Central Texas top stories for June 12, 2024. Ascension hospital system believes some patient data may have been affected by last month’s ransomware attack. State lawmakers met for a second time this week to talk about the future of the Texas power grid. Summer meal programs in Austin. A Travis County Judge has dismissed a lawsuit targeting Austin’s voter-approved ordinance decriminalizing low-level marijuana possession. The University of Texas at Austin will require nearly all staff members to return to work on-site full-time. A new study could make the long-promised high speed passenger rail a reality. The Zilker Eagle takes flight. Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse.
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Texas Standard: January 17, 2020
As the senate takes up impeachment, it takes up something else in the spirit of bipartisanship with major implications for Texas, we’ll hear all about it. Also, Texas among the states becoming magnets for people from Puerto Rico. As the territory hits population lows, who’s left? And remembering a moment that made Barbara Jordan a household name 24 years after her passing. Plus the week in Texas politics and much more today on the Texas Standard: