{"id":451461,"date":"2026-09-29T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:06:09","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-september-29-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451461\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (September 29, 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\/1790715969_217_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\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d we hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/people\/andrew-rothman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Rothman<\/a>, the Wildlife Campaigns Director for Environment America, who discusses the Trump administration&#8217;s major changes to the Endangered Species Act and what impact these changes could have in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/medicine\/about\/faculty\/kingb.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben King<\/a>, the founding director of the University of Houston&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/uh-health\/ih3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Housing, Homelessness, and Health<\/a>, talks about how the institute is bringing together researchers, experts, and community groups to address homelessness and find solutions for long-term housing stability.<\/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>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d we hear from Andrew Rothman, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[155243,244,155244,7809,155245,2327,155246,2244,2245,2246,696,72858,3222,56,58,57,155247,66,223,513],"class_list":["post-451461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-andrew-rothman","tag-animals","tag-ben-king","tag-endangered-species","tag-endangered-species-act","tag-environment","tag-environment-america","tag-healthcare","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-homelessness","tag-homelessness-in-houston","tag-housing","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-institute-for-housing-homelessness-and-health","tag-local","tag-news","tag-university-of-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451461","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=451461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}