Central Texas top stories for June 28, 2024. More heat advisories today and tomorrow. Austin ban on public camping effectively upheld by U.S. Supreme Court. Fentanyl danger remains. Texas a big contributor to U.S. GDP. Free wedding ceremonies for Travis County’s Marriage Equality Week. UT celebrates joining the SEC.
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Texas Standard: October 25, 2021
Two cases challenging Texas’ near total ban on abortions get put on the fast track by the U.S. Supreme Court. What happens next? Not since Bush v Gore has the U.S. Supreme Court moved with such speed as has in two challenges to Texas’s new abortion law, known as SB8. But for now, it remains in force in Texas. We’ll hear what the SCOTUS move means for the future of abortion in Texas and the rest of the nation. Also a plan to link Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio by Amtrak. One with friends in very high places, including 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And the art of ladders and border barriers. Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard: