{"id":53854,"date":"2025-11-18T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/53854\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:36:14","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-november-17-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/53854\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (November 17, 2025) \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\/2025\/10\/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; we discuss the City of Galveston\u2019s plan to use AI to help improve traffic conditions on the island, with the city\u2019s manager, Brian Maxwell, who explains how it would work and when we can expect it to launch.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we learn about this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ironsommelier.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Sommelier<\/a>, Houston&#8217;s premier wine competition and tasting event, with Guard and Grace&#8217;s Matthew McLaughlin, who&#8217;s also the winner of Iron Sommelier 2024, and Justin Goodman, Board President of <a href=\"https:\/\/periwinklefoundation.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Periwinkle Foundation<\/a>.<\/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 also talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.uh.edu\/faculty\/main.asp?PID=8606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Froomkin<\/a>, assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, who shares his thoughts on recent news revolving around the U.S. Supreme Court, as they get ready to hear a case that could impact how millions of Americans vote by mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; we discuss the City of Galveston\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3436,29586,29816,29587,64,7216,2245,2246,56,58,57,29588,29589,66,29590,223,5759,3621,29593,272],"class_list":["post-53854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-brian-maxwell","tag-city-of-galveston","tag-david-froomkin","tag-events","tag-galveston","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-iron-sommelier","tag-justin-goodman","tag-local","tag-matthew-mclaughlin","tag-news","tag-supreme-court","tag-technology","tag-the-periwinkle-foundation","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53854","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=53854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}