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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’re joined by Quentin Wiltz<\/a>, the mayor-elect of the City of Pearland, who joins us to talk about his winning campaign, his priorities, and what residents can expect from him in this new role.<\/p>\n Then, we talk with Houston actors and singers, Simone Jasmine Gundy<\/a> and Mark Ivy<\/a>, who are co-hosting this year’s 2026 Tommy Tune Awards<\/a>, celebrating the very best in Houston-area high school musical theatre.<\/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, Andy Uhler<\/a>, a University of Texas energy reporter and host of the podcast Phases and Stages: The Texas Energy Story, discusses what renewable energy means for Texans and how his podcast explains what’s happening in Texas energy.<\/p>\n Plus, our hosts and listeners share the latest things that are taking over all their free time as part of our regular Thursday feature, Current Obsessions.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie Manouse and guest host Brandi Smith<\/a> talk about today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the Houston City Council approving an ordinance cracking down on apartment complexes<\/a> with health and safety issues, health officials monitoring a Hantavirus outbreak, and Republicans moving forward with a plan to fund ICE and Border Patrol for the rest of President Trump’s term.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Quentin Wiltz, the mayor-elect of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[104394,1174,66284,6983,39794,288,6782,2245,4103,56,58,57,66,11838,17759,223,103023,104395,287,1175,103024,8854,104396,12835,15162,104397],"class_list":["post-283812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-andy-uhler","tag-arts-culture","tag-city-of-pearland","tag-current-obsessions","tag-election-2026","tag-elections","tag-energy-environment","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-local-arts","tag-mark-ivy","tag-news","tag-pearland-mayor","tag-phases-and-stages-podcast","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-quentin-wiltz","tag-renewable-energy","tag-simone-jasmine-gundy","tag-texas-energy","tag-theatre-under-the-stars","tag-tommy-tune-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283812","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=283812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283812\/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=283812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}