{"id":361507,"date":"2025-11-07T05:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T05:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:44:22","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-november-6-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361507\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (November 6, 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 we hear Ernie and Frank&#8217;s conversation with District 18 Congressional candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardsforhouston.com\/home#meetamanda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Edwards<\/a>, who shares her thoughts on her campaign advancing to a runoff election, the issues she&#8217;ll make a priority, what makes her qualified for the seat she&#8217;s seeking, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we learn about the Houston area nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/thebookcycle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Book Cycle<\/a>, with its director and founder, Sara Loperena, who explains how they keep books in circulation by giving them away for free, and how the program serves as a space for the community to connect and share their love of reading.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we&#8217;re also joined by Houston-born singer, actress, and motivational speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/christinawells.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christina Wells<\/a>, who discusses her life, career, and her cabaret-style show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehobbycenter.org\/events\/divas-across-the-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Divas Across the Decades<\/a>, which she will perform at the Hobby Center for the next two nights.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today\u2019s edition of \u201cThe Commuter Cut,\u201d we hear Ernie and Frank&#8217;s conversation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[42430,133685,160005,9971,110311,175508,10882,175509,90,9973,10098,4345,425,9975,975,50,7260,80,175510,358,175511,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-361507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-18th-congressional-district","9":"tag-18th-congressional-district-race","10":"tag-amanda-edwards","11":"tag-arts-culture","12":"tag-books-libraries","13":"tag-christina-wells","14":"tag-city-of-houston","15":"tag-divas-across-the-decades","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-hello-houston","18":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-local","21":"tag-local-arts","22":"tag-music","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-performing-arts","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-sara-loperena","27":"tag-texas","28":"tag-the-book-cycle","29":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115506830758502888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361507","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=361507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361507\/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=361507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}