Chronicle Editorial Board Says Shut Down Government Unless Congress Funds...
From Texas Standard . Last week at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, addressed the need for more federal aid after Hurricane Harvey. “We do not...
View ArticleCourt Says The State Must Ramp Up Foster Parent Recruiting
From Texas Standard . A six-year-old class action lawsuit over the system of foster care in Texas may be reaching a climax. It’s the case in which a federal judge found Texas’ foster care system to be...
View ArticleMeet The Grass That’s Eating Southeast Texas
From Texas Standard . In southeast Texas, farmers and ranchers are trying to eradicate a kind of grass that’s taking over the landscape. But it’s not working. On a warm December morning in Colorado...
View ArticleTrump Administration Says It's Time To Go Back To The Moon
From Texas Standard: It's been 45 years since astronaut Harrison Schmitt set foot on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 mission – and no one's done it since. If the president gets his way, that will...
View ArticleInside Texas’ Anthrax Triangle
If you’re familiar with anthrax, it’s probably because of what happened in 2001 . Letters laced with anthrax spores were sent to news outlets and politicians, killing five people and infecting over a...
View ArticleA Texas High School Won A Record Number Of State Championships In Honor Of A...
From Texas Standard . 2017 was a year to remember in Muenster. The Texas city is about 15 miles south of the Oklahoma border, and in 2017, its public high school did something that no other Texas...
View ArticleTrump Administration Proposes Rollback Of Obama's Oil Rig Safety Regulation
From Texas Standard . The 2010 disaster at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of oil. It was the worst oil spill in U.S. history...
View ArticleTexas Is In For A Rough Flu Season This Winter
From Texas Standard . The most wonderful time of the year is gone, and it’s been replaced by what some might say is one of the worst times of the year – flu season. This year it’s particularly bad in...
View ArticleShould Congress Bring Back Earmarks?
From Texas Standard . During a White House meeting Tuesday between Democratic and Republican congressional leaders, President Donald Trump strayed from the subject of immigration to the topic of how...
View ArticleTxDOT Finds Possible Mammoth Bones Near Lubbock Road Project
From Texas Standard . When you think about the challenges of roadway construction, obstacles above the ground come to mind – getting over or through mountains, rivers, and the like. What’s under the...
View ArticleHow Texas Broadened Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Horizons
From Texas Standard . Most people know his acting and comedy, especially his movies and recordings with counterculture collaborator Tommy Chong. But there’s a whole lot more to Cheech Marin than you’d...
View ArticleWill The Supreme Court Uphold Findings That Texas Election Maps Intentionally...
From Texas Standard . Last August a panel of three federal judges ruled that Texas congressional and state house maps needed to be redrawn. The judges ruled the maps discriminate against voters of...
View ArticleOtherworldly, Amazingly Quiet, Like A Faraway Land: Remembering San Antonio's...
From Texas Standard . Much of Texas woke up to frozen roads and windshields covered in ice this morning – a bad winter storm, to be sure. But as winter weather events go, this certainly pales in...
View ArticleIn Lake Fork, A Tiny Plant Threatens Trophy-Sized Fish, And A Way Of Life
From Texas Standard: Anglers come from all over the world to fish Lake Fork, a 27,000-acre lake in east Texas with a reputation for producing monster fish. And in their quest to land a lunker, those...
View ArticleAn FBI Raid In Houston Sheds Light On Countless Human Trafficking Slaves...
From Texas Standard . For eight years, in southwest Houston, a brothel operated out of a shabby apartment complex. Locals who knew about it didn’t speak up, fearful of retribution from the...
View ArticleIn A Break With Other Sports Leagues, The NBA Wants To Legalize Betting
From Texas Standard . In most parts of the United States, it’s illegal to gamble on sports. Casinos and sportsbooks in Nevada – where it’s legal – took in over $4.5 billion in wagers in 2016 alone. Now...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To The Flu, Don’t Give In To Fear, Get The Shot
From Texas Standard . Since October 2017, over 2300 Texans have died from the flu. Of those death, over half have been among the elderly. Called the worst flu season in over a decade, it has sparked...
View ArticleA $380,000 Longhorn? A Look At The Never-Ending Race For The Biggest Horns In...
From Texas Standard . In 1941, Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie published The Longhorns, the definitive book on the quintessential Lone Star State livestock. Dobie was unsparing in his description of...
View ArticleNorthwest Harris County Residents Are No Fans Of The Proposed Bullet Train
From Texas Standard: The Houston-to-Dallas bullet train project is supposed to be able to transport people from one city to the other in just 90 minutes. But is the plan for high-speed rail getting any...
View ArticleCloned Crayfish – Or Is It Crawfish – Could Be Coming To Texas Waters
From Texas Standard . For most Texans, crayfish – or crawfish – come in two varieties: boiled and fried. Even in a living state, most of us probably couldn’t name too many species of mudbugs. The...
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