Rare Weather Phenomenon Creates A Fiery Cloud In The Panhandle
From Texas Standard . As everyone in the Panhandle knows, it’s wildfire season. Just southeast of Amarillo in Armstrong County, a blaze called the Mallard Fire has consumed over 75,000 acres. It’s...
View Article‘I Just Kept On And On And On’: 53-Year-Old Rafael Palmeiro Returns To Baseball
From Texas Standard . For 20 years, Rafael Palmeiro terrorized major league pitchers. The hard-hitting left-hander from Miami by way of Cuba is one of only six players to record over 3,000 hits and 500...
View ArticleAs Drought Spreads Across Texas, Ranchers Are Forced To Liquidate Their Stock
From Texas Standard . More than 40 percent of Texas is in some stage of drought right now, according to the latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor . Some parts of the state are especially dry, like...
View ArticleIllinois Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment – 36 Years After The Deadline
From Texas Standard . Last week, the Illinois State Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment , an addition to the U.S. Constitution that would provide protection from discrimination based on sex.
View ArticleSupreme Court Ruling Could Pave The Way For Voter Roll Purges In Texas
From Texas Standard . The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Monday that it was OK for Ohio to remove people from voter registration rolls if those voters skip a few elections and then fail to respond...
View ArticleEnergy Historian Says Texas A&M Will Bring Fresh Eyes To Los Alamos National Lab
From Texas Standard . Before sunrise on July 16, 1945, a bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert. It was a new weapon so powerful that at the time it almost seemed like science fiction – the atomic...
View ArticleSan Antonio-Based Researcher Says His Algorithm Predicts Who Will Win The...
From Texas Standard . For the next month, the eyes of the soccer world will be on Russia, the site of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The 32-team tournament, which does not include the United States, will...
View ArticleA Houston Killer Is Too Sick To Be Executed, His Lawyer Says
From Texas Standard . Danny Bible is scheduled to die on June 27. He was sentenced to death in 2003 for murdering Houston resident Inez Deaton in 1979. Bible’s attorney, Jeremy Schepers, recently filed...
View ArticleA Space Policy Expert Says Donald Trump's Proposed 'Space Force' Would Hurt...
From Texas Standard: Most of President Donald Trump's attention this week has been occupied by the southern border. But on Monday, he took some time to address his plans for another frontier: the great...
View ArticleConvincing Texans To Give Up Plastic Straws Is All About Positive Framing
From Texas Standard . There’s nothing new about plastic straws. They’ve been around for decades. But there has been a recent backlash against them. Eric Hamerman , a marketing professor and expert in...
View ArticleWhat Women On Oil Rigs Need Most: Coveralls That Fit
From Texas Standard . Women make up only about 20 percent of the worldwide oil and gas workforce, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Petroleum Council.
View ArticleWhy Are We So Mesmerized By Stories Like The Cave Rescue In Thailand?
From Texas Standard . When Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl in Midland, was stuck in a well for 58 hours in October of 1987, CNN carried most of the rescue effort live. There was an international...
View ArticleWhy The Threshold Of A 'Heat Advisory' Depends On Where You Live
From Texas Standard: You may have heard that term ‘heat advisory’ quite a bit during this latest heat wave. It’s a notice the National Weather Service sends out to tell people that they need to take...
View ArticleWhat's The Safest Way To Protect Texas Cattle From Fever Ticks?
From Texas Standard: Raising cattle anywhere is hard, but it’s especially hard in the Rio Grande Valley. And that’s thanks to fever ticks . They can spread a fatal disease that decimated cattle herds...
View ArticleShould Growing Hemp Be Legal? Sid Miller Says 'Yes.'
From Texas Standard : When it comes to crops, Texas has one of the most diverse portfolios around. But here's one commodity you won't find: industrial hemp. The square cousin of marijuana has no...
View ArticleTexas Has Just Five Dry Counties Left. Why Is That?
From Texas Standard : On Election Day in Stanton, just north of Midland, Ron Black was skeptical that a particular measure on the ballot would pass. “Well, I think at first it was - uh, nobody thought...
View ArticleDallas Exhibit Celebrates The Art Of Ida O'Keeffe
From Texas Standard: The name Georgia O'Keeffe probably brings to mind images of giant, brightly-colored flowers, or the artist's famous skulls, sunsets or the Southwest. Many people don't realize that...
View ArticleIf Tornillo Detention Facility Closes, What Happens Next?
From Texas Standard : The border, the wall, the immigration issue – they're all front and center right now in Washington, as they have been almost every day of 2018.
View ArticleWhere Do Tornadoes Get Their Start? Maybe It's Not All About The Funnel Cloud.
From Texas Standard : Where do tornadoes come from? It's not a riddle or a trick question, although the answer may seem obvious: the sky, right? Evidently, that's not the case.
View ArticleVictoria Advocate And Calhoun Port Authority At Odds Over Agency's Alleged...
The Calhoun Port Authority has spent $360,000 in taxpayer money to defend itself against a lawsuit filed by the Victoria Advocate newspaper. The suit alleges the authority violated open-meetings rules...
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