{"id":72871,"date":"2025-12-02T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72871\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:10:26","slug":"gov-abbott-and-states-rights-dec-1-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72871\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott and states\u2019 rights (Dec. 1, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s show: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has often been a staunch champion of states&#8217; rights, including when Joe Biden was president. But reporting from ProPublica and the Texas Tribune takes a closer look at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/greg-abbott-donald-trump-presidential-power-state-rights\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">how different things have been<\/a> with Donald Trump in the White House.<\/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>Also this hour: Then, we offer listeners a chance to vent about their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/shows\/houston-matters\/pet-peeves\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pet peeves<\/a> about life in our city. Share yours now at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/shows\/houston-matters\/2025\/12\/01\/536745\/gov-abbott-and-states-rights-dec-1-2025\/mailto:talk@houstonmatters.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">talk@houstonmatters.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And we discuss the latest developments in Houston sports with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/jeffbalke\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeff Balke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday\u2019s show: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has often been a staunch champion of states&#8217; rights, including when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145,4977,392,56,58,4978,57,36415,66,223,21240,287,36416,4979,154,36417,36418,36419],"class_list":["post-72871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-donald-trump","tag-full-show","tag-greg-abbott","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-houstonian-pet-peeves","tag-local","tag-news","tag-pet-peeves","tag-politics","tag-propublica","tag-shows","tag-sports","tag-states-rights","tag-texas-national-guard-deployment","tag-zach-despart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72871","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=72871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}