On Friday's Houston Matters: We find out why Latino communities seem especially susceptible to COVID-19. Also this hour: The upcoming in-person school year may mean the return to after-school activities and sports. What can coaches do to keep children safe from a virus while playing football? Then we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week’s news. And, Christopher Rothko, son of the esteemed painter Mark Rothko, discusses his father's legacy at the... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/08/21/380183/fridays-houston-matters-covid-19-in-the-latino-community-high-school-footbal-and-the-rothko-chapel-aug-21-2020/">Read More</a>

On Friday's Houston Matters: We find out why Latino communities seem especially susceptible to COVID-19. Also this hour: The upcoming in-person school year may mean the return to after-school activities and sports. What can coaches do to keep children safe from a virus while playing football? Then we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week’s news. And, Christopher Rothko, son of the esteemed painter Mark Rothko, discusses his father's legacy at the... Read More

On Friday's Houston Matters: We find out why Latino communities seem especially susceptible to COVID-19. Also this hour: The upcoming in-person school year may mean the return to after-school activities and sports. What can coaches do to keep children safe from a virus while playing football? Then we break down&nbsp;The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly&nbsp;of the week’s news. And, Christopher Rothko, son of the esteemed painter Mark Rothko, discusses his father's legacy at the... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/08/21/380183/fridays-houston-matters-covid-19-in-the-latino-community-high-school-footbal-and-the-rothko-chapel-aug-21-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Friday’s Houston Matters: COVID-19 In The Latino Community, And High School Football In The Pandemic (Aug. 21, 2020)

Houston Matters is a radio program airing weekdays at 9 am on Houston Public Media News 88.7 FM in Houston. During each hour, we&#8217;ll investigate the issues and ideas, people and places that make Houston&#8230;well&#8230;Houston! We&#8217;ll talk about current events, politics, education, health care, the environment, business, transportation, arts and culture, literature, sports and leisure. But we also hope that what we do each day on Houston Matters serves as the beginning of a conversation &#8212; one we hope you&#8217;ll continue here, at home, at work, with family, with friends and neighbors. We hope to introduce Houstonians to one another, to celebrate our diversity, and to engage one another through stories and conversations that demonstrate depth and context. Just the sort of thing you count on from public media.

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Houston Matters is a radio program airing weekdays at 9 am on Houston Public Media News 88.7 FM in Houston. During each hour, we’ll investigate the issues and ideas, people and places that make Houston…well…Houston! We’ll talk about current events, politics, education, health care, the environment, business, transportation, arts and culture, literature, sports and leisure. But we also hope that what we do each day on Houston Matters serves as the beginning of a conversation — one we hope you’ll continue here, at home, at work, with family, with friends and neighbors. We hope to introduce Houstonians to one another, to celebrate our diversity, and to engage one another through stories and conversations that demonstrate depth and context. Just the sort of thing you count on from public media.

Houston Matters is a radio program airing weekdays at 9 am on Houston Public Media News 88.7 FM in Houston. During each hour, we’ll investigate the issues and ideas, people and places that make Houston…well…Houston! We’ll talk about current events, politics, education, health care, the environment, business, transportation, arts and culture, literature, sports and leisure. But we also hope that what we do each day on Houston Matters serves as the beginning of a conversation — one we hope you’ll continue here, at home, at work, with family, with friends and neighbors. We hope to introduce Houstonians to one another, to celebrate our diversity, and to engage one another through stories and conversations that demonstrate depth and context. Just the sort of thing you count on from public media.

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