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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, with early voting officially underway, we talk with Jacqueline Lucci Smith, the Republican candidate for Harris County Attorney, who discusses her campaign and why she believes she’s the right person for this position.<\/p>\n
Then, in this week’s edition of On The Marquee, Ernie visits with soprano Sylvia D’Eramo and internationally acclaimed tenor Matthew Polenzani, who both discuss playing the titular roles in Houston Grand Opera’s new season openers Susannah<\/a> and Faust<\/a>.<\/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, Dr. Richa Shukla<\/a>, an associate professor of medicine in gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine, discusses living with inflammatory bowel disease and a new event at The Health Museum that’s designed to connect patients and families with information and support.<\/p>\n And finally, filmmaker Azfar Ali<\/a> and producer and co-writer Yasir Raza<\/a> share the story behind Jyoti, a Houston-produced film that’s earning recognition on the festival circuit while also building cultural connections through storytelling.<\/p>\n And, as always, our hosts Tessa Barrera and Ernie Manouse discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Texas leaders campaigning to bring the new space academy<\/a> to the Lone Star State, Elon Musk vowing to give a SpaceX share to every child in the U.S., and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton campaigning in the Houston area<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, with early voting officially underway, we talk with Jacqueline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,160136,39794,288,160137,405,75754,2940,2244,2245,4103,56,25815,11001,58,57,160138,160139,160140,66,11838,160141,223,149816,2510,5547,287,160142,160143,160144,77875,18624,160145],"class_list":["post-472568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-azfar-ali","tag-election-2026","tag-elections","tag-faust","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-attorney-election","tag-health-science","tag-healthcare","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-films","tag-houston-grand-opera","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-inflammatory-bowel-disease","tag-jacqueline-lucci-smith","tag-jyoti","tag-local","tag-local-arts","tag-matthew-polenzani","tag-news","tag-on-the-marquee","tag-opera","tag-opera-musical-theater","tag-politics","tag-richa-shukla","tag-susannah","tag-sylvia-deramo","tag-the-health-museum","tag-theatre-film","tag-yasir-raza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472568","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=472568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}