Houston Hacks and Lady Bird and Lyndon: Friday’s Show (November 6, 2015)

We all have little tricks to make our lives in Houston easier. Maybe yours include avoiding crowds by shopping for groceries during a Texans game, or maybe you know a special shortcut around traffic.

On this edition of Houston Matters, we share your Houston life hacks. We also hear examples from Viula Torgerson, who writes The Heights Life blog, and the Houston Chronicle’s Craig Hlavaty.

Also this hour: A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of it all. On today's panel: attorney and community education advocate Monica Richart; communications strategist Amber Ambrose; and Vlad Davidiuk, Chairman of the College Republicans & a Senior Senator in the Student Government Association at the University of St Thomas. They discuss voter turnout for Tuesday’s election, a potentially veiled threat about future Final Fours from the NCAA, area gymnast Simone Biles becoming the first woman to win 10 career world championship gold medals, and the return of Krispy Kreme donuts to Houston.

Plus: We talk with Betty Boyd Caroli, author of Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President.