A holiday homecoming for U.S. forces at the border? This, as an 11th hour battle begins in earnest over the so-called border wall. With congress trying to wrap things up for the holidays, what’s standing in the way is what might be President Trump’s last best opportunity to get funding for that wall he promised, before democrats take over the house. We’ll have the latest. Also, in the city that bears the name Big Spring, how the nation’s first “toilet to tap” experiment is fairing five years on. And who was Jim Hogg really? All that and then some today on the Texas Standard:
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Texas Standard: February 5, 2018
Botched executions: that’s the claim from the attorneys of the latest man put to death in Texas. We’ll examine the details. Also it’s incredibly delicate work: manufacturing and maintaining the country’s nuclear weapons. Why a new contract could be putting that work at an Amarillo plant at risk. And Mexico’s state owned petroleum company is mired in challenges. We’ll look at why and how it’s affecting the country’s relationship with the US. Plus, in Houston an effort to preserve a bit of Latino history, and a new book preserves the history of Big Spring. Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard: