On Thursday's show: We mark Constitution Day by asking listeners what amendment they’d add to the nation’s founding document. And retired astronaut Butch Wilmore discusses his career and the nine months he spent on the ISS when his mission was originally only supposed to last eight days.
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Thursday’s forecast: The tropical wave we’ve been watching all week moves into southeast Texas Thursday. This is tropical moisture capable of bringing widespread heavy rain. But we have one big issue preventing how much of us get rain. We have a strong inversion, lid or cap above...
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Good morning, Houston.☀️ We’ve got tropical moisture moving in today, so heavy rain is possible across southeast Texas—but a strong cap could keep storms from developing as much as expected. Also, Harris County commissioners are also set to vote on a budget that could mean higher...
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Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. HOUSTON — As executive director of the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Barbie Brash...
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Episode: 2460 In praise of the City: A fine piece of the natural world. Today, another look at form and function.
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Jacurri Brown can’t help but feel a sense of freedom. He is free to be himself. He is free to test the limits of his game. He is free to be the leader he has wanted to be. And probably the biggest freedom of all is the freedom to be the starter. It hasn’t been easy for the Rice O...
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For generations, Blackfolk have been handed a peculiar measuring stick: Whiteness. Measure your career against white success. Your intelligence against white scholarship. Your beauty against white features. Your speech against white accents. Your spirituality against white religi...
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Robert Hodge wants Black Houstonians to stop just admiring Black art and start owning it. The Third Ward native, multidisciplinary artist and curator, opened his latest solo exhibition, Frequency , on Sept. 12 at Redbud Arts Center’s West Gallery. The show features new paintings ...
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As the midterm elections near, the Texas Senate race is heating up with James Talarico and Ken Paxton’s campaign teams strategizing to garner more voters. While Black voter turnout remains a concern for many, the demographic holds crucial voting power that could affect the race’s...
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Diesel prices have hit a record high in Texas, topping $6 a gallon and putting a significant financial strain on truck drivers and small trucking companies....
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Tierra Walker died after suffering multiple health problems, including seizures, blood clots and dangerously high blood pressure during the first four months of her pregnancy....
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It was a blockbuster PaperCity Philanthropy in Fashion Houston Best Dressed luncheon on Tuesday with records shattered on several levels. More than 800 beautifully dressed women and a sprinkling of men filled the Post Oak Hotel ballroom to its limit — the largest number of guests...
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Georgia police are searching for a man who police say was "infatuated" with a rubber duck in a stranger's hot tub.
