{"id":80877,"date":"2025-12-08T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:52:08","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-december-8-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80877\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (December 8, 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 hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/council\/c\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston City Councilwoman Abbie Kamin<\/a>, who tells us about a new dashboard aimed at changing how we understand and tackle gun violence, as well as her recently announced run for Harris County attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we&#8217;re joined by Houston-based author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmischief.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Dylan Powell<\/a>, who talks to us about his new book, Lost Treasures of Houston, which explores the amazing people, places, and phenomena from Houston&#8217;s history.<\/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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/person\/emma-wager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Wager<\/a>, a senior policy analyst at KFF, joins us to share her thoughts on expiring subsidies for Obamacare, what lawmakers are currently weighing, and what&#8217;s at stake for millions of American families.<\/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 hear from Houston City Councilwoman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4105,11323,3766,39320,5603,39321,2244,2245,2246,2419,56,58,31241,57,66,39322,223,4840,39323],"class_list":["post-80877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-abbie-kamin","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-city-of-houston","tag-emma-wager","tag-gun-violence","tag-harris-county-attorney","tag-healthcare","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-history","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-history","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-lost-treasures-of-houston","tag-news","tag-obamacare","tag-william-dylan-powell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80877","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=80877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80877\/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=80877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}