{"id":254483,"date":"2026-04-17T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:33:12","slug":"april-17-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254483\/","title":{"rendered":"(April 17, 2026) \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>Houston City Council\u2019s consideration of a repeal of a recent ordinance that updates how the Houston Police Department interacts with ICE has been postponed until next Wednesday. But on Thursday, Harris County Commissioners Court held its own discussion about such policies for county law enforcement. On Friday\u2019s Houston Matters, we learn more from Houston Public Media\u2019s Sarah Grunau. Then, FIFA officials are in town this week to do final inspections and approve the city of Houston&#8217;s preparations for the World Cup. We learn the latest from Houston Public Media&#8217;s Michael Adkison. <\/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 this hour: We break down <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/good-bad-ugly\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/a> of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City Council\u2019s consideration of a repeal of a recent ordinance that updates how the Houston Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37274,4977,96014,4164,96015,56,4626,58,4978,57,2543,5171,66,91951,223,96016,4979,7895,3692],"class_list":{"0":"post-254483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-fifa","9":"tag-full-show","10":"tag-gbu","11":"tag-harris-county-commissioners-court","12":"tag-harris-county-law-enforcement","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-city-council","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-matters","17":"tag-houston-news","18":"tag-houston-police-department","19":"tag-hpd","20":"tag-local","21":"tag-michael-adkison","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-sarah-grunau","24":"tag-shows","25":"tag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","26":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254483","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=254483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254483\/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=254483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}