Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: The life and career of late Rep. Jack Brooks, the best sports bars in town, and the 40th annual Festival Chicano.
Posted on · There’s potentially a resolution at hand of a court case involving a proposal to sell the Houston Regional Sports Network. That’s the parent company of the long-lamented Astros-Rockets-Comcast partnership better known as CSN Houston, the channel 60 percent of Houstonians canât see on providers who aren’t named Comcast. If approved by U.S. bankruptcy Judge Marvin […]
Posted on · The back and forth legal wrangling over Texas’ controversial 2013 abortion law continued Tuesday. The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the state from enforcing a key provision of the law, which had effectively closed all but a handful of health clinics in Texas providing abortions. The Justices granted a request to suspend a ruling by the […]
Posted on · HISD is implementing a new anti-bullying campaign. But this one’s not aimed towards students. The district's new policy is cracking down on bullying among school employees. The new initiative comes as a Houston based group prepares to host a rally to raise awareness of incidents of cyber-bullying. We'll discuss these anti-bullying efforts here in Greater […]
Posted on · Hundreds of thousands of Houstonians drive in and out of the city each day. On a past Houston Matters, we explored how we might improve that daily commute experience. But say we canât. Assume that in the coming years youâre still stuck in the same traffic at the same time most every day. How does […]
Posted on · Astros owner Jim Crane is suing former owner Drayton McLane, Comcast and NBC Universal accusing them of selling him âan asset they knew at the time to be overpriced and broken.â That asset is CSN Houston, the TV network that airs Astros and Rockets games — a network not many Houstonians have access to. We […]
Posted on · What impact can one person moving to Houston have? Well, for nearly a year, some 60% of Houston has been unable to watch Comcast Sportsnet Houston, because of a dispute between the channel and carriers including AT&T's U-Verse, DirecTV, and DISH Network. That may soon change, with the impending official announcement that Dwight Howard has […]