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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, Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis<\/a> joins us in the show’s first hour to discuss a new policy that gives county employees a path to organize and advocate for better pay and working conditions.<\/p>\n Then, Main Street Theater<\/a>‘s Founding Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden joins us to talk about their production of playwright Tom Stoppard’s final play Leopoldstadt<\/a>, and the theater\u2019s 50th season.<\/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 the impending ban on all smokable hemp products under new rules from the Texas Department of State Health Services, with Stephen Simpson<\/a>, the mental health reporter for the Texas Tribune, who tells us everything about what these new regulations entail.<\/p>\n Plus, we also chat with Houston-native actress DeQuina Moore<\/a>, who tells us all about the national tour of the hit Broadway musical Some Like It Hot<\/a>, currently playing at the Hobby Center through Sunday.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the University of Houston’s defeat<\/a> by Illinois in a Sweet Sixteen matchup, which they discuss with Houston Public Media\u2019s Senior Director of Digital Operations, Mark Norris<\/a>, an arrest made in connection with the more than three decades-long \u2018Lovers Lane’ murders<\/a>, and the dozens of \u2018No Kings’ protests<\/a> set to take place in Houston this weekend.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis joins us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85167,1174,87020,405,86965,2245,4103,27604,56,58,57,16662,83268,66,33007,64786,223,5547,287,86966,19691,87021,86967,27,27610,85170],"class_list":["post-223736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-sweet-sixteen","tag-arts-culture","tag-dequina-moore","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-commissioner","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-hemp","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-labor-unions","tag-leopoldstadt","tag-local","tag-main-street-theater","tag-mark-norris","tag-news","tag-opera-musical-theater","tag-politics","tag-rebecca-greene-udden","tag-rodney-ellis","tag-some-like-it-hot","tag-stephen-simpson","tag-texas","tag-texas-hemp-industry","tag-uh-mens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223736","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=223736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223736\/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=223736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}