{"id":76494,"date":"2025-12-04T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76494\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:24:09","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-december-4-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/76494\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (December 4, 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.law.uh.edu\/faculty\/main.asp?PID=7501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nour Acosta<\/a>, a senior legal clinic supervisor at the University of Houston Law Center, discusses Proposition 15, a constitutional amendment that formally adds parental rights into the state constitution, and what changes parents might see now that it&#8217;s passed.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3128917\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ Emmons<\/a>, a Houston-born singer, songwriter, and former Dancing with the Stars principal singer, who tells us more about his career and one-man show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehobbycenter.org\/events\/cj-emmons-im-freaking-talented\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m Freaking Talented<\/a>, which is coming soon to the Hobby Center.<\/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 break down a new wave of Texas state laws that are about to take effect, with <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.rice.edu\/faculty\/mark-p-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Jones<\/a>, a professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University, who also shares his thoughts on what each of them could mean for Texans.<\/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; Nour Acosta, a senior legal clinic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,37634,2245,2246,56,58,57,66,13451,278,37635,223,37636,18642,287,18643,27,37637],"class_list":{"0":"post-76494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arts-culture","9":"tag-cj-emmons","10":"tag-hello-houston","11":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-mark-jones","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-new-laws","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nour-acosta","21":"tag-parental-rights","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-proposition-15","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-texas-state-laws"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76494","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=76494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76494\/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=76494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}