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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
August TV Drive is ongoing! Visionary Leader Andrea Bryant $25k matching challenge

Tag: public meetings

Houston Matters

Leading A Handcuffed Black Man By A Rope, And Flood Meetings Snub Houston: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The News

Abner Fletcher

Posted on August 9, 2019 · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.

Tags flood planning flood planning and financing flooding Galveston mounted police Galveston Police handcuffed black man law enforcement Luis Carrasco Marco Roberts Marcus Davis public meetings race The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Houston Matters

The Challenging Task Of Running A Public Meeting

Abner Fletcher

Posted on April 29, 2019 · We examine the best practices and mistakes of running a public forum.

Tags meeting metro npr open forum public comments public meetings Tanya McWashington

Politics

Former Rep. Giffords: Lawmakers Should ‘Have Some Courage,’ Hold Town Halls

Brian Naylor, NPR

Posted on February 24, 2017 · Gabrielle Giffords responded to a Texas Republican who said he was not holding public meetings because groups from "more violent strains of the leftist ideology" were threatening public safety.

Tags former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords public meetings Republican Congressman Louis Gohmert

Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
August TV Drive is ongoing! Visionary Leader Andrea Bryant $25k matching challenge

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School security and Pearland’s Little League success (Aug. 12, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on August 12, 2022 · On Friday's show: How HISD hopes to improve security at schools in the event of an active shooter. We break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week. And we learn how Houston became a mecca for competitive air hockey.

Tags Air Hockey hisd Little League baseball pearland school safety The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Below the Waterlines

Five years after Harvey, a solution to the flood threat from the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs remains a long way off

Andrew Schneider

Posted on August 9, 2022 · The most popular solution to the flooding threat from the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs is a massive underground stormwater tunnel. It would cost billions of dollars and remains more than a decade away from the start of construction.

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Houston Matters

How the Inflation Reduction Act might affect Houston (Aug. 9, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on August 9, 2022 · On Tuesday's show: Analyzing the climate change provision in the Inflation Reduction Act and how it might affect Houston. Questions for Mayor Pro-Tem Dave Martin. A gardening expert answers your questions. And addressing problems Hurricane Harvey exposed with area reservoirs.

Tags Addicks and Barker Reservoirs Below the Waterlines city council climate change congress Dave Martin Environmental Defense Fund flooding Garden Club of Houston gardening houston city council Hurricane Harvey inflation Inflation Reduction Act Meg Tapp

Houston Matters

What it would take to bring Brittney Griner home, and Indian composer and violinist L. Subramaniam (Aug. 5, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on August 5, 2022 · On Friday's show: An international relations expert explains what it might take for the United States to arrange for Griner's release after her guilty verdict and sentencing. Then, we discuss how a recent ruling limiting the EPA's power might affect Houston. And Indian composer and violinist L. Subramaniam talks about his concert in Houston this weekend celebrating 75 years of Indian independence.

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