Houston Matters
The Big Easy And The Bayou City: Exploring Houston’s Connections To New Orleans
Posted on · As New Orleans celebrates its 300th birthday, Houston Matters discusses that city's connections with Houston.
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Houston Matters
Full Show: Age Limits For Tackle Football, And Houston’s Connections To New Orleans (April 2, 2018)
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: We learn the latest on an incident at the Chevron Phillips facility in Baytown. Then, we discuss potential age limits on tackle football. Plus, we learn about Houston's connections to New Orleans as that city celebrates its tricentennial. And Jeff Balke updates us on Houston sports.
News
PHOTO GALLERY: Mardi Gras: New Orleans Throws Big Bash Of Parades, Partying
Posted on · The holiday climaxes a two-week Carnival season, which draws about 1 million visitors and pumps about $840 million into the city's economy, according to the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau
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11 Cities That U.S. Millenials Are Moving To: And One Of Them Happens to Be in Texas
Posted on · Business Insider compiled a list of places that the young generation is choosing to settle after college
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Authorities Suspend Search For Missing Katy Worker, After Oil Rig Explosion Near New Orleans
Posted on · The missing man has been identified as Timothy Morrison, 44, of Katy, Texas, a subcontractor on the structure.
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Nate Marches Across US East Coast, Dumping Heavy Rains
Posted on · Nate slogged its way across the U.S. East Coast on Monday, dumping heavy rains and bringing gusty winds to inland states as a tropical depression.
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Federal Court Hears Arguments on SB4
Posted on · The stage is set for a Friday court battle in New Orleans between the state's attorneys and local governments over Texas' immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 4.
Houston Matters
Full Show: Political Roundup, And Houston Restaurants Help Out After Harvey (Sept. 20, 2017)
Posted on · On Wednesday’s edition of Houston Matters: We discuss the latest political stories. We learn how local restaurants have stepped up to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey. And some New Orleans musicians help out their Houston counterparts after the storm.
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Workers Take Jefferson Davis Statue Off Its Pedestal In New Orleans
Posted on · Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his allies say monuments to Confederate figures celebrate the "Cult of the Lost Cause" and hold the city back.
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New Orleans Takes Down White Supremacist Monument
Posted on · A monument to a deadly white-supremacist uprising in 1874 was removed under cover of darkness by workers in masks and bulletproof vests Monday as New Orleans joined the movement to take down symbols of the Confederacy and the Jim Crow South.
Skyline Sessions
Live In Studio: The New Orleans Hustlers Brass Band
Posted on · Houston Public Media gets a visit from the ultimate NOLA party band.
Voices and Verses
National Poetry Month: “Late Pastoral” By Amanda Auchter
Posted on · The Houston poet writes a love letter to New Orleans.
News
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Immigration Program
Posted on · Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional comment. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has once again ruled against the Obama administration’s controversial immigration program, upholding a lower court’s injunction barring the plan from taking effect while awaiting the outcome of a full trial on the lawsuit’s underlying […]
Weather
Houston Area Officials Remember Katrina’s Aftermath
Posted on · Ten years ago Monday, the first evacuees from Hurricane Katrina arrived at the Houston Astrodome.
Houston Matters
Displaced By Katrina, New Orleans Church Members Still Gather Today in Houston
Posted on · When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, people scattered. Some decided to stay in their “new towns.” In Houston, displaced members of one New Orleans church — Franklin Avenue Baptist Church — created a new church here. News 88.7’s Laurie Johnson reports.