Posted on · Littering — are we seeing tons more of it in H-town? Why? What the heck, people? We take a closer look at the problem here and talk about the psychology behind littering – both for people who litter/dump, and what we who witness it ascribe to them. We talk with John Nova Lomax, of Texas […]
Posted on · If you've been to the River Walk in San Antonio, you've seen — or even ridden — the barges that take tourists down the river. Well, last year, a Houston architecture and design company won a competition to design new boats, replacing the aging fleet. Metalab Studio has created a new design for the river […]
Posted on · Back in 2011, Houston Matters' Edel Howlin reported on the amount of litter showing up on Houston freeways. Part of the reason for the increased number was that it was a particularly hot year, one of the hottest on record and also the reason many parts of Texas are still recovering from a drought. Because […]
Posted on · We all experience peaks and valleys in our lives. Great accomplishments, health scares, personal milestones, economic woes; some years you're up, others you're down. But you'd be hard-pressed to find many Houstonians who have been on a roller coaster ride to match J.R. Richard, a mainstay in the Houston Astros rotation throughout the 1970s, and […]