{"id":24748,"date":"2025-10-28T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:02:11","slug":"burden-of-rising-electricity-bills-oct-28-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24748\/","title":{"rendered":"Burden of rising electricity bills (Oct. 28, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s show: Think your electricity bill has been high lately? You might be surprised by how much some of your fellow Texans say they&#8217;re being charged for power, month to month. We examine the findings from a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2025\/october\/10272025-texas-trends-survey-energy-2025.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new survey<\/a> on the financial strain energy bills are putting on Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: Texas Monthly writer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/contributors\/skip-hollandsworth\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Skip Hollandsworth<\/a> discusses some noteworthy crimes committed in Texas by women. It&#8217;s the subject of his latest book, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/she-kills-skip-hollandsworth?variant=43733608464418\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">She Kills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Houston native <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dianeravitch.net\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Diane Ravitch<\/a> was once a firm proponent of standardized testing and school choice, and she was a key figure in President George W. Bush\u2019s No Child Left Behind policies \u2014 until she changed her mind. We find out why, which she addresses in her book, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/an-education\/9780231563161\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">An Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And we meet the team behind <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lofipuppets\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lo-fi puppets + stuff<\/a>, who make puppets and practice the art of puppetry in various forms.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday\u2019s show: Think your electricity bill has been high lately? You might be surprised by how much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17577,163,8239,17578,4977,56,58,4978,57,17579,66,223,17580,17581,17582,4379,17583,17584,17585],"class_list":{"0":"post-24748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-diane-ravitch","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-electricity-bills","12":"tag-full-show","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-matters","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-lo-fi-puppets-stuff","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-no-child-left-behind","21":"tag-puppetry","22":"tag-puppets","23":"tag-school-choice","24":"tag-she-kills","25":"tag-skip-hollandsworth","26":"tag-standardized-testing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748","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=24748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}