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01/30/2025

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytRescue workers in Washington, D.C., have launched a massive recovery operation in the Potomac Riv...

10/01/2024

08/30/2024

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The “Party of Lincoln,” as Republicans call themselves, seems intent on undermining just about everything President Abraham Lincoln lived and died for.

12/30/2023

December 29th, 2023

Tune in to The Prison Show tonight from 9-11 pm Central on 90.1 FM and FM HD1 KPFT Houston streaming on www.kpft.org and right here on FB Live. Call 713-526-5738 option 2 after 9:45 pm for shout outs!

The Prison Show is Produced by David Collingsworth and hosted by Dani Allen

Tonight’s guests:
- Nicole Hutchison Moore - founder, and CEO of the Rusty Diamond Network
- Dr. Amite Dominick - President and Founder at Texas Prisons Community Advocates
- Allison Mathis –Criminal Defense Attorney aka Criminal Defendrix
- Death Row Angels – Dani Allen and Linda Snyder

9 pm – Opening – 5 minutes – 9:05 pm
9:05 pm –Nicole – 10 minutes – 9:15 pm
9:15 pm – Amite– 10 minutes – 9: 25 pm
9:25 pm – Allison – 15 min – 9:40 pm
9:40 pm – Angels – 15 minutes – 9:55 pm
9:55 pm – Break Song – 5 minutes – 10 pm
10 pm - Station ID/Cohen/callers – 55 minutes – 10:55 pm
10:55 pm – David closing – 2 min – 10:57 pm
10:57 pm - outro by Charlie and the Regrets – 3 min – 11 pm
11 pm – Cnvrge

– Call 713-526-5738 option 2 after 9:45 pm for shout outs!

09/17/2023

HEAR YE, HEAR YE! Don’t forget to tune into this week’s installment of ‘Blues In Hi-Fi’! Make sure to catch us every Sunday 5-7:00 PM CT 90.1 FM KPFT Houston! It’s your Gulf Coast Blues Radio Show! You can stream us live or in the archive, as well at kpft.org!

This week we hear from Mighty Joe Young, The Holmes Brothers, Clarence Carter, Ron Holden & The Thunderbirds, Swamp Dogg, The Impressions, Roy Head, The Golden Harmoneers, Walter Vaughn, James Hunter, and MUCH MORE!

Roll call is at 5:00 PM CT! Be there or be square!

Shinyribs Mike Stinson Tiffany Ritter Marlo Blue Susan Darrow KPFT Border Radio with Susan

03/09/2023

The volunteer's attorney said the law goes against his right of free speech.

03/05/2023

The City of Houston sent out a notice this week that public feedings outside the Downtown Library near City Hall are prohibited and should instead be done at 61 Riesner Street, a location just west of downtown. 

03/05/2023

A Dutch study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that greed may be good for our pockets but comes at a psychological cost. The findings revealed that greedy people tended to have higher household incomes but lower life satisfaction. ...

02/16/2023

Discussions of race or s*x, or just the wrong vibes, are all it takes for a book to number among the 801 bannings in Texas schools this year.

02/01/2023

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11/24/2022

“The average annual Texas surface temperature in 2036 is expected to be 3.0°F warmer than the 1950-1999 average and 1.8°F warmer than the 1991-2020 average,” a 2021 report from the Texas state climatologist found. “The number of 100-degree days at typical stations is expected to nearly double by 2036 compared to 2001-2020, with a higher frequency of 100-degree days in urban areas.”

Texas, in fact, is home to all of the Great Plains’ top 10 worst-rated counties — Cameron, Galveston, Willacy, Kleberg, Refugio, Nueces, Pecos, Starr, Webb and Harris — in terms of overall climate change risks, according to information provided by data analytics firm the Rhodium Group and a 2020 analysis of counties in the lower 48 states published by ProPublica and the New York Times. And dozens of other Texas counties aren’t far behind on that list.

In no small part that’s because of two factors, the state’s latitude and its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. The Rhodium rankings were based on six categories related to climate change: heat stress, the combination of heat and humidity (wet bulb), crop loss, sea level rise, very large fires and overall likely economic damages.

As the negative consequences of rising global temperatures due to humankind’s relentless burning of fossil fuels become more apparent across the country, anxiety over finding a place to live safe from the ravages of climate change has also been on the rise.

11/04/2022

This Monday, voters made their way through canvassers crowding the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center on Gray, to join a line that wrapped around the building. There was no sign of the federal monitors that officials in Houston and Harris County had been asked to be present. According to Roxanne Wern...

09/09/2022

Scott Taylor never got to move on from COVID-19. The analysis was based on data from 20 major U.S. hospital systems, including more than 1.3 million adults with a COVID diagnosis and 19,000 with a long COVID diagnosis between May 2020 and July 2022.

09/09/2022

Researchers also say that settlers pushed most tribal nations onto land with higher climate risks

07/21/2022

The Houston Independent School District, the state’s largest, is short nearly 1,000 teachers with the first day of school roughly a month away.