{"id":436791,"date":"2026-09-15T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436791\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:04:15","slug":"houston-public-media-to-host-october-harris-county-judge-debate-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436791\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Public Media to host October Harris County Judge debate \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Image-1-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-561848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Image-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Harris County Judge candidates Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez will face off in an October debate presented by Houston Public Media in partnership with the Houston Chronicle, N+ Univision 45, and The University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs.\" width=\"1812\" height=\"1082\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a>Harris County Judge candidates Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez will face off in an October debate presented by Houston Public Media in partnership with the Houston Chronicle, N+ Univision 45, and The University of Houston&#8217;s Hobby School of Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County Judge candidates Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez will face off in an October debate presented by Houston Public Media in partnership with the Houston Chronicle, N+ Univision 45, and The University of Houston&#8217;s Hobby School of Public Affairs. <\/p>\n<p>The hour-long debate will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 and will air live on PBS TV Channel 8, News 88.7, HPM+ streaming, N+ Univision 45 Houston&#8217;s digital platforms and other digital channels. The debate will also be simulcast in English and Spanish. <\/p>\n<p>The candidates will respond to questions from four experienced journalists on critical issues such as budget, transportation, flood control and taxes. The debate will provide Harris County&#8217;s nearly 5 million residents a chance to hear directly from the candidates as they share their views on the challenges and opportunities ahead. <\/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>Sanchez, a former county treasurer and Houston City Council member, defeated Warren Howell in the May Republican runoff election. <\/p>\n<p>Plummer, a former Houston City Council Member and the Democratic candidate for Harris County Judge, narrowly defeated former Houston Mayor Annise Parker during the May primary runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County voters will elect the next Harris County Judge in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County Judge candidates Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez will face off in an October debate presented by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39794,405,5550,56,58,57,15685,66,223,75402],"class_list":["post-436791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-election-2026","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-judge-race","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-letitia-plummer","tag-local","tag-news","tag-orlando-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436791","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=436791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}