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On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk with Brandon Rottinghaus, co-host of Party Politics and a University of Houston political science professor, who breaks down why the Texas Hou…
On today’s Hello Houston, Frank and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the Houston Federation of Teachers’ lawsuit against Houston ISD, Sydney Sweeney’s controvers…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Houston residents criticizing HPD for calls to ICE and a survey that found the most …
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss the new proposed redrawn Congressional map for Texas at the top of each hour with Houston Public Media Politics and Government Reporter And…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the Chinese Government paying people to have children, Shipley Do-Nuts’ new owner, a…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including a public redistricting hearing that took place on Saturday, a Hobby School of Public…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie and guest host Doris Childress discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the University of Houston hosting a congressional redistricting hearing, …
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie and guest host Chau Nguyen discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including a federal judge declining to release documents from the investigation into Je…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and guest host Chau Nguyen weigh in on today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Texas Democratic lawmakers considering breaking quorum, the city …
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie and Frank discuss an ordinance passed by the city council last week that prohibits clubs and dance halls in Houston from enforcing unwritten dress codes and requires t…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk with Ed Hirs, energy economist and fellow at the University of Houston, who breaks down how the “One Big Beautiful Bill' could reshape the fut…
On today’s Hello Houston, Frank and Celeste discuss The House approving a rescission plan to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its effect on NPR and PBS with Houston Public …
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss the Senate approving legislation to rescind $9 billion in federal funding for NPR and PBS with Houston Public Media's Associate Vice Presid…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk with State Senator Paul Bettencourt to discuss the newly formed Disaster Preparedness and Flooding committee, made in response to the devastat…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste weigh in on today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including the U.S. Supreme Court allowing the Trump administration to resume dismantling t…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss today’s top headlines at the top of each hour, including recent findings related to Camp Mystic and FEMA, reactions to the new Superman fil…
On today’s Hello Houston, Frank and Celeste weigh in on today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including President Trump’s visit to Texas to survey the devastation from the floods, Attorney Gen…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste get the latest on the floods in Central Texas as well as rescue efforts from Texas Newsroom reporter Lucio Vasquez, who joins us live from Kerr Cou…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste talk with Kelly McBride, Senior Vice President of the Poynter Institute, about a false story that has circulated related to the floods in Central T…
On today’s Hello Houston, Ernie and Celeste continue covering the floods in Central Texas at the top of each hour. Houston Public Media reporter Dominic Anthony Walsh calls in to give us the latest, …