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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 talk with Ethan Chorin<\/a>, the founder & CEO of Red Sea Futures and a former U.S. diplomat posted to Libya and the UAE, who joins us to share his thoughts on the latest developments in the Iran war.<\/p>\n Then, we learn all about Galveston\u2019s upcoming FeatherFest Birding & Nature Photo Festival<\/a>, an annual birding event held during the spring migration, with Eowyn Johnson, Executive Director of the Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council.<\/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, we’re joined by Houston City Council Member Abbie Kamin<\/a>, representing District C, who discusses Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s threat to pull $110 million in city funding<\/a> over the passing of a new ordinance intended to cut back on coordination between HPD and ICE.<\/p>\n Plus, Celeste Diaz Schurman and guest host Doug Miller<\/a> discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the Houston City Council considering rescinding the recently approved ordinance<\/a> intended to cut back on coordination between HPD and ICE, the Texas State Board of Education’s new required reading list, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we talk with Ethan Chorin, the founder & CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4105,95216,95217,95218,3766,95219,95220,64,95221,7216,15394,2245,4103,56,4626,58,57,2543,4104,74718,66,4090,223,287,6956],"class_list":{"0":"post-251416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-abbie-kamin","9":"tag-bird-migration","10":"tag-bird-migration-texas","11":"tag-bird-spring-migration","12":"tag-city-of-houston","13":"tag-eowyn-johnson","14":"tag-ethan-chorin","15":"tag-events","16":"tag-featherfest","17":"tag-galveston","18":"tag-galveston-island","19":"tag-hello-houston","20":"tag-hello-houston-podcast","21":"tag-houston","22":"tag-houston-city-council","23":"tag-houston-headlines","24":"tag-houston-news","25":"tag-houston-police-department","26":"tag-international","27":"tag-iran-war","28":"tag-local","29":"tag-nature","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-politics","32":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251416","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=251416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251416\/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=251416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}