On Wednesday's Houston Matters: Harris County is suing drug manufacturers, doctors, and a pharmacist over the opioid epidemic. We discuss how the county's case might stand up in court with Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Also this hour: It’s time again for the Houston Matters weekly political roundup with analysis of national, state, and local political stories -- with an eye to how it all might affect Houston... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/12/13/256112/full-show-political-roundup-and-flood-mitigation-projects-dec-13-2017/">Read More</a>

On Wednesday's Houston Matters: Harris County is suing drug manufacturers, doctors, and a pharmacist over the opioid epidemic. We discuss how the county's case might stand up in court with Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Also this hour: It’s time again for the Houston Matters weekly political roundup with analysis of national, state, and local political stories -- with an eye to how it all might affect Houston... Read More

On Wednesday's Houston Matters: Harris County is suing drug manufacturers, doctors, and a pharmacist over the opioid epidemic. We discuss how the county's case might stand up in court with Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Also this hour: It’s time again for the Houston Matters weekly political roundup with analysis of national, state, and local political stories -- with an eye to how it all might affect Houston... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/12/13/256112/full-show-political-roundup-and-flood-mitigation-projects-dec-13-2017/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Full Show: Political Roundup, And Flood Mitigation Projects (Dec. 13, 2017)

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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