On Monday’s show: We learn how hospitals dealt with last week’s power and water outages amid a global pandemic. Also this hour: We discuss how grocery stores are dealing with the demand for food and water and learn what they’d like to see change to help them better meet customer needs in a future emergency. Then, as we review what went wrong during last week’s devastating power failures, we have to remember that this was,... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2021/02/22/391938/boil-order-lifted-and-grocery-stores-work-to-meet-demand-feb-22-2021/">Read More</a>

On Monday’s show: We learn how hospitals dealt with last week’s power and water outages amid a global pandemic. Also this hour: We discuss how grocery stores are dealing with the demand for food and water and learn what they’d like to see change to help them better meet customer needs in a future emergency. Then, as we review what went wrong during last week’s devastating power failures, we have to remember that this was,... Read More

On Monday’s show: We learn how hospitals dealt with last week’s power and water outages amid a global pandemic. Also this hour: We discuss how grocery stores are dealing with the demand for food and water and learn what they’d like to see change to help them better meet customer needs in a future emergency. Then, as we review what went wrong during last week’s devastating power failures, we have to remember that this was,... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2021/02/22/391938/boil-order-lifted-and-grocery-stores-work-to-meet-demand-feb-22-2021/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

How The Power Outage Affected Hospitals Amid A Pandemic, And Grocery Stores Work To Meet Demand (Feb. 22, 2021)

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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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