On Monday's Houston Matters: Today is the deadline for Texans to register to vote in the November election. We consider which court battles changed the nature of our election, including the 2013 strike down of the preclearance provision in the Voting Rights Act, which required federal approval for changes in election procedures in Texas and other Southern states. Also this hour: Elective procedures that were put on hold during social distancing orders put many hospitals... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/10/05/383206/mondays-houston-matters-voter-registration-deadline-reached-as-voting-battles-wage-on-and-texas-prisons-in-the-pandemic-oct-05-2020/">Read More</a>

On Monday's Houston Matters: Today is the deadline for Texans to register to vote in the November election. We consider which court battles changed the nature of our election, including the 2013 strike down of the preclearance provision in the Voting Rights Act, which required federal approval for changes in election procedures in Texas and other Southern states. Also this hour: Elective procedures that were put on hold during social distancing orders put many hospitals... Read More

On Monday's Houston Matters: Today is the deadline for Texans to register to vote in the November election. We consider which court battles changed the nature of our election, including the 2013 strike down of the preclearance provision in the Voting Rights Act, which required federal approval for changes in election procedures in Texas and other Southern states. Also this hour: Elective procedures that were put on hold during social distancing orders put many hospitals... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/10/05/383206/mondays-houston-matters-voter-registration-deadline-reached-as-voting-battles-wage-on-and-texas-prisons-in-the-pandemic-oct-05-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Monday’s Houston Matters: Voter Registration Deadline, And Texas Prisons In The Pandemic (Oct. 05, 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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