{"id":534958,"date":"2026-01-22T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/534958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:22:30","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-january-21-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/534958\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (January 21, 2026) \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 from <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.culturemap.com\/u\/eric\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Sandler<\/a>, the food and culture editor at CultureMap Houston, who shares his thoughts on why many Houston restaurants are shutting down and what factors are driving these closings.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we discuss the use of force by law enforcement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhd.edu\/faculty\/gilmoree.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Beth Gilmore<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston\u2013Downtown, who explains what protocols guide these decisions, and what rights individuals have if they\u2019re stopped or pursued by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we also learn all about the local all-female mariachi band &#8220;Las Chabelitas,&#8221; from two of its members, Chloe McGhee and Siumy Coreas, who also tell us more about the group, what mariachi means to them, and how it feels to be a part of an all-female mariachi band, considering how male-dominated the genre has traditionally been.<\/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 from Eric Sandler, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[9971,101308,236138,80127,38860,236139,990,9973,10098,4345,36006,236142,2936,425,125426,236143,975,50,236144,358,3187],"class_list":["post-534958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-beth-gilmore","tag-chloe-mcghee","tag-deadly-force","tag-eric-sandler","tag-female-mariachi-band","tag-food","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-restaurants","tag-las-chabelitas","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-mariachi","tag-mariachi-band","tag-music","tag-news","tag-siumy-coreas","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115939675000489243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534958","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=534958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534958\/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=534958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}