Parking Ticket Scam, New Light Rail, & Oil Prices Plummeting
Episode description
It’s Friday so we’re breaking down the biggest stories in Houston. Host Raheel Ramzanali and Pulitzer Prize finalist Evan Mintz talk about how a big drop in oil prices could threaten our economy, the latest fight between the city of Houston and Harris County, and the latest scam you need to watch out for!
Dive deeper into the stories we talked about on today’s show:
- Officials urge Houston drivers to watch out for scam parking tickets
- Baylor College of Medicine lays off 122 employees as Trump funding cuts loom
- MD Anderson cuts spending, pauses some hiring after multi-million dollar budget shortfall
- A third of eligible Houston employees accept buyout package, saving city $11M this fiscal year
- Texas Senate passes bill to limit Harris County’s authority over millions of surplus toll road funds
- Houston-Galveston Area Council studying light rail, bus route feasibility in Fort Bend County
- Third-Party Permitting Bill & Bill for Stairway Requirements
- How Houston became one of America's biggest Vietnamese hubs, 50 years after the fall of Saigon
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