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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’re joined by Houston City Council at large 4 candidate Alejandra Salinas<\/a>, who talks to us about her upcoming runoff election with Dwight Boykins, and filmmaker Ira Sachs<\/a> tells us all about his new film Peter Hujar\u2019s Day<\/a>, in the first hour of the show.<\/p>\n Then, in the show’s second hour, we speak with Chase Untermeyer<\/a>, a Professor of Practice at the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs, and Loren Steffy<\/a>, a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, who discuss the early career and legacy of former Vice President Dick Cheney, following his recent passing.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n Also, our hosts share a rundown of the things that are currently taking over all our free time for our regular Thursday feature, “Current Obsessions.”<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie and Celeste talk about the top stories of the day at the top of each hour, including Mayor John Whitmire defending the Houston Police Department’s coordination with ICE<\/a> and reactions from the new emails that were released from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. <\/p>\n Plus, as a bonus, Houston Public Media reporter Michael Adkison<\/a> joins us for live reports from the Houston Ballet’s Nutcracker Market<\/a> at the top of each hour.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we’re joined by Houston City Council at large 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17827,1174,27798,3766,6983,22075,64,2245,4103,2419,56,4626,58,57,27799,66,27800,223,21299,27801,1175,18624],"class_list":["post-48469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alejandra-salinas","tag-arts-culture","tag-chase-untermeyer","tag-city-of-houston","tag-current-obsessions","tag-dick-cheney","tag-events","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-history","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-ira-sachs","tag-local","tag-loren-steffy","tag-news","tag-nutcracker-market","tag-peter-hujars-day","tag-pop-culture","tag-theatre-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48469","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=48469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}