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Nov 15, 2024 | 
einnews.com | Jessica S. Swenson
Brenson Advisory Is Open to New Clients: Exclusive Opportunity for Healthcare Providers Brenson Advisory offers hands-on consulting and angel investments for service-driven professionals ready to scale to $1M+ annual income.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Jack Williams |Jessica S. Swenson
The Houston housing market rebounded from a prolonged slump in November, with sales rising for the first time in 19 months. The Houston Association of Realtors reported sales were up 4.9% last month, the first increase since March of 2022. It is the first real glimmer of hope for a market that has suffered with high mortgage rates, low inventory and high home prices. Mortgage rates have eased slightly over the past month, a factor in the latest bump in sales.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Russell Lewis |Jessica S. Swenson |John H. Lienhard
Frank Borman, who commanded two early NASA missions including the first to orbit the moon, has died at age 95. In a statement, NASA said Borman died Nov. 7 in Billings, Mont. after a stroke. His death comes a week after fellow Apollo astronaut, Ken Mattingly, died. NASA’s oldest living astronaut, Borman was best known for his no-nonsense demeanor and said he cared more about beating the Soviet Union in the space race than personal glory.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Jessica S. Swenson |Sarah Grunau |Michael Hagerty |Ariel Worthy
As the holiday season approaches, residents will be able to drop off their Halloween pumpkins this week as the City of Houston holds its third annual Pumpkin Composting Drop-off event. At-Large Council Member, Sallie Alcorn, said the city is happy to take in Houstonian's discarded pumpkins and fillings to recycle into compost.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Adam Zuvanich |Natalie Weber |Sarah Grunau |Jessica S. Swenson
The Hindu holiday of Diwali, known as the festival of lights, is celebrated by more than 1 billion people across the world. The Houston area offers an array of celebratory events before, on and after Diwali, which this year falls on Nov. 12 and marks the beginning of the Hindu new year. Diwali symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil, commemorating the exiled Lord Rama’s killing of the demon king Ravana.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Joshua Zinn |Michael Hagerty |Jessica S. Swenson |John H. Lienhard
Amid the U.S. Civil War, as men took to the battlefield, two women set out to help the war effort from home… behind enemy lines in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Elizabeth Van Lew was a member of high society in Richmond who vehemently opposed slavery and the secession from the United States, and Mary Jane Bowser was an educated slave in the Van Lew household.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Michael Hagerty |Jessica S. Swenson |Adam Zuvanich
Houston Matters begins at 9 a.m. CT on 88.7FM or listen online. Join the discussion at 713-440-8870, [email protected] or @HoustonMatters. On Friday’s show: A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is headed the Lone Star state's way on Saturday. We learn who will be able to see it, how to do so safely, and what we'll be able to see here in the Bayou City.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Jessica S. Swenson |John H. Lienhard |Michael Hagerty
Houston-area residents will be able to view an annular solar eclipse, for the first time since 2017, at around 11:50 a.m. Saturday. Matthew Wilkinson, an orbital mechanic at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, said it will be the first of a rare back-to-back eclipse viewing opportunity. He said another annular solar eclipse, which happens when the moon is positioned between the sun and Earth and casts a shadow on the planet, is coming in April 2024.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Adam Zuvanich |Jessica S. Swenson |Nicolas A. Pinto |Briana Williams
It's October in Houston, which means the weather should start cooling off and it's time to come up with costumes and decorate for Halloween. Families can pick out pumpkins, play outdoors and take plenty of fall photos at a variety of pumpkin patches around the Houston region. Some serve as church fundraisers and others coincide with annual fall festivals that feature several other kid-friendly activities and attractions.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
houstonpublicmedia.org | Jessica S. Swenson |Troy Schulze |Joshua Fechter |Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
With Texas retailers' concern for organized retail theft activity increasing, the Texas Comptroller has organized a task force of 10 members to analyze and manage the growing issue. Houston has ranked fourth in the country for organized retail theft activity since 2021, and organized retail crime in Texas as a whole has risen to 26.5% since the end of the pandemic.
