{"id":376784,"date":"2025-11-13T21:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376784\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:15:15","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-november-13-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/376784\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (November 13, 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; we hear Ernie and Celeste&#8217;s conversation with Houston City Council at large 4 candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alejandrasalinas.com\/meet-alejandra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alejandra Salinas<\/a>, who joins us to discuss the upcoming runoff election, issues she&#8217;s passionate about, and what sets her apart from other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we are joined by critically acclaimed filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irasachsfilms.com\/biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ira Sachs<\/a>, who talks to us about his career, his newest film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34250044\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Hujar\u2019s Day<\/a>, as well as what drew him to this project.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we learn about the early career and national legacy of former Vice President Dick Cheney following his recent passing, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/hobby\/about\/faculty\/chase-untermeyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase Untermeyer<\/a>, a professor of practice at the University of Houston&#8217;s Hobby School of Public Affairs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/contributors\/loren-steffy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loren Steffy<\/a>, a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly.<\/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 Ernie and Celeste&#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":[147457,9971,181103,10882,173334,9973,10098,472,4345,51079,181104,425,181105,50,181106,358,9977,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-376784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-alejandra-salinas","9":"tag-arts-culture","10":"tag-chase-untermeyer","11":"tag-city-of-houston","12":"tag-dick-cheney","13":"tag-hello-houston","14":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","15":"tag-history","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-houston-city-council","18":"tag-ira-sachs","19":"tag-local","20":"tag-loren-steffy","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-peter-hujar","23":"tag-texas","24":"tag-theatre-film","25":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115544466083830089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376784","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=376784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376784\/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=376784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}