{"id":200519,"date":"2026-03-11T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200519\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:50:08","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-march-11-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200519\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (March 11, 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\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d we hear highlights from our second live show at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodeohouston.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo<\/a>, including our conversation with Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who discusses how the city and county work with each other to put this large event together every year, and the current issues affecting the city of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we hear from Kenneth Lewis, Chairman of the HLSR&#8217;s Commercial Exhibits Committee, who tells us about the rodeo&#8217;s food vendors, along with the winners of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodeohouston.com\/gold-buckle-foodie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Buckle Foodie Awards<\/a>, Joey Rousso of Rousso\u2019s Fat Bacon, and Mark Zable of Darlin\u2019s Fried Chicken, who tell us all about their award-winning food creations.<\/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>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d we hear highlights from our second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[72512,3766,64,49,76260,2245,2246,56,58,28002,5760,3771,57,30496,79060,3743,73207,66,79062,223,70040],"class_list":{"0":"post-200519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-2026-houston-rodeo","9":"tag-city-of-houston","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-gold-buckle-foodie-awards","13":"tag-hello-houston","14":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-headlines","17":"tag-houston-livestock-show-and-rodeo","18":"tag-houston-mayor","19":"tag-houston-mayor-john-whitmire","20":"tag-houston-news","21":"tag-houston-rodeo","22":"tag-joey-rousso","23":"tag-john-whitmire","24":"tag-kenneth-lewis","25":"tag-local","26":"tag-mark-zable","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-rodeo-food"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200519","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=200519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200519\/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=200519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}