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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, newly elected Houston City Council Member Joe Panzarella<\/a> shares his vision for the future of Freedmen’s Town, which focuses on balancing growth and preserving its history while simultaneously giving its residents a stronger voice. <\/p>\n Next, we talk with Ignacio “Nacho” Torras, co-founder of the Genuine Cup<\/a>, who tells us all about this international soccer tournament and how it empowers athletes with intellectual disabilities and autism from all over the world.<\/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, we learn about Combined Arms<\/a>, a Houston-based referral network for veterans, service members, and military families with Mia Garcia, Executive Director of the organization’s Texas Veterans Network.<\/p>\n Plus, Sean Tajipour<\/a>, the founder and editor of Nerdtropolis, calls in to talk to us about what was announced at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and which upcoming projects he’s most excited about.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie Manouse and guest host Michael Adkison<\/a> discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Congressional Democrats vowing to investigate ICE<\/a> if they regain control of Congress, Katy ISD putting new limits on how students use AI<\/a> in the classroom, protesters calling for the release of the witnesses in the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, newly elected Houston City Council Member Joe Panzarella shares…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3766,136738,41333,52433,136654,2245,4103,56,136739,58,57,136740,85644,66,68699,91951,19403,223,1175,19405,731,154,136741],"class_list":["post-388097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-of-houston","tag-combined-arms","tag-district-c","tag-freedmens-town","tag-genuine-cup","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council-member","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-ignacio-torras","tag-joe-panzarella","tag-local","tag-mia-garcia","tag-michael-adkison","tag-nerdtropolis","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-sean-tajipour","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-texas-veterans-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388097","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=388097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388097\/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=388097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}