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Effort Launched To Increase Hispanic Voter Rolls Hispanics are considered a pivotal voting bloc in the November election, but some states have strict requirements that could discourage many of them from voting. Here in Houston, registration initiatives will take place to increase voter turnout. |
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Houston Focused On Controlling Syphilis, HIV In the wake of an outbreak of syphilis in Harris County, health educators are calling on the public to re-focus its attention on sexually-transmitted diseases, and HIV in particular. |
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Small Business Optimism Plunges 15% In September The latest survey from SurePayroll finds a sharp drop in optimism among small business owners in September compared to August. Many owners, including those in Houston, are putting the brakes on hiring. |
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UH Police Make Arrest in Campus Armed Robbery University of Houston police think they may have cracked a crime ring with the arrest of a man they say robbed a UH student at gunpoint last week. The arrest may help solve a string of recent UH robberies. |
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West Nile Virus in Houston Nearly Gone The West Nile Virus outbreak in the Houston region is nearly over. Health officials say they're finding fewer infected mosquitoes. |
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Courts Wrestle With Pipeline, Property Rights Today in a Beaumont courthouse, Judge Tom Rugg will rule on yet another case concerning TransCanada. The pipeline company has been visiting a lot of Texas courthouses lately. At issue again is whether it can take private property in Texas to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. We can expect more pipeline cases as well. Judge Rugg says recent rulings on eminent domain in Texas mean nobody is quite sure where private property rights end, and a company’s right to take property begins. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Daniel Currie Business schools are seeing an uptick in applications for part-time and executive MBA programs. Daniel Currie is Assistant Dean for Graduate and Professional Programs at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. He joins Andrew Schneider on this week's "Bauer Business Focus" to discuss what's behind the trend. |
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Cadillac To Invest $42M To Renovate Houston Dealerships The strength of Houston employment is driving up sales of luxury cars. That's leading Cadillac to invest millions of dollars to upgrade its local dealerships. |
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Young Undocumented Immigrants Apply For Temporary Work Permits It's been around six weeks since the Obama administration started an application process for some young illegal immigrants to get temporary work permits. Latest numbers show more than 82,000 people have applied but that number is far fewer than the 1.7 million estimated to be eligible. |
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Judge Issues Restraining Order Against METRO A Harris County State District Court has granted a temporary restraining order against METRO over a lawsuit involving the light rail system. |
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Trying To Keep Up With Housing For Senior Citizens In Houston Many seniors in Houston and Harris County find it a challenge to live independently because of the rising costs of energy, healthcare and even food. Community leaders welcomed a housing project in north Houston that gives seniors a high quality of life with rent that doesn't exceed their means. |
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Houston Veterans Get VA Housing Bump Houston's continuing efforts to house 100 homeless veterans in 100 days just got a boost. A new V.A. grant will give vets a chance to stay on in their temporary homes. |
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Workplace Political Debate Carries Risks The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is still over a week away. But debates over candidates' strengths and weaknesses are already spilling over into the workplace. |
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Outrage Continues Over Officer Involved Shooting Of Double-Amputee The death of a double-amputee fatally shot last weekend by a Houston police officer is still getting strong reaction from community activists. They're again calling for an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office. |
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Elementary School Gets New Life From 2007 HISD Bond HISD is waiting on the outcome of the November vote on their 1.9 billion dollar bond package. Meanwhile, work using 2007 bond funds is wrapping up at one northeast elementary schools — Theodore Roosevelt Elementary. |
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TxDOT Promises Commuter Relief For One Of Houston's Most Congested Freeways Transportation officials say much-needed work on U.S. Highway 290 is on the fast track — thanks to additional funds identified by the state. Projects on one of the region's most congested highways could be completed 20 years ahead of schedule. |
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Houston Health Officials Declare Syphilis Outbreak Local health officials say there's an outbreak of syphilis in Houston and Harris County. The number of syphilis cases is up 97 percent over the same time period last year. |
