{"id":309089,"date":"2025-10-16T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309089\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:51:25","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-october-16-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309089\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (October 16, 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&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss the upcoming November election and the latest in political news with University of Houston political science professor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/shows\/party-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Party Politics<\/a> co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.edu\/class\/political-science\/faculty-and-staff\/professors\/rottinghaus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rottinghaus also tells us about <a href=\"https:\/\/yalloween.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Y&#8217;alloween<\/a>, a nonprofit he runs with his son, which works to help give children in need costumes for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we discuss a new report that found many Houston area households are currently facing economic strain with <a href=\"https:\/\/uh.edu\/hobby\/about\/faculty\/pablo-pinto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pablo Pinto<\/a>, Director of the University of Houston&#8217;s Center for Public Policy, who breaks down the findings and what they mean for the city\u2019s future.<\/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; Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[11593,79,90,9973,10098,4345,156262,425,50,19297,87644,85,80,358,3187,156263],"class_list":{"0":"post-309089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-brandon-rottinghaus","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-hello-houston","12":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-economy","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-november-election","18":"tag-pablo-pinto","19":"tag-political-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-tx","23":"tag-yalloween"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115386062680651044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309089","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=309089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309089\/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=309089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}