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Smuggling Drugs Into Jail, HISD Budget Concerns, and Top Artists

Smuggling Drugs Into Jail, HISD Budget Concerns, and Top Artists

FromCity Cast Houston


Smuggling Drugs Into Jail, HISD Budget Concerns, and Top Artists

FromCity Cast Houston

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Social media is flooded with the most streamed musicians of the year, but who did we love as a city? Plus, an anchor in midtown is closing and that could mean good things for the rest of downtown. Houston Landing’s education reporter Asher Lehrer-Small and Pulitzer Prize finalist Evan Mintz join host Raheel Ramzanali to recap those stories and more.

Featured stories:

Houston’s most streamed artists


HISD’s enrollment numbers could mean budget issues

Greyhound station in Midtown is closing


Early voting numbers are slow 

Detention officer arrested 

Rice statue gets moved 

Bush Airport named best for layovers 

Keith Lee is in Houston 


Chron endorsement for at-large 2 and more on that story.


Chron story on Roy Morales, who is running for at-large 4, which notes he had been fired from his job. 


2013 endorsement, which notes Morales' weird conspiracy theories.


Chron's endorsement list. 



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Released:
Dec 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Food, culture, news and nature in the sweaty Bayou City. Join Host Lisa Gray and the City Cast Houston team as we celebrate and interrogate this sprawling place with our favorite journalists, thinkers, leaders, neighbors and gadflies. Learn more and subscribe to our daily morning newsletter at houston.citycast.fm.