{"id":237573,"date":"2026-04-06T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237573\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:39:11","slug":"todays-hello-houston-highlights-included-a-proposed-desalination-plant-in-galveston-and-archiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237573\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Hello Houston, highlights included a proposed desalination plant in Galveston and archiving."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" 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=\"634\" height=\"634\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>On Today\u2019s \u201cHello Houston\u201d it was shortened show as we joined NPR and President Trump\u2019s press conference at noon. At the top of the 11am hour, we discussed the top stories of the day including President Trump\u2019s profane social media post on Easter Sunday warning Iran about the Strait of Hormuz.   The story sparked a lot of phones calls to the show. Then, Galveston County reporter for Houston Public Media Julianna Washburn joined us to discuss a proposed desalination plant that is drawing concern from residents. And to close out the hour (and show), archivist with \u201cArchivists of the Houston Area\u201d John Rovell discussed how to preserve our family histories.<\/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 On Today\u2019s \u201cHello Houston\u201d it was shortened show as we joined NPR and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91364,2991,7216,2245,2246,56,58,57,2558],"class_list":{"0":"post-237573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-archiving","9":"tag-desalination-plant","10":"tag-galveston","11":"tag-hello-houston","12":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237573","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=237573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}