{"id":215936,"date":"2025-09-10T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215936\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:30:20","slug":"the-week-in-politics-sept-10-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215936\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in politics (Sept. 10, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/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 Wednesday\u2019s show: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/harris-county-judge-lina-hidalgo-walks-out-commissioners-court\/285-cdf221a6-a471-49df-a82a-526ac26510b5\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">walked out of a budget meeting<\/a>, while Texas A&amp;M plans to audit its classes after a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/education\/2025\/09\/09\/530392\/video-of-clash-over-gender-identity-content-in-texas-am-childrens-lit-class-leads-to-firings\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">professor is fired<\/a> amid conservative backlash over teaching gender identity in class. We get context and clarity on those and other developments in politics in our weekly roundup.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: We learn about efforts by law enforcement to keep reckless drivers in check.<\/p>\n<p>And this month, Houston blues acts battle for a shot to represent the city at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blues.org\/international-blues-challenge\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">International Blues Challenge<\/a> in Memphis. We learn more and bring you a special live, in-studio performance by the first woman to win the competition, Houston native <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diunna.com\/about\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Diunna Greenleaf<\/a>, and her band, Blue Mercy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday\u2019s show: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo walked out of a budget meeting, while Texas A&amp;M plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[77014,117958,117959,16304,117960,4345,16305,117961,425,975,50,117962,80,109596,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-215936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-diunna-greenleaf","10":"tag-driving-in-houston","11":"tag-full-show","12":"tag-harris-county-sherffs-office","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-matters","15":"tag-international-blues-challenge","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-political-roundup","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-reckless-driving","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115180957110469775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215936","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=215936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}