{"id":26862,"date":"2025-10-29T22:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26862\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:45:20","slug":"the-week-in-politics-oct-29-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26862\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in politics (Oct. 29, 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 Thursday\u2019s show: We get insight on the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: Andrea Ball of the Houston Chronicle catches us up on a saga surrounding <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/investigations\/article\/second-baptist-fellowship-church-ed-young-21079311.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">control over Second Baptist Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And we check out a retrospective exhibit of art made by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hillerbrandmagsamen.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand<\/a>, a Houston husband-and-wife team who make visual art about their family\u2019s life, often made with everyday objects from that life, including their children\u2019s toys, their living room furniture, or even their home itself. The exhibit is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fotofest.org\/hillerbrand-magsamen\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on display through Nov. 22<\/a> at Silver Street Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday\u2019s show: We get insight on the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. Also this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6595,18691,18692,4977,56,58,4978,57,66,18693,223,5260,287,1968,18694,18695,5657],"class_list":["post-26862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-art","tag-church-politics","tag-fotofest","tag-full-show","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-mary-magsamen","tag-news","tag-political-roundup","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-second-baptist-church","tag-stephan-hillerbrand","tag-visual-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26862","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=26862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26862\/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=26862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}