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Arts And Culture Pouring Millions Into Greater Houston Economy The arts and culture industry in Houston is thriving, according to a new national survey. Our region even expanded its creative sector over the past five years, despite the recession. |
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Natural Gas Liquids Production To Surge Over Next Two Years With natural gas prices in the cellar, producers are looking to capitalize on higher prices for natural gas liquids, or NGLs. |
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Experts & Lawmakers Hold Hearings To Expand Services To Trafficking Victims Texas lawmakers studying human trafficking came to Houston to collect more testimony on the issue. The meetings will be used to find ways to improve public services for human trafficking victims. |
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Helping Our Heroes: Houston Congressman Writes Bill To Help Veterans Houston's Congressman Al Green recently passed a veteran's bill through the House. It still has to pass the Senate, but the hope is that disabled and low-income veterans will get a little more housing help. |
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VIDEO: Metro Installs 100th Bus Shelter This Year Bus riders on Houston's northside have a new place to get out of the elements as Metro installs its 100th new bus shelter for 2012. It's part of a community partnership designed to keep neighborhoods safe. |
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Congresswoman Promotes National Voter Registration Day Community leaders across the country today are spreading the word about the upcoming election to celebrate National Voter Registration Day. Following the fallout of Texas' failed voter I.D. bill and attempts at redistricting, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee reminded Houstonians of the importance of voting. |
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Texas Drought Killed 301 Million Trees Last year's drought killed 301 million trees. That's the final estimate from the Texas Forest Service after looking at satellite images and ground assessments of forested areas in the state. |
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KUHF Conversations: Brandi Brevard Houston ISD's Apollo 20 program comes under the national spotlight this evening. A new Frontline documentary, Dropout Nation, will take viewers through a semester at Sharpstown High School — a campus with one of the district's highest dropout rates. The school is one of 20 the district is focusing with its Apollo program to increase student success and graduation numbers. KUHF's David Pitman talked with Sharpstown High's campus improvement coordinator Brandi Brevard. |
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Wide Pay Gap Persists Between Texas Women And Men An analysis of the latest Census data finds wide disparity in pay rates between men and women persists across much of Texas. |
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Weekend Flare Burn-Off Not Unusual For Nearby Residents It started yesterday and you can still see what's left of a huge flare burn-off at a chemical plant near the Houston Ship Channel. Columns of black smoke could be seen for miles around. But flares, like the one in southeast Houston, aren't that uncommon for residents who live around the plants. |
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HPD Chief: 'Wait and See' In Police Shooting Of Disabled Man City leaders are asking the community to reserve judgment in the case of a wheelchair-bound man who was shot by a Houston police officer at a group home over the weekend. The mentally challenged man was a double amputee who threatened to kill the officers and his house mates. |
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HISD Holds Meetings To Outline Bond Issue Plans A series of community meetings begins tonight on HISD's plans to modernize schools. The work is proposed under a one-point-nine billion dollar bond issue that goes before voters this November. |
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Expert: Hurricane Season For Houston May Be Over There are still more than two months left in the official Atlantic hurricane season, but one local expert says we're pretty much done when it comes to threats to the Houston area. |
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Homeland Security's Focus On Photographers At Texas Refineries Two weeks ago, a bomb threat led to the evacuation of the UT campus in Austin. There was no bomb. But coming on the heels of violence directed at Americans in the Middle East, the incident raised what has become a perplexing — and costly — security issue for Texas: How to respond to the threat of terrorism. StateImpact reporter Dave Fehling has been investigating this with regard to what’s called "critical infrastructure." |
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M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Will Use Reduced Mortality As New Measure Of Research Success Frustration with the slow pace of cancer research has prompted M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to launch a new effort to speed up the work. The program will target eight deadly cancers using new technology and a new sense of urgency. |
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Political Parties With Two Distinct Philosophies Try To Woe Voters This Election With less than two months before the upcoming election, what factors will determine who occupies the White House? For the candidates, tailoring the message to specific groups of voters is the name of the game. |
