{"id":322986,"date":"2026-06-04T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/322986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:03:14","slug":"corpus-christi-reconsidering-desalination-june-4-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/322986\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi reconsidering desalination (June 4, 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>On Thursday\u2019s show: We get the latest on the City of Corpus Christi\u2019s attempts to delay its looming water crisis.<\/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 revisit the original plans for Corpus Christi\u2019s desalination plant and how it\u2019s supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we learn how community land trusts strive to address both housing affordability and gentrification at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>And Houstonian Kolbi Ferguson tells us he how trains for competitive weightlifting with his sights set on Olympic Games that are still more than two years away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday\u2019s show: We get the latest on the City of Corpus Christi\u2019s attempts to delay its looming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[65584,155,157,156,6710,4977,56,4978,115530,66,223,4979],"class_list":["post-322986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-2028-summer-olympics","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-desalination","tag-full-show","tag-houston","tag-houston-matters","tag-kolbi-ferguson","tag-local","tag-news","tag-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322986","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=322986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322986\/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=322986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}