{"id":270247,"date":"2026-04-28T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:34:10","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-april-28-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270247\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (April 28, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/childrenatrisk.org\/staff\/kim-kofron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Kofron<\/a>, Director of Early Childhood Education at <a href=\"https:\/\/childrenatrisk.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Children at Risk<\/a>, breaks down their new report on &#8220;childcare deserts&#8221; across Texas, and what it means for families, providers, and policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silambamhouston.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silambam Houston<\/a> founder and Executive Artistic Director, Dr. Lavanya Rajagopalan, who tells us more about the arts organization and its original production <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehobbycenter.org\/events\/kavya-poetry-in-motion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K\u0101vya: Poetry in Motion<\/a>, which will be performed at the Hobby Center on Friday, May 1.<\/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, we learn about how we can protect our long-term brain health with Dr. George Santos, a psychiatrist and member physician with the Harris County Medical Society, who also discusses new findings that suggest high levels of screen time may raise risks of cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d Kim Kofron, Director of Early Childhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,42503,10865,7249,100556,7250,918,86687,100557,2940,2245,2246,56,58,57,100558,43148,100559,66,11838,223,21170,100561],"class_list":["post-270247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-brain-health","tag-childcare","tag-childcare-deserts","tag-childcare-in-texas","tag-children-at-risk","tag-economy","tag-george-santos","tag-harris-county-medical-society","tag-health-science","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-kavya-poetry-in-motion","tag-kim-kofron","tag-lavanya-rajagopalan","tag-local","tag-local-arts","tag-news","tag-screen-time","tag-silambam-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270247","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=270247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}