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Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n
On today’s Hello Houston, we talk with Ethan Chorin<\/a>, the founder & CEO of Red Sea Futures and a former U.S. diplomat posted to Libya and the UAE, who joins us to share his thoughts on the latest developments in the Iran war.<\/p>\n Then, we learn all about Galveston\u2019s upcoming FeatherFest Birding & Nature Photo Festival<\/a>, an annual birding event held during the spring migration, with Eowyn Johnson, Executive Director of the Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n In the second hour, we’re joined by Houston City Council Member Abbie Kamin<\/a>, representing District C, who discusses Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s threat to pull $110 million in city funding<\/a> over the passing of a new ordinance intended to cut back on coordination between HPD and ICE.<\/p>\n Plus, Celeste Diaz Schurman and guest host Doug Miller<\/a> discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the Houston City Council considering rescinding the recently approved ordinance<\/a> intended to cut back on coordination between HPD and ICE, the Texas State Board of Education’s new required reading list, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we talk with Ethan Chorin, the founder & CEO…\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":[67367,146750,302268,302269,10882,302270,302271,2879,302272,9094,302273,9973,9974,4345,51079,5429,1801,6087,425,1759,50,80,358,3187,2065],"class_list":["post-730568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-abbie-kamin","tag-bird-migration","tag-bird-migration-texas","tag-bird-spring-migration","tag-city-of-houston","tag-eowyn-johnson","tag-ethan-chorin","tag-events","tag-featherfest","tag-galveston","tag-galveston-island","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-police-department","tag-international","tag-iran-war","tag-local","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116410783367637512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730568","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=730568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730568\/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=730568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}