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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 today marking International Overdose Awareness Day, Dr. Doug Thornton<\/a>, Director of the Prescription Drug Misuse Education and Research Center, explains why overdose deaths are declining across the country and what we’re seeing in Texas. <\/p>\n Next, Dr. Megan Covington<\/a>, a Canine Behavior Specialist and founder of The Pit Bull Doctor, breaks down what dogs can teach us about emotional regulation, relationships, and meaningful change.<\/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, we\u2019re joined by Harrison Guy<\/a>, the founder and artistic director of Urban Souls Dance Company, who talks to us about how he’s honoring the legacy of Prairie View A&M University through performance as the university celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, and why telling these stories through art matters.<\/p>\n Plus, we also talk with Matthew Tabor, the art director and owner of the Houston-based design studio Letterset, who tells us about his work designing logos for several Houston area restaurants and small businesses.<\/p>\n And, as always, our hosts Tessa Barrera and Ernie Manouse discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the latest on the developing tropical disturbance<\/a> in the Gulf, which they discuss with Houston Chronicle newsroom meteorologist Justin Ballard<\/a>, Gov. Abbot ordering state agencies to pause the funding of Flock cameras, President Trump announcing plans to create a space-focused academy<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, with today marking International Overdose Awareness Day, Dr. Doug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[244,1174,27905,6569,146906,246,146907,124140,163,71069,2940,2245,4103,56,58,57,146908,41494,66,146909,123178,146910,146911,223,68428,5351,146912,146913,146914,119962,12371,71563,5657,172],"class_list":["post-422159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-animals","tag-arts-culture","tag-arts-culture-education","tag-dance","tag-dog-behavior","tag-dogs","tag-doug-thornton","tag-drug-overdose","tag-education","tag-harrison-guy","tag-health-science","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-international-overdose-awareness-day","tag-justin-ballard","tag-local","tag-logo-design","tag-logos","tag-matthew-tabor","tag-megan-covington","tag-news","tag-overdose","tag-performing-arts","tag-prairie-view-am-university","tag-sign-making","tag-the-pit-bull-doctor","tag-tropical-development","tag-tropical-storm","tag-urban-souls-dance-company","tag-visual-art","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422159","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=422159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}