{"id":121902,"date":"2026-01-13T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:23:08","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-january-13-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121902\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (January 13, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie and Celeste discuss the 2026 jobs outlook with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerinstitute.org\/expert\/john-w-diamond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Diamond<\/a>, senior director of the Center for Tax and Budget Policy at Rice University&#8217;s Baker Institute for Public Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Then, local radio personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themaddhatta.com\/bio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madd Hatta<\/a> joins us to tell us about the <a href=\"https:\/\/houstontx.gov\/mlk\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLK Unity Parade<\/a>, an event which brings together \u2013 for the first time in 30 years \u2013 two of Houston&#8217;s biggest Martin Luther King Day parades into a single event.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we hear from newly elected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/council\/4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston City Councilmember Alejandra Salinas<\/a>, who responds to questions from Hello Houston listeners, as well as weighs in on the latest city council issues and her plans for the city in this new role.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie and Celeste discuss the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38384,3766,918,2245,2246,56,4626,58,57,34435,15097,66,52941,49484,52943,52944,223],"class_list":["post-121902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alejanda-salinas","tag-city-of-houston","tag-economy","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-job-market","tag-john-diamond","tag-local","tag-madd-hatta","tag-mlk-day","tag-mlk-parade","tag-mlk-unity-parade","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}