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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, with the Houston FIFA matches now over, we’re joined again by Chris Canetti<\/a>, President of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Houston Host Committee, who discusses how Houston fared as a host city for this massive global event. <\/p>\n Next, best-selling author Christina Diaz Gonzalez<\/a> joins us to spotlight her new graphic novel, Offside, which follows five very different middle school students on a soccer team that becomes co-ed.<\/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 of the show, the Galveston County reporter for Houston Public Media, Julianna Washburn<\/a>, joins us to give us the latest on Galveston County’s new approved precinct map<\/a>, which some residents are saying doesn\u2019t fairly represent minority communities.<\/p>\n Plus, Marci Kurtz Hoffman, the Assistant Curator of the Rainforest Pyramid and Animal Wellbeing Manager at Moody Gardens, tells us all about their new resident, a female Komodo Dragon named Diah, and the conservation efforts supporting her species’ future.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie Manouse and guest host Houston Public Media reporter Michael Adkison<\/a> discuss today\u2019s top stories at the top of each hour, including the City of Houston\u2019s Office of Inspector General declining to investigate<\/a> Mayor Whitmire\u2019s $60,000 payment to a podcast producer, the Texas Stock Exchange now trading as of today, and the launch of tax-advantaged investment accounts called Trump Accounts.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, with the Houston FIFA matches now over, we’re joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20313,244,13613,71014,128742,18957,67683,7216,12597,126358,128743,2245,4103,56,58,57,10147,109584,128744,66,128745,91951,6416,128746,223,128747,731,154,2279,3692],"class_list":["post-362985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-animals","tag-books-libraries","tag-chris-canetti","tag-christina-diaz-gonzalez","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026-houston","tag-galveston","tag-galveston-county","tag-galveston-county-precinct-3","tag-graphic-novel","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-soccer","tag-julianna-washburn","tag-komodo-dragons","tag-local","tag-marci-kurtz-hoffman","tag-michael-adkison","tag-moody-gardens","tag-moody-gardens-rainforest","tag-news","tag-offside","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-voting","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362985","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=362985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362985\/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=362985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}