Many highway checkpoints inland from the border are closed as border officials try to deal with a new surge of migrants from Central America, we’ll have the latest. Also, rural electrification transformed the lives of millions of Texas. Is it time for something similar for broadband? We’ll talk with the Texas lawmaker pushing to get the rest of Texas wired. Plus for the first time since 1940 there’s a new dental school for Texas. But how’s Texas Tech planning on keeping its newly minted dentists where they’re most needed? And fighting words: the Mueller report and how we’re talking about it. All those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:
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Texas Standard: December 11, 2015
The so called gun show loophole may be tightening…with a Texas-sized impact. A reality check on background checks today on the Standard. Plus taking your kid to the dentist shouldn’t be dangerous but an investigation drills into the facts and finds some startling numbers. We’ll have that story plus- wind and solar power on tap for all by 2020? Why one researcher says its time to green light a greener power grid for Texas. And, how bout a ride on the Japanese bullet train…deep in the heart of you know where? Plus the week in politics and much more today on the Texas Standard: