{"id":7201,"date":"2025-10-16T20:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7201\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:22:13","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-october-16-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7201\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (October 16, 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; Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss the upcoming November election and the latest in political news with University of Houston political science professor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/shows\/party-politics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Party Politics<\/a> co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.edu\/class\/political-science\/faculty-and-staff\/professors\/rottinghaus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rottinghaus also tells us about <a href=\"https:\/\/yalloween.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Y&#8217;alloween<\/a>, a nonprofit he runs with his son, which works to help give children in need costumes for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we discuss a new report that found many Houston area households are currently facing economic strain with <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.edu\/hobby\/about\/faculty\/pablo-pinto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Pinto<\/a>, Director of the University of Houston&#8217;s Center for Public Policy, who breaks down the findings and what they mean for the city\u2019s future.<\/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; Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7050,918,288,2245,2246,56,6984,58,57,66,223,5373,6985,6986,287,6987],"class_list":["post-7201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-brandon-rottinghaus","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-economy","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-november-election","tag-pablo-pinto","tag-political-news","tag-politics","tag-yalloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201","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=7201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7201\/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=7201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}