On Thursday's Houston Matters: Spring Branch ISD Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Blaine discusses her district's back-to-school plans. Also this hour: As Spring Branch and other districts choose different back-to-school plans, Suzi Kennon, president of the Texas PTA, tells News 88.7’s Laura Isensee she hopes the well-being of students stays the focus of those plans. Plus: On this day 75 years ago, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan. We meet Ritsuko... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/08/06/379244/thursdays-houston-matters-spring-branch-superintendent-and-an-atomic-bomb-survivors-story-aug-6-2020/">Read More</a>

On Thursday's Houston Matters: Spring Branch ISD Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Blaine discusses her district's back-to-school plans. Also this hour: As Spring Branch and other districts choose different back-to-school plans, Suzi Kennon, president of the Texas PTA, tells News 88.7’s Laura Isensee she hopes the well-being of students stays the focus of those plans. Plus: On this day 75 years ago, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan. We meet Ritsuko... Read More

On Thursday's Houston Matters: Spring Branch ISD Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Blaine discusses her district's back-to-school plans. Also this hour: As Spring Branch and other districts choose different back-to-school plans, Suzi Kennon, president of the Texas PTA, tells News 88.7’s Laura Isensee she hopes the well-being of students stays the focus of those plans. Plus: On this day 75 years ago, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan. We meet Ritsuko... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/08/06/379244/thursdays-houston-matters-spring-branch-superintendent-and-an-atomic-bomb-survivors-story-aug-6-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Thursday’s Houston Matters: Spring Branch Superintendent, And An Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Story (Aug. 6, 2020)

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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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