On Thursday's Houston Matters: The nonpartisan League of Women Voters talks to us about rebuffed efforts to distribute election information, including registration kits. Also this hour: We talk to Houston Chronicle reporter Samantha Ketterer about COVID-19 exacerbating Harris County's backlog of murder cases. Then Meg Tapp from the Garden Club of Houston offers tips for your garden and answers listener questions. And Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, has written a children’s book called... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/09/03/381107/thursdays-houston-matters-league-of-women-voters-court-case-backlog-and-wild-symphony-sep-03-2020/">Read More</a>

On Thursday's Houston Matters: The nonpartisan League of Women Voters talks to us about rebuffed efforts to distribute election information, including registration kits. Also this hour: We talk to Houston Chronicle reporter Samantha Ketterer about COVID-19 exacerbating Harris County's backlog of murder cases. Then Meg Tapp from the Garden Club of Houston offers tips for your garden and answers listener questions. And Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, has written a children’s book called... Read More

On Thursday's Houston Matters: The nonpartisan League of Women Voters talks to us about rebuffed efforts to distribute election information, including registration kits. Also this hour: We talk to Houston Chronicle reporter Samantha Ketterer&nbsp;about COVID-19 exacerbating Harris County's backlog of murder cases. Then Meg Tapp from the Garden Club of Houston offers tips for your garden and answers listener questions. And Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, has written a children’s book called... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/09/03/381107/thursdays-houston-matters-league-of-women-voters-court-case-backlog-and-wild-symphony-sep-03-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Thursday’s Houston Matters: Voter Registration Challenges, And Murder Case Backlog (Sep. 3, 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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