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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 the Harris County reporter for the Houston Chronicle, John Lomax V<\/a>, who discusses what led to the resignation of the Harris County Flood Control District’s director and where its flood control projects currently stand.<\/p>\n Then, we check in with Justin Ballard<\/a>, the Newsroom Meteorologist for the Houston Chronicle, who gives us the latest information on what we can expect from the heavy rainfall expected across Houston and Southeast Texas this week.<\/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 show’s second hour, University of Houston political science professor and co-host of Houston Public Media’s Party Politics<\/a>, Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>, joins us to give us a recap of last week’s 2026 Texas Republican Convention, which was held in Houston.<\/p>\n Plus, Houston Broadway Theatre<\/a> president and founder Tyce Green<\/a> joins us to tell us all about their production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/a>, which is running starting tomorrow, June 16, through July 5 at the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie Manouse and guest host HPM reporter Michael Adkison<\/a> talk about today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the aftermath of the first FIFA World Cup match in Houston<\/a>, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s verbal attacks on James Talarico at the Texas Republican Convention, HPD\u2019s response to a “teen takeover” at Discovery Green over the weekend, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by the Harris County reporter for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[119031,1174,7050,2627,120389,3576,405,2625,14400,2245,4103,56,120390,58,57,120391,41494,66,11838,91951,223,5547,287,27,109476,120392,172],"class_list":["post-337367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-texas-republican-convention","tag-arts-culture","tag-brandon-rottinghaus","tag-flood-mitigation","tag-flood-projects","tag-flooding","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-flood-control-district","tag-heavy-rain","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-broadway-theatre","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-john-lomax-v","tag-justin-ballard","tag-local","tag-local-arts","tag-michael-adkison","tag-news","tag-opera-musical-theater","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame","tag-tyce-green","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337367","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=337367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337367\/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=337367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}