{"id":123051,"date":"2026-01-14T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:11:17","slug":"the-week-in-politics-jan-14-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123051\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in politics (Jan. 14, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday\u2019s show: Early voting starts in a week for the 18th district Congressional runoff election. We discuss that and other developments in politics in our weekly roundup, from news in Washington surrounding the economy, Iran, and a Justice Department investigation into that fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minnesota.<\/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 this hour: We continue our series looking at the year ahead with a discussion about the issues in health care facing Greater Houston.<\/p>\n<p>And an upcoming series of performances called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/matchouston.org\/events\/2026\/free-rein\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Free Rein<\/a> from the contemporary music organization Musiqa and NobleMotion Dance combines music and dance with bioengineering to explore how creativity works in the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday\u2019s show: Early voting starts in a week for the 18th district Congressional runoff election. We discuss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4977,1562,56,58,4978,57,66,53377,53378,223,53379,5260,287,4979],"class_list":{"0":"post-123051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-full-show","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-matters","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-musiqa","16":"tag-musiqa-houston","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-noblemotion-dance","19":"tag-political-roundup","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-shows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123051","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=123051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}