Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie Manouse and guest host Deborah Hope begin the show by talking about some of today’s top stories, including a Houston man facing federal charges for flying a drone at the World Cup, and Texas being home to twenty-one of the world’s biggest companies by revenue.
Next, we talk with University of Minnesota researchers Kate Adamala and Aaron Engelhart, who tell us about the synthetic cell they created that can feed, grow, reproduce, and even compete for resources.
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Then, Houston Public Media reporter Sarah Grunau joins us to explain what listeners can expect from the forthcoming final episode of the podcast series, After the Flood, which will look at the historic flood that hit the Texas Hill Country earlier this month.
In the second hour, Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis joins us to discuss the Harris County budget proposal, the choices facing Commissioners Court as the county projects a deficit of roughly $180 million, and why he thinks the county should fund the local investigation into the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
And finally, we hear Hello Houston producer Laura Walker’s conversation with Houstonian playwright Cris Eli Blak, who discusses bringing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education to the stage with his new play Challenging Brown.