{"id":84268,"date":"2025-07-22T22:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84268\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:02:13","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-july-22-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84268\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (July 22, 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;, Ernie and Frank talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/people\/lauren-mcgaughy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren McGaughy<\/a>, an investigative reporter with The Texas Newsroom, who has been tracking Elon Musk&#8217;s political playbook inside the Texas Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Nicole Temple, VP of Education at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Museum of Natural Science<\/a>, joins in to break down their new exhibit &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/my.hmns.org\/37996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extreme Animals Alive<\/a>,&#8221; as well as tell us about some of the animals found in the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/cjo.harriscountytx.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo<\/a> calls in to discuss her &#8220;Penny Tax&#8221; plan, an additional one-cent property tax to help support the county&#8217;s Early REACH childcare program for children under the age of 5 as federal COVID relief disappears.<\/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;, Ernie and Frank talk with Lauren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3425,407,57154,6386,9973,10098,57155,4345,57156,57157,57158,425,50,57159,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-84268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-extreme-animals-alive","11":"tag-harris-county","12":"tag-hello-houston","13":"tag-hello-houston-commuter","14":"tag-hmns","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-museum-of-natural-science","17":"tag-lauren-mcgaughy","18":"tag-lina-hidalgo","19":"tag-local","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nicole-temple","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114899146872484593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84268","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=84268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84268\/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=84268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}