{"id":554831,"date":"2026-01-30T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554831\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:00:15","slug":"hello-houston-january-30-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554831\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston (January 30, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HH_Podcast-Cover-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: where Houston talks!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s Hello Houston, ahead of tomorrow&#8217;s election, we revisit our interviews with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardsforhouston.com\/home#meetamanda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Edwards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/christianmenefee.com\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Menefee<\/a>, the two candidates in the runoff for the 18th Congressional District, in both hours of the show.<\/p>\n<p>In the show&#8217;s first hour, we&#8217;re joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/directory\/resume\/?id=187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. David Schrank<\/a>, a Senior Research Scientist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute<\/a>, who breaks down the Texas Top 100 Congested Road Segments list for 2025 and why so many Harris County roadways are on it.<\/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>Then, in the second hour, we hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cclerk.hctx.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth<\/a>, who joins us to explain everything Houstonians need to know about the 18th Congressional District special election and upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste share a list of events happening this weekend in Houston for our regular Friday feature, &#8220;Last Minute Plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today&#8217;s Hello Houston, ahead of tomorrow&#8217;s election, we revisit our interviews with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[160005,125843,242996,242997,242998,90,2879,6386,9973,9974,4345,62026,425,50,80,26784,140164,358,75978,241644,314,3187,333],"class_list":["post-554831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-amanda-edwards","tag-christian-menefee","tag-congested-roadways","tag-david-schrank","tag-election-runoff","tag-elections","tag-events","tag-harris-county","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-last-minute-plans","tag-local","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-special-election","tag-teneshia-hudspeth","tag-texas","tag-texas-18th-congressional-district","tag-texas-am-transportation-institute","tag-traffic","tag-tx","tag-voting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115986302543253135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554831","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=554831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}