Posted on · 'Presidents of War' examines the difficulties of being a wartime leader and how over our 200-year-plus history executive war decisions have evolved.
Posted on · Kristie Tingle, a research analyst with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, highlights the need to reform the school finance system and the importance of the 2020 Census.
Posted on · Construction begins in February on an eight-mile stretch of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley, but some against the wall say they’ve been barred from planning meetings.
Posted on · The research conducted by the Center for Public Policy Priorities also found that 671,000 children still don't have medical insurance.
Posted on · Losing a home to a flood is devastating. Does renting make more sense for homeowners in Houston who keep getting flooded?
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: A new study says one in five Texas children lives in poverty. Historian Michael Beschloss discusses his book, Presidents of War. We answer your winter gardening questions. And performers tell us about their show, Midtown Live.
Posted on · Incoming Speaker Dennis Bonnen offers a fresh start, after bad blood between outgoing Speaker Joe Straus and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick helped doom reform efforts in 2017.
Posted on · These are some of the stories Houston Public Media is covering.
Posted on · An 18 year-old high school student was violently killed this week in the River Oaks area.
Posted on · The city itself — skyscrapers, homes and factories — snagged the moist air of Hurricane Harvey and caused more rain to fall. Two new studies detail how humans are making hurricane flooding worse.
Posted on · Former METRO board member Christof Spieler examines that question in his new book, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit.
Posted on · The Houston Matters experts break down the latest political stories with an eye for how they might affect Houston and Texas.
Posted on · Volunteers provided cold weather supplies to people without shelter Tuesday night.
Posted on · The Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs said at the National Press Club there is concern about Tice's well-being, given that it's been six years since he was captured in Syria.
Posted on · The State Board of Education is meeting this week to finalize changes to social studies curriculum, part of an effort that began 10 months ago in response to teacher feedback that the standards included too much material to cover in a school year.