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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 discuss an effort to restore the Bastrop Promenade in Houston\u2019s East Downtown after it was altered for the FIFA World Cup with former Houston City Councilmember Robert Gallegos, resident advocate with Save Bastrop Promenade, Nguyen Le, and president of Friends of Columbia Tap, Ed Pettitt.<\/p>\n
Then, in this week’s HPM In Focus, we talk with Houston Public Media’s Fort Bend County bureau reporter Melissa Enaje<\/a>, who breaks down the new boundary changes<\/a> approved by Fort Bend ISD for several middle schools and high schools. <\/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 of the show, we discuss Farmer’s Markets in the Houston area with AJ Beard<\/a>, Executive Director of the Texas Center for Local Food<\/a>, who also tells us more about food systems and the critical role they play in the lives of Houstonians.<\/p>\n And finally, we’re joined by long-time Houston-based comedian Andy Huggins<\/a>, who stops by to tell us about his 45 years in stand-up comedy, his experience as a contestant on America’s Got Talent, and his perspective on the current state of comedy.<\/p>\n And, as always, our hosts Tessa Barrera and Michael Adkison<\/a> discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the live explosion found at George Bush Intercontinental Airport last month, the Houston City Council unveiling a $48 million initiative to address homelessness<\/a>, President Trump rallying for Republican candidates in San Antonio, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we discuss an effort to restore the Bastrop Promenade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157579,157580,157581,146164,118497,157582,20167,49,3367,441,27990,75746,2245,4103,56,84674,44280,58,57,150136,66,157583,91951,223,157584,157585,157586],"class_list":["post-460893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-aj-beard","tag-andy-huggins","tag-bastrop-promenade","tag-comic","tag-east-downtown-houston","tag-ed-pettitt","tag-farmers-markets","tag-food","tag-fort-bend","tag-fort-bend-county","tag-fort-bend-isd","tag-friends-of-columbia-tap","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-comedian","tag-houston-farmers-market","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-hpm-in-focus","tag-local","tag-melissa-enaje","tag-michael-adkison","tag-news","tag-nguyen-le","tag-robert-gallegos","tag-texas-center-for-local-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460893","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=460893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}