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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, we begin the show by talking with University of Houston political science professor and Party Politics<\/a> co-host Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>, who discusses a possible end to the government shutdown, U.S. Rep. Al Green announcing he\u2019s running for Texas’s 18th Congressional District<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n In the show’s first hour, the Baker Institute’s Bill King<\/a> discusses the shrinking immigrant population in the U.S. and what impact this could have on America’s economic outlook. Also, legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis<\/a> tells us about his upcoming concert at the Hobby Center<\/a> with the acclaimed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank kick off the second hour of the show by discussing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against Galveston ISD<\/a> for refusing to display the Ten Commandments inside its school’s classrooms. <\/p>\n Plus, we hear from Daniel Cohan<\/a>, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, who discusses the United States’ lack of participation in the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, and Samantha Smart<\/a>, the writer and star of the award-winning film Charliebird<\/a>, joins us to tell us more about the film, which was filmed in the Houston area.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we begin the show by talking with University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,25797,7050,25798,25799,2327,2245,4103,56,58,57,25800,1724,5258,25801,66,278,223,287,25802,18624,25803,25804],"class_list":["post-43671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-bill-king","tag-brandon-rottinghaus","tag-charliebird","tag-daniel-cohan","tag-environment","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-immigrant-population","tag-immigration","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-at-lincoln-center","tag-local","tag-music","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-samantha-smart","tag-theatre-film","tag-u-n-climate-summit","tag-wynton-marsalis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43671","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=43671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43671\/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=43671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}