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On Thursday’s show: Houston City Council is considering a measure that would effectively prohibit homeless people from sidewalks in a sprawling area around a new homeless services center in the East Downtown neighborhood. The addition of a new zone to the so-called civility ordinance across the Greater East End would mark the third expansion of the rule over the past year. We get the latest details from Houston Public Media’s Dominic Anthony Walsh .

Also this hour: Attorney and law professor Joyce Vance talks about the erosion of democratic norms and how citizens can p

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