SHOW AUDIO: Link is usually posted within about 72 hours of show broadcast. We take callers during this show at 713-526-5738.

TOPICS:  SUPPORT KPFT!  Insurance: What you need to know now and in the future.

(Part 2 of the Flood Control discussion is now tentatively scheduled for September 25th)

GUEST: 

Mark Hanna, Manager, Public Relations & Membership
Insurance Council of Texas
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2801 South IH 35
Austin, Texas 78741-5523
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Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show  airing live every Monday night from 9-10 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My engineer is Bob Gartner.

Listen live on the radio or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.)

For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:

• You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
  

  Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 7, 2015)

• An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.

SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:

“Buying insurance is either the stupidest thing you ever bought or the smartest thing you ever did. Time will tell.” ~ Michael R Honig, ca. 1997 

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SHOW AUDIO: Link is usually posted within about 72 hours of show broadcast. We take callers during this show at 713-526-5738.

TOPICS:  SUPPORT KPFT!  PART 1: Flooding and flood control: Understanding how precipitation and flooding are described by the technical community, and what variables matter. (Part 2 is tentatively scheduled for September 18^th: What can we do about it?)

GUEST: Dr. Francisco Olivera is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, member and former Associate Director of the GeoSpatial Science, Applications and Technologies Center, and member of the Institute for Sustainable Communities at Texas A&M University. He teaches classes on Urban Stormwater management and Geographic Information Systems. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on the assessment and mapping of flood damage and risk in the most prestigious journals in the field.

Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show  airing live every Monday night from 9-10 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My engineer is Bob Gartner.

Listen live on the radio or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.)

For the purposes of this show, I operate on two mottoes:

• You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
  

  Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 7, 2015)

• An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.

SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:

“There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading. In poor countries biodiversity is being nickel-and-dimed to death; in rich countries it is being billion-dollared to death.” ~ Donella H. Meadows is an adjunct professor of environmental and policy studies at Dartmouth College, (from her article “Preserving Biodiversity Is Protecting Life on Earth : Environment: Why care about red squirrels, tundra, blue beetles or little bluestem grasses? Three reasons, which boil down to self-interest.”, Los Angeles Times May 13, 1990)

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