{"id":407681,"date":"2026-08-15T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:34:09","slug":"this-week-in-texas-senator-ted-cruz-harris-county-budget-flock-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407681\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Texas: Senator Ted Cruz, Harris County Budget, Flock Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Abrahams Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15664086_KTRK-Tom-Abrahams-Bio-2025-IMG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 15, 2026 10:55PM<\/p>\n<p>This Week in Texas, we talk with Senator Ted Cruz about college athletics and Harris County officials on the county&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; This Week in Texas, our conversation with Senator Ted Cruz about college athletics and his bipartisan bill that would change the sports landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Plus, interviews with Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones about the county&#8217;s spending shortfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, we talk about Flock cameras with our panel of political insiders and head to class for the first day of vouchers in Texas schools, This Week in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 15, 2026 10:55PM This Week in Texas, we talk with Senator Ted Cruz about college athletics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[142587,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-407681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-142587","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407681","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=407681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}