{"id":269800,"date":"2026-04-28T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:01:09","slug":"county-commissioners-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269800\/","title":{"rendered":"County Commissioners \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-521177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Texperts_Square_HPM_wide.jpg\" alt=\"Texperts\" width=\"962\" height=\"760\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever driven down a freshly paved road, crossed a new bridge, or noticed a sign that says, &#8220;This project is funded by your County Commissioner,&#8221; then you&#8217;ve been made aware of one of the most powerful figures in Texas government, the county commissioner.<\/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>In the audio above, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/class\/political-science\/faculty-and-staff\/professors\/rottinghaus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>, a University of Houston political science professor and co-host of Houston Public Media&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/shows\/party-politics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Party Politics<\/a>, breaks down what exactly Texas county commissioners do and why their power shows up everywhere across Texas, including highways, parks, and a whole lot of signs.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Guest: Adrian Garcia, Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;ve ever driven down a freshly paved road, crossed a new bridge, or noticed a sign that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4951,7050,54048,405,100486,39967,2245,56,58,57,66,287,27,1561,11753],"class_list":["post-269800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-adrian-garcia","tag-brandon-rottinghaus","tag-county-commissioners","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-commissioner-adrian-garcia","tag-harris-county-commissioners","tag-hello-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-government","tag-texperts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269800","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=269800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}