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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 hear Celeste’s interview with Ben Lefebvre<\/a>, Deputy Energy Editor at Politico, whom she spoke with at the annual energy conference CERAWeek by S&P Global<\/a> taking place in Houston this week. They discuss the latest issues impacting the energy industry.<\/p>\n Also, sports analyst Charlie Pallilo<\/a> breaks down today’s big Houston sports day, which includes the University of Houston men’s basketball team in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA March Madness tournament and opening day for the Houston Astros.<\/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 hear another of Celeste’s interviews from the CERAWeek energy conference, in which she talks with Jay Timmons<\/a>, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, about how complex manufacturing policy applies to our everyday life.<\/p>\n Plus, our hosts and listeners share the latest things that are taking over all their free time as part of our regular Thursday feature, Current Obsessions.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank talk about today’s top headlines at the top of each hour, including the state of Texas requiring proof of legal immigration status to obtain professional licenses and Houston Public Media reporter Bianca Seward<\/a> gives us the latest on the long security lines<\/a> at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we hear Celeste’s interview with Ben Lefebvre, Deputy Energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85167,86406,4046,82950,86407,6983,451,6782,86408,2245,4103,56,5126,5513,58,57,37117,73026,66,48876,223,1175,154,84428,85170,77791],"class_list":["post-222010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-sweet-sixteen","tag-ben-lefebvre","tag-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-ceraweek","tag-charlie-pallilo","tag-current-obsessions","tag-energy","tag-energy-environment","tag-energy-conference","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-airport","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-sports","tag-jay-timmons","tag-local","tag-march-madness","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-sports","tag-sweet-sixteen","tag-uh-mens-basketball","tag-wait-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222010","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=222010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222010\/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=222010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}