HISD Closes Audit Meetings, Tree Thief, and RIP Megabus

Host Raheel Ramzanali and Dusti Rhodes, comedian, educator, host of the Moth Story Slam in Houston, are getting you ready for the week as they discuss why HISD is making their audit committee meetings private and what it means for transparency, how a local university just set a new record, a bizarre theft which has Houstonians baffled, and more!

Featured stories:

• Houston ISD’s audit committee has held public meetings for more than 17 years. It no longer will.
• University of Houston enrolls record-breaking first year class of more than 6,200 students
• Judge rejects Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down Houston immigrant rights group
• Once-popular Megabus departs Houston and Texas after bankruptcy filing
• 'Who steals trees?' Neighborhood baffled by unusual crime caught on camera in north Houston
• Superintendent Mike Miles Answers YOUR Questions About HISD
• The Moth Story Slam in Houston

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