{"id":73472,"date":"2025-12-02T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:17:09","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-december-2-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73472\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (December 2, 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; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/a> national board member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cair.com\/national_board_of_directors\/john-floyd-national-board-member\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Floyd<\/a> tells us about the group&#8217;s lawsuit against Governor Greg Abbott for his decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/religion\/2025\/11\/19\/536651\/local-leaders-condemn-governors-decision-to-label-cair-as-a-foreign-terrorist-organization\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">label them a terrorist organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasjailproject.org\/staff\/krishnaveni-gundu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Krish Gundu<\/a>, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasjailproject.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Jail Project<\/a>, who helps break down Proposition 3 and how it could impact jail populations across the state following its recent passing.<\/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 Ali Al Sudani, chief program officer for <a href=\"https:\/\/imgh.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IM Houston<\/a>, who discusses the organization&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/imgh.org\/imhouston-meals-on-wheels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meals on Wheels program<\/a> and their mission to provide nutritious meals and social support to thousands of homebound seniors daily.<\/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; Council on American-Islamic Relations national board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36634,30486,30485,49,2245,2246,56,58,57,36635,36636,36637,66,4082,223,14047,1968,27,36638],"class_list":["post-73472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ali-al-sudani","tag-cair","tag-council-on-american-islamic-relations","tag-food","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-im-houston","tag-john-floyd","tag-krish-gundu","tag-local","tag-meals-on-wheels","tag-news","tag-proposition-3","tag-religion","tag-texas","tag-texas-jail-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472","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=73472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472\/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=73472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}