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Houston Bucks Slowdown Among Nation's Biggest Metro Areas A new study by the Brookings Institution shows Houston bucked a second-quarter trend that saw the rate of recovery slowing across much of the country. |
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Houston Apartment Dwellers Get A Vegetable Garden It's the time of year when Houstonians get to plant their fall vegetable gardens. This year for the first time — families at south Houston apartment complex will get to grow their own vegetables. |
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Questions About Old Blood May Have Implications for DNA Harris County says it is running out of room to store blood in closed investigations. The district attorney is asking the attorney general to allow courts to order the destruction of old evidence. Some worry that could set a dangerous precedent. |
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Uninsured Houstonians Call On Governor To Reconsider Medicaid Funding When it comes to the highest percentage of people without health insurance, Texas tops the list. The greatest number of Texans live right here in Houston. On Friday morning Houstonians boarded buses to Austin to urge Governor Rick Perry to expand Medicaid coverage. |
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M.D. Anderson Announces New Research Push on 8 Cancers Today M.D. Anderson launched a new effort to accelerate the fight against eight types of cancer. It's called the "Moon Shots Program" and takes its inspiration from the national push to reach the moon in the 1960s. The cancer hospital will re-organize research teams around new technologies and push for discoveries that actually reduce patient deaths. |
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Light Rail Expansion Means Weekend Delays For Drivers Work on Houston's new light rail lines is starting to move into the downtown area, and that means some weekend detours for drivers for the next several months. |
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Houston Dog Rescue Groups Band Together For Weekend Benefit It's a problem that seems to be getting worse in some of Houston's most historic neighborhoods. Abandoned and abused dogs run the streets of the Fifth Ward, the East End and in the so-called "Corridor of Cruelty" near 59 and Little York. Now three groups are banding together to raise money and increase awareness to try to stop the abuse. |
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Houston Accounts For 1-in-10 New Texas Jobs In August Texas led the nation in month-to-month employment growth for August, adding 38,000 new jobs, according to the latest numbers from the Texas Workforce Commission and the U.S. Labor Department. |
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Greater Houston Partnership Announces Support Of Election Bond Proposals The Greater Houston Partnership's board of directors approved resolutions supporting bond proposals of the City of Houston, HISD and Houston Community College. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Arif Momin A recent study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations found roughly one in eight Texans is living without access to a bank account, well above the national average. Arif Momin of EmagineNET Labs joins Andrew Schneider on this week's Bauer Business Focus to discuss the challenges facing "the unbanked." |
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Houstonians More Anxious About Retirement A new survey on retirement readiness by Ameriprise Financial finds Houstonians' optimism about retirement has taken a significant hit. |
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Census: One Quarter Of Houstonians Now Live In Poverty, 38 Percent Are Children New data from the Census Bureau shows that Texans seem to be doing slightly better from a year ago when it comes to measurements such as median income and health coverage. Yet poverty is still creeping up across the state. |
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Busy Southwest Houston Corridor Is Getting A Major Upgrade A popular thoroughfare in southwest Houston is getting a major makeover. Officials have broken ground on a multi-million dollar improvement project on Bellaire Boulevard that's designed to accommodate future growth. |
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New Galveston Beach Police Idea: Armed Lifeguards? This summer, the Galveston seawall introduced the T0urism Oriented Policing program. These are essentially armed lifeguards trained as police officers to keep the peace and promote tourism. This service may be on the brink of expansion, which not everyone is happy about. |
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Houston Gasoline Prices Slowly Go Down Gasoline prices are down slightly in Texas this week. The average price of gasoline dropped two cents from last week — and Texans are paying considerably less than the rest of the nation. |
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KUHF Conversations: The Menil Collection Turns 25 This week, the Menil Collection marks its silver anniversary. For 25 years, the building has welcomed visitors, free of charge, to tour the private collection of 20th century art assembled by John and Dominique de Menil. KUHF's David Pitman stopped by the collection to talk with the museum's Vance Muse, on the significance of the collection’s quarter-century, and to take a closer look at one of the special exhibits to mark the milestone. |
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Harris County Foreclosures Back To Pre-Recession Levels Postings and foreclosures for Harris County are down this month compared to a year ago. |
