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How highways affect Texans (April 9, 2024)

How highways affect Texans (April 9, 2024)

FromHouston Matters


How highways affect Texans (April 9, 2024)

FromHouston Matters

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Apr 9, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

 

On Tuesday's show: A Harris County inmate has died after being transferred to a private prison in Louisiana. News 88.7 reporter Lucio Vasquez brings us the latest on the second reported in-custody death this year.
Also this hour: Highway expansion was once deemed essential to Houston’s future. Today, it’s criticized for displacing homes and businesses and dividing cities. Texas-based journalist Megan Kimble discusses how highways affect Texans in her book, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways.
Then: Ahead of his appearance tomorrow at Blue Willow Bookshop, we talk with Keith O’Brien, author of the new book Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. We discuss Rose, the re-emergence of gambling in professional sports, and the recent scandal involving the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani.
And we visit the cat circus. Yes, the cat circus. The Amazing Acro-Cats are in Houston for shows this week at The MATCH.
Released:
Apr 9, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.