{"id":393231,"date":"2026-07-31T08:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393231\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:36:14","slug":"hello-houston-july-30-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393231\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston (July 30, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"HelloHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n

On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie Manouse and guest host Deborah Hope<\/a> begin the show by talking about some of today’s top stories, including a Houston man facing federal charges for flying a drone at the World Cup<\/a>, and Texas being home to twenty-one of the world\u2019s biggest companies by revenue. <\/p>\n

Next, we talk with University of Minnesota researchers Kate Adamala<\/a> and Aaron Engelhart<\/a>, who tell us about the synthetic cell they created that can feed, grow, reproduce, and even compete for resources.<\/p>\n

Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n

Then, Houston Public Media reporter Sarah Grunau<\/a> joins us to explain what listeners can expect from the forthcoming final episode of the podcast series, After the Flood<\/a>, which will look at the historic flood that hit the Texas Hill Country earlier this month.<\/p>\n

In the second hour, Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis<\/a> joins us to discuss the Harris County budget proposal, the choices facing Commissioners Court as the county projects a deficit of roughly $180 million, and why he thinks the county should fund the local investigation<\/a> into the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. <\/p>\n

And finally, we hear Hello Houston producer Laura Walker’s conversation with Houstonian playwright Cris Eli Blak<\/a>, who discusses bringing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education to the stage with his new play Challenging Brown.<\/p>\n

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