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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, University of Houston law professor Seth Chandler<\/a> discusses a federal judge ruling a decades-old Houston program that gives some city contracts to minority-owned businesses unconstitutional and what this could mean for the city’s contracting programs.<\/p>\n Then, Hello Houston host Ernie Manouse and today’s guest host, former America’s Got Talent semifinalist and Houston native Christina Wells<\/a>, talk about upcoming productions she’ll be starring in and life changes.<\/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 talk with Brandon Rottinghaus<\/a>, a professor of political science at the University of Houston and co-host of Houston Public Media’s Party Politics<\/a>, about how to recognize political spin, evaluate candidates’ claims, and make sense of campaign messaging during campaign season.<\/p>\n Plus, our hosts and listeners share the latest things that have been taking over all their free time as part of our regular Thursday feature, Current Obsessions. Share your Current Obsessions with us anytime by emailing us at talk@hellohouston.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n And, as always, our hosts talk about the top stories of the day at the top of each hour, including Houston voters considering deprioritizing enforcement of cannabis laws<\/a> and banning no-knock warrants, Houston airport workers receiving a 33% raise<\/a> under an executive order by Mayor Whitmire, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, University of Houston law professor Seth Chandler discusses a…\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":[9971,11593,64,86642,364972,175508,10882,40595,90,358414,41218,9973,9974,4345,425,400089,197064,50,348594,80,5546,69219,358,3187],"class_list":["post-998796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-brandon-rottinghaus","tag-business","tag-campaign-ads","tag-campaign-messaging","tag-christina-wells","tag-city-of-houston","tag-current-obsessions","tag-elections","tag-equal-protection","tag-federal-judge","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-local","tag-minority-business-program","tag-minority-owned-businesses","tag-news","tag-political-campaigns","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-seth-chandler","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117090018569311661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998796","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=998796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998796\/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=998796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}