{"id":445126,"date":"2026-09-23T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445126\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:04:25","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-september-22-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445126\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (September 22, 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\/2026\/09\/1790168665_304_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; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1240687242\/katherine-maher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Maher<\/a>, the President and CEO of NPR, discusses what public media means without public funding, what the future of NPR looks like, and what\u2019s needed from local stations like Houston Public Media.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we hear from Houstonian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reganhutsell\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regan Hutsell<\/a>, the newly crowned Miss America, who talks about what this win means to her, what&#8217;s next, and her community service initiative Your Body Is Your Home, which focuses on body image and physical and mental well-being.<\/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, we discuss the current state of furniture poverty in the greater Houston area with Oli Mohammed, Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonfurniturebank.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Furniture Bank<\/a>, who explains how the organization is addressing this issue.<\/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; Katherine Maher, the President and CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,42196,153406,2245,2246,56,153407,58,57,153408,66,148876,149151,4491,223,33867,153409,50123,148878],"class_list":["post-445126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-furniture","tag-furniture-poverty","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-furniture-bank","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-katherine-maher","tag-local","tag-miss-america","tag-miss-america-2027","tag-national","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-oli-mohammed","tag-public-media","tag-regan-hutsell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445126","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=445126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}