{"id":163169,"date":"2025-08-21T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163169\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:03:14","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-august-20-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163169\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (August 20, 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.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/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\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/cp4.harriscountytx.gov\/Briones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 4, Lesley Briones<\/a>, discusses the Harris County budget and how Commissioners are proposing to manage the $48 million budget deficit as we approach the 25-26 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/house.texas.gov\/members\/4035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Rep. Penny Morales Shaw<\/a>, who discusses being one of eight Texas House Democrats who joined together to \u201cRip the Slip.\u201d She also shares her thoughts on the pushback House Democrats have received since returning to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 4,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[6386,47415,9973,10098,4345,93922,425,50,93924,80,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-163169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-harris-county","9":"tag-harris-county-budget","10":"tag-hello-houston","11":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-lesley-briones","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-penny-morales-shaw","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115065480976362519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}