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Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n
On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Bishop James Dixon II<\/a>, president of the NAACP Houston<\/a> chapter in the show’s first hour, who discusses the current issues affecting the organization, as well as his commitment to civil rights and community empowerment.<\/p>\n Also, at the end of the first hour, we learn all about the German cultural center, the Goethe-Institut<\/a>, with Sandy Schwalen, program coordinator of the institute’s Houston branch.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n In the second hour of the show, we talk with Marcos Velez<\/a>, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who tells us more about his campaign, the issues driving his run, and his vision for the future of the state.<\/p>\n Plus, we also hear from Mark Norris<\/a>, Senior Director of Digital Operations at Houston Public Media, who gives us a live report from the 2026 Winter Olympics taking place in Italy.<\/p>\n And, as always, Frank and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Harris County residents filing a lawsuit to halt immigration enforcement raids<\/a> in Houston, University of Houston faculty being asked to sign an agreement to \u201cnot indoctrinate\u201d students<\/a>, and we recap last night’s Super Bowl and its halftime show.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Bishop James Dixon II, president of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2919,288,64782,2245,4103,56,58,57,64783,64784,66,64785,64786,43106,223,287,64787,154,27,62737],"class_list":{"0":"post-157384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-civil-rights","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-goethe-institut","11":"tag-hello-houston","12":"tag-hello-houston-podcast","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-james-dixon-ii","17":"tag-lieutenant-governors-race","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-marcos-velez","20":"tag-mark-norris","21":"tag-naacp-houston","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-sandy-schwalen","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-texas","27":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157384","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=157384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}