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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 Texas Monthly senior writer Michael Hardy<\/a> in the first hour, who discusses his in-depth article on Lina Hidalgo’s tenure as Harris County Judge and how her leadership style and clashes with local politicians reshaped her time in office.<\/p>\n Then, actor Edward Staudenmayer<\/a> from the cast of the national touring production of The Great Gatsby<\/a> joins us to tell us all about the musical based on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is running at the Hobby Center through Sunday.<\/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 show’s second hour, we discuss possible human trafficking at the upcoming FIFA World Cup games here in Houston with David Reid, founder of the redM Movement<\/a>, an area non-profit that brings together professionals from energy, the arts, science, and media to raise awareness on human trafficking, support survivors, and push for change.<\/p>\n Also, we learn about a community effort to restore one of the oldest AIDS memorials in the nation, the Texas AIDS Memorial Garden<\/a>, with the garden’s architect and founder, R. Michael Lee and Edward D. Pettitt II, president of local non-profit Friends of Columbia Tap.<\/p>\n Plus, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank break down the results of last night’s primary election at the top of each hour, with Houston Public Media reporters Andrew Schneider<\/a> and Michael Adkison<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Texas Monthly senior writer Michael Hardy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32007,22158,1174,294,75743,75744,75745,288,75746,405,2245,4103,56,58,57,6974,404,66,75747,223,287,75748,75749,75750,27,7839,75751,61529],"class_list":{"0":"post-190777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-2026-primary-election","9":"tag-andrew-schneider","10":"tag-arts-culture","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-david-reid","13":"tag-edward-d-pettitt-ii","14":"tag-edward-staudenmayer","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-friends-of-columbia-tap","17":"tag-harris-county","18":"tag-hello-houston","19":"tag-hello-houston-podcast","20":"tag-houston","21":"tag-houston-headlines","22":"tag-houston-news","23":"tag-human-trafficking","24":"tag-lina-hidalgo","25":"tag-local","26":"tag-michael-hardy","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-politics","29":"tag-primary-eleciton","30":"tag-r-michael-lee","31":"tag-redm","32":"tag-texas","33":"tag-texas-18th-congressional-district","34":"tag-texas-aids-memorial-garden","35":"tag-the-great-gatsby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190777","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=190777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190777\/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=190777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}