League Of Women Voters of the Houston Area

BACKGROUNDERS

This educational / research material is not part of a consensus study. A Backgrounder may update or elaborate upon a League of Women Voters of the Houston Area position and can promote a local League position. We have one original from which copies are made as needed. $2.00 each.

Key: GOV=Government, IR=International Relations, HR=Human Resources, VS=Voter Services

Year Type Title
1976 IR Changing Role of U. N.
1976 GOV Backgrounder for Action
1976 GOV Property Taxes in Texas
1976 NR Coal & Lignite Power Generation
1977 GOV Update Transit: The People Mover
1977 HR Rights of Teenagers & Children
1978 HR Accountability in Education
1978 HR School Desegregation in HISD
1978 HR Juvenile Justice
1979 HR School Desegregation-What Can We Do?
1979 HR Urban Crisis
1979 NR Flooding in Harris County
1979 GOV Annexation
1980 NR Air Quality & Department of Energy
1980 HR Urban Affairs: Revitalization
1980 NR Flooding
1981 NR Update on Ground Water
1981 HR Fair Housing
1981 HR Public Housing
1981 GOV Update on City Government/City Council
1981 GOV Annexation
1981 NR Local Control on Environment
1981 GOV Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
1982 HR Perspectives on a Hungry World
1982 HR Status of Women & Texas Law: Domestic Violence
1982 HR Effects of Divorce in Texas
1982 HR Quality of Life in Houston 1982
1982 HR Employment
1983 HR Women Under Texas Law: Domestic Violence
1983 NR Texas Water Plan
1983 NR Toxic Substances
1983 GOV The Texas Legislature
1983 HR The Fourth Ward: Development for Whom?
1984 NR On the Waterfront
1984 HR Employment: Women's Issues
1985 HR Teacher Preparation & Competency
1985 GOV Competitive Bidding/City of Houston
1986 HR Indigent Health Care in Harris County
1986 HR Help for the Hungry & Homeless
1986 NR An Overview of Houston Area Parks
1990 GOV Why Americans Don't Vote
1990 HR Corporal Punishment Alternatives
1990 GOV Comprehensive Planning
1992 IR International Trade
1992 NR Promises & Perils of Recycling
1992 HR Children & Firearms: the Deadly Attraction
1993 HR Labor Unions/Minimum Wage
1993 HR Family Secrets - Children in Danger
1994 HR Children in Court: Helping or Hurting?
1995 NR The Clean Air Act and You
1995 GOV Immigration: U.S. Policy and Practice
2000 NR Air Quality Issues in the Houston-Galveston Area

Updated: Mon, Aug 28, 2006