On Wednesday's Houston Matters: We learn how Harris County measures air quality during weather events like Tropical Storm Beta and about new efforts to be more transparent with data on pollution during such  events. Also this hour: In our weekly political roundup, we discuss the balance of the Supreme Court along with the latest developments in local, state, and national politics. Then, entomologist Erin Mills, director of the Cockrell Butterfly Center at Houston's Museum of... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/09/23/382462/wednesdays-houston-matters-county-pollution-monitoring-the-week-in-politics-ask-the-bug-expert-david-biespiel-sept-23-2020/">Read More</a>

On Wednesday's Houston Matters: We learn how Harris County measures air quality during weather events like Tropical Storm Beta and about new efforts to be more transparent with data on pollution during such events. Also this hour: In our weekly political roundup, we discuss the balance of the Supreme Court along with the latest developments in local, state, and national politics. Then, entomologist Erin Mills, director of the Cockrell Butterfly Center at Houston's Museum of... Read More

On Wednesday's Houston Matters: We learn how Harris County measures air quality during weather events like Tropical Storm Beta and about new efforts to be more transparent with data on pollution during such &nbsp;events. Also this hour: In our weekly political roundup, we discuss the balance of the Supreme Court along with the latest developments in local, state, and national politics. Then, entomologist Erin Mills, director of the Cockrell Butterfly Center at Houston's Museum of... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/09/23/382462/wednesdays-houston-matters-county-pollution-monitoring-the-week-in-politics-ask-the-bug-expert-david-biespiel-sept-23-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More</a>

Wednesday’s Houston Matters: Monitoring Air Pollution During Storms, And The Week In Politics (Sept. 23, 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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