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Would Houston Exist Without Air Conditioning?
Posted on · We learn the role air conditioning played in making Houston the massive, sprawling city it is today -- for better or worse.
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Will Lawsuits Against ERCOT Succeed? (Feb. 23, 2021)
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: State lawmakers take up the governor’s emergency item on ERCOT reform, lawyers try to sue the energy grid operator over last week’s power outage, and Houston City Councilman Edward Pollard answers listener questions.
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Downtown Hotel Renamed To Honor The ‘Mother Of Houston’
Posted on · The C. Baldwin Hotel gets its name from Charlotte Baldwin Allen, the woman often credited as 'the mother of Houston.'
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Could The Woodlands Become Its Own City?
Posted on · What would possible incorporation mean for The Woodlands -- and would it protect the planned community from annexation by Houston or Conroe?
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Operation Photo Rescue Offers Free Image Restoration For Harvey Victims
Posted on · The free service is accepting appointments to submit photographs -- that were damaged by recent flooding -- to be restored. Appointments are required for the event, Dec. 9-10.
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City In A City: Course Explores How Houston Enclaves Forged Their Own Identities
Posted on · A new course explores how areas and developments within Greater Houston have forged their own unique identities -- and even governments -- over the years.
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Full Show: Political Roundup, And Outdoor Dining (Oct. 4, 2017)
Posted on · On Wednesday's edition of Houston Matters: We engage in our weekly political roundup. Houston food writers discuss their favorite places to eat outdoors. And we learn how some enclaves within Houston have unique personalities.
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Quality Hill: A Tour of Houston’s First – and Forgotten – Upscale Neighborhood
Posted on · It turns out the area around Minute Maid Park was once known as Quality Hill, and that was Houston’s first upscale neighborhood.
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Prisons, Queso and Pints: Houston Matters Weekend for Dec. 17, 2016
Posted on · A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education says over the past three decades, state and local spending on prisons and jails has risen more than three times faster than spending on elementary and secondary education. The disparities are far greater in Texas, where prison spending grew at nearly eight times the rate of […]
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Houston’s First-Ever City Song Took Some Liberties with History
Posted on · Did you know that Houston had its own official city song back in the early 20th century? Nope? Well, neither did the folks at Preservation Houston — that is until they received a donation of the first-ever Houston flag and started digging around for information on it. It seems the flag — and the song […]
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Pensions and ADA Compliant Voting: Tuesday’s Show (August 16, 2016)
Posted on · Last week (August 9, 2016), Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research released a report highlighting the current financial state of Houston's pensions. The report lays out why the city's unfunded liabilities are growing, and offers options for reform (though it does not make any recommendations about those options). On this edition of Houston Matters, […]
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What Will Houston Be Like in 30 Years?
Posted on · MORE: Your Predictions for the Houston of 2045 30 years ago this past weekend, Back to the Future opened in theaters here in Houston and across the country. The film, and its subsequent sequels, tells the tale of Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveling back and forth through time in a tricked-out DeLorean. First, Marty […]
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What Are Some of Houston’s Greatest Mistakes?
Posted on · We all make mistakes in our lives – we take a step one way, when we probably should have gone the other. We try to learn from those missteps and not repeat them, but sometimes, well, the lesson's never really learned. The same can be said for communities. Some decisions we made (or didn’t make) […]
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Houston’s Greatest Mistakes: Friday’s show (April 24, 2015)
Posted on · We all make mistakes in our lives â we take a step one way, when we probably should have gone the other. We try to learn from those missteps and not repeat them, but sometimes, well, the lessonâs never really learned. The same can be said for communities. Some decisions we made (or didn’t make) […]
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The Last Seat At The Dome: Buying A Piece of Houston History
Posted on · Last year, the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation offered Houstonians an opportunity to purchase seats from the Astrodome. Matthew Murphy is one of the Houston residents who jumped at the chance to buy a pair of seats that were once housed in the iconic building. Murphy filmed his experience for what was originally meant […]