On Friday's Houston Matters: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he’s loosening COVID-19 restrictions for restaurants, retail, and office buildings in Texas. What does this mean for Houston?  Also this hour: Joshua Zinn talks with Kinder HSPVA students who are part of a national effort to including more diverse and anti-racist texts in school curriculum. Then, Michael Hagerty talks with reporter Elizabeth Trovall and educator Tony Diaz about icons of Houston’s Latino community. And we break... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/09/18/382179/fridays-houston-matters-governor-covid-19-update-diversify-our-narrative-latino-icons-sep-18-2020/">Read More</a>

On Friday's Houston Matters: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he’s loosening COVID-19 restrictions for restaurants, retail, and office buildings in Texas. What does this mean for Houston? Also this hour: Joshua Zinn talks with Kinder HSPVA students who are part of a national effort to including more diverse and anti-racist texts in school curriculum. Then, Michael Hagerty talks with reporter Elizabeth Trovall and educator Tony Diaz about icons of Houston’s Latino community. And we break... Read More

On Friday's Houston Matters: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he’s loosening COVID-19 restrictions for restaurants, retail, and office buildings in Texas. What does this mean for Houston?&nbsp; Also this hour: Joshua Zinn talks with Kinder HSPVA students who are part of a national effort to including more diverse and anti-racist texts in school curriculum. Then, Michael Hagerty talks with reporter Elizabeth Trovall and educator Tony Diaz about icons of Houston’s Latino community. And we break... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/09/18/382179/fridays-houston-matters-governor-covid-19-update-diversify-our-narrative-latino-icons-sep-18-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Friday’s Houston Matters: Gov. Abbott Loosening COVID-19 Restrictions, And Honoring Houston’s Latino Icons (Sept. 18, 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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