiar traffic anchor Jennifer Reyna returns to Houston morning TV

After a two-year hiatus, Jennifer Reyna is back.

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A familiar face in morning TV news has resurfaced. Veteran traffic reporter, anchor, and personality Jennifer Reyna will join KHOU 11, the station announced.

The former Channel 2 personality (she departed in 2019) and model will now join wildly popular meteorologist Chita Craft, plus anchors Stephanie Simmons and Kimberly Davis weekday mornings from 4:30-7 am beginning November 1st, per KHOU 11.

Boasting more than 80,000 Instagram followers and even a Cameo presence, Reyna is equally a social media star. The Houston native is an avid sports fan, is seen at myriad events, and supports nonprofits such as the Houston Association of Hispanic Media, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and the Lone Survivor Foundation, among others, per her bio.

“I am pleased to join KHOU 11 and do my part to engage and inform my fellow Houstonians,” Reyna said in a statement. “I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with the team and they are talented, dedicated, and fun. I’m sure our viewers will appreciate the time they spend with us every morning.”

Reyna’s addition comes as pivotal Houston TV anchors are making moves and the TV news landscape is evolving and pivoting. As CultureMap recently reported, ABC13’s Art Rascon, who joined the station in 1998, is retiring and will be replaced by his son, former NBC News correspondent Jacob Rascon.

Meanwhile, TV’s most beloved anchor, Dominique Sachse of Channel 2, announced her retirement from the station after 28 years. “Saying goodbye to a 28-year career in the TV news business is bittersweet,” Sachse told CultureMap, adding that she has been “fortunate to have been welcomed into the viewer’s home for as long as I have.”

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Houston suburb Pasadena ranks as 3rd best place to retire in Texas

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Pasadena is the third best place to retire in Texas.

Texas retirees on the hunt for the right place to settle down and enjoy their blissful retirement years will find their haven in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, which just ranked as the third-best city to retire statewide.

A new study conducted by the research team at RetirementLiving.com, "The Best Cities to Retire in Texas," compared the affordability, safety, livability, and healthcare access for seniors across 31 Texas cities with at least 90,000 residents.

Wichita Falls, about 140 miles northwest of Dallas, claimed the top spot as the No. 1 best place to retire in Texas.

The senior living experts said Pasadena has the best health care access for seniors in the entire state, and it ranked as the No. 8 most affordable city on the list.

"Taking care of one’s health can be stressful for seniors," the report said. "Harris County, where [Pasadena is] located, has 281.1 primary care physicians per 1,000 seniors — that’s almost 50-fold the statewide ratio of 5.9 per 1,000."

Pasadena ranked 10th overall for its livability, and ranked 25th for safety, the report added.

Meanwhile, Houston proper ranked as the No. 31 best place to retire in Texas, but its livability score was the 7th best statewide.

The top 10 best places to retire are in North Texas
This may not be surprising to residents living in Dallas-Fort Worth, but seven of the Lone Star State's top 10 best retirement locales are located in the North Texas Metroplex: Carrollton (No. 2), Plano (No. 4), Garland (No. 5), Richardson (No. 6), Arlington (No. 7), Grand Prairie (No. 8), and Irving (No. 9). McAllen, a South Texas border town, rounded out the top 10.

RetirementLiving said Carrollton has one of the lowest property and violent crime rates per capita in Texas, and it ranked as the No. 5 safest city on the list. About 17 percent of the city's population is aged 65 or older, which is higher than the statewide average of just 14 percent.

Other North Texas cities that were named among the best places to retire include McKinney (No. 16), Lewisville (No. 20), Denton (No. 22), and Frisco (No. 23). Meanwhile, Fort Worth ranked as the 28th best place to retire, and Dallas was 29th.

The top 10 best place to retire in Texas in 2026 are:

No. 1 – Wichita Falls
No. 2 – Carrollton
No. 3 – Pasadena
No. 4 – Plano
No. 5 – Garland
No. 6 – Richardson
No. 7 – Arlington
No. 8 – Grand Prairie
No. 9 – Irving
No. 10 – McAllen

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