{"id":546730,"date":"2026-01-27T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/546730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:40:27","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-january-26-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/546730\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (January 26, 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&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; we discuss how you can protect your pipes from the freezing weather with Joe Bany, director of operations at John Moore Services, who also takes questions from Hello Houston listeners.<\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/author\/andrea-leinfelder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Leinfelder<\/a>, the space reporter for the Houston Chronicle, joins us to tell us about Congress approving a $24.4 billion budget for NASA, what impact this could have on the agency\u2019s future, and what we know about the upcoming Artemis II mission.<\/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>Plus, we also learn about the closure of an oyster harvesting area in Matagorda Bay, from Kelley Kowal, the regional director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife Department<\/a> Coastal Fisheries Division, who also explains what factors hinder oyster habitats.<\/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 discuss how you can protect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[239923,71871,239924,746,240429,9973,10098,4345,237715,239925,239926,425,916,50,239928,783,358,162042,3187,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-546730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-andrea-leinfelder","9":"tag-artemis-ii","10":"tag-bursting-pipes","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-harvesting-oysters","13":"tag-hello-houston","14":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-frozen-pipes","17":"tag-joe-bany","18":"tag-kelley-kowal","19":"tag-local","20":"tag-nasa","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-pipes","23":"tag-space","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-texas-parks-and-wildlife-department","26":"tag-tx","27":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115966877813459302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546730","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=546730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546730\/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=546730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}