{"id":227468,"date":"2026-03-30T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:32:08","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-march-30-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/227468\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (March 30, 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 break down a newly filed bill aimed at strengthening reviews of antitrust cases with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/shows\/hello-houston\/2026\/03\/30\/547461\/hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-march-30-2026\/Darren%20Bush\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Bush<\/a>, a professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, who also explains why he&#8217;s supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we&#8217;re joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstongrandopera.org\/artists\/khori-dastoor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khori Dastoor<\/a>, the General Director and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstongrandopera.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Grand Opera<\/a>, who tells us about their recently announced 2026 \u2013 27 Season, which includes classics and celebrated works from world-famous composers.<\/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>Also, we talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/people\/perla-trevizo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perla Trevizo<\/a>, a reporter with the ProPublica\u2013Texas Tribune investigative unit, who discusses a new investigation into how federal prosecutors are handling immigration cases at the southern border and how this is crowding local courts.<\/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 break down a newly filed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[88023,1174,2113,88024,910,88026,2245,2246,56,11001,58,57,1724,23756,17638,66,11838,223,2510,5547,88028,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-227468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-antitrust-laws","9":"tag-arts-culture","10":"tag-border-immigration","11":"tag-border-and-immigration","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-darren-bush","14":"tag-hello-houston","15":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-houston-grand-opera","18":"tag-houston-headlines","19":"tag-houston-news","20":"tag-immigration","21":"tag-khori-dastoor","22":"tag-live-nation","23":"tag-local","24":"tag-local-arts","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-opera","27":"tag-opera-musical-theater","28":"tag-perla-trevizo","29":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227468","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=227468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227468\/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=227468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}