{"id":405237,"date":"2026-08-13T06:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:14:19","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-august-12-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405237\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (August 12, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie and guest host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hollandvavra\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holland Vavra<\/a> talk with Houston native and comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cristinososa\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cris Sosa<\/a>, who shares his experience bringing his comedy to a national stage as a contestant on America&#8217;s Got Talent.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/cjo.harriscountytx.gov\/About\/Judge-Hidalgo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo<\/a>, who gives us her response to Harris County Commissioners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/harris-county\/2026\/08\/06\/558767\/lina-hidalgo-harris-county-tax-rate-increase-proposal-early-education-childcare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rejecting her proposed tax-rate increase<\/a> to fund early childcare programs for a second time.<\/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>Plus, Houston real estate expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hgtv.com\/profiles\/talent\/noel-collier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noel Collier<\/a> tells us all about her new HGTV series, Extreme Buyers Club, her experience helping buyers with unconventional wish lists, and what advice she would currently give to a seller.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie and guest host Holland Vavra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45978,141954,141955,405,36176,2245,2246,60220,141956,3222,56,84674,58,57,404,66,223,134850,287,1175,141957],"class_list":["post-405237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-cris-sosa","tag-extreme-buyers-club","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-judge-lina-hidalgo","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-hgtv","tag-holland-vavra","tag-housing","tag-houston","tag-houston-comedian","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lina-hidalgo","tag-local","tag-news","tag-noel-collier","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-proposed-tax-rate-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405237","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=405237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}