Posted on · On Tuesday's Houston Matters: The Louisiana Cajun Navy prepares to help as Tropical Storm Gordon heads for Mississippi. We examines challenges to voter registration in Greater Houston. Democratic Congressional candidate Sylvia Garcia answers listener questions. And Jeff Balke updates us on local sports.
Posted on · Republicans say the registration challenges were nonpartisan, but some of those who were challenged feel otherwise.
Posted on · While most of the state’s efforts are in the early stages, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said her department has been working on securing the county’s database for a while now
Posted on · 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.
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: NASA announces its first crews who will fly on commercial spacecraft. Then, we look back at the Great Houston Flood of 1935. We discuss The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week's news. A Rice professor tells us what she's learned from studying the erupting Kilauea volcano. And a local festival highlights women in jazz.
Posted on · According to the study, 35 percent of all Texas counties did not have a single high school request voter registration forms
Posted on · In Texas, where a voter registration database was targeted by Russian hackers, the question of election security looms large as the 2018 midterm elections approach.
Posted on · A federal judge had set a 45-day deadline for Texas to implement its first system of online voter registration.
Posted on · Currently Texas is not registering people to vote who update their driver’s license online, but they are registering people who show up in-person
Posted on · We discuss cyber security and its role in our election process and learn what one county clerk is doing to ensure that security.
Posted on · Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos has announced a record number of Texas voters are signed up to cast their ballot in this November’s election.
Posted on · It seems as if the twists and turns in the saga over the state’s voter ID law will never end. In the latest development, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos Monday (Sept. 19, 2016) determined the state’s voter education campaign is using misleading language to discourage eligible voters from going to the polls. When the […]
Posted on · On Tuesday (Sept. 20, 2016), the Kinder Institute for Urban Research held a panel discussion on the future of Houston’s pension system. The discussion came just a few days after Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced an “historic” pension reform plan. On this edition of Houston Matters, we discuss the mayor’s plan and what hurdles remain […]
Posted on · We all have little tricks to make our lives in Houston easier. Maybe yours include avoiding crowds by shopping for groceries during a Texans game, or maybe you know a special shortcut around traffic. On this edition of Houston Matters, we share your Houston life hacks. We also hear examples from Viula Torgerson, who writes The […]
Posted on · The Texas House Elections Committee recently considered bills to make Texas the 21st state to allow citizens to register to vote online. The committee left both bills pending after hearing criticism primarily from Harris County, including Tax Assessor-Collector Mike Sullivan, Ed Johnson from the County Clerk’s office, and Alan Vera, who chairs the Ballot Security […]