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Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot, a new podcast from Houston Public Media. Listen Here.
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Ashley Brown is a news reporter at Houston Public Media, News 88.7. She covers a range of topics, primarily focusing on Houston City Hall.
Before moving back to Houston in 2022, she worked at WHQR Public Radio in Wilmington, NC where she covered city and county government, homelessness and community impact stories.

Ashley holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Sam Houston State University and a master’s degree in professional communication and digital media from Texas Southern University.

When she’s not reporting, she loves spending time with friends and family, reading, working out, and trying new brunch spots around Houston.

Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot, a new podcast from Houston Public Media. Listen Here.

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