Our special edition of Houston Matters weekdays at 3 p.m. addresses your questions and concerns about important issues affecting the community. In the first segment, host Ernie Manouse is joined by Jeremy Desel, director of communications for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a former reporter for KHOU. They discuss the current situation with COVID-19 outbreaks in Texas prisons. Then, Ernie is joined by Keri Blakinger, a criminal justice reporter for The Marshall Project... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/08/11/379608/special-edition-criminal-justice-reporter-keri-blakinger-and-tdcjs-jeremy-desel/">Read More</a>

Our special edition of Houston Matters weekdays at 3 p.m. addresses your questions and concerns about important issues affecting the community. In the first segment, host Ernie Manouse is joined by Jeremy Desel, director of communications for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a former reporter for KHOU. They discuss the current situation with COVID-19 outbreaks in Texas prisons. Then, Ernie is joined by Keri Blakinger, a criminal justice reporter for The Marshall Project... Read More

Our special edition of Houston Matters weekdays at 3 p.m. addresses your questions and concerns about important issues affecting the community. In the first segment, host Ernie Manouse is joined by Jeremy Desel, director of communications for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a former reporter for KHOU. They discuss the current situation with COVID-19 outbreaks in Texas prisons. Then, Ernie is joined by Keri Blakinger, a criminal justice reporter for The Marshall Project... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/08/11/379608/special-edition-criminal-justice-reporter-keri-blakinger-and-tdcjs-jeremy-desel/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Special Edition: Criminal Justice Reporter Keri Blakinger and TDCJ’s Jeremy Desel

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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