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August 23, 2016

Texas Standard: August 23, 2016

By: David Brown

Lynch mobs are thriving in Texas, only these days they’re online, and kids are often the victims. Now a push for a law to stop them. Today on the Texas Standard.

What’s less likely than this: Donald Trump stumping for votes in the solidly democratic capitol of the reddest of states? We’ll hear what really behind his Texas swing.

Also, the feds say they want to close private prisons, now Texas is talking prison closings too…but not for the same reasons. We’ll have the back story.

And the politics of science: in a debate over what’s causing earthquakes in north Texas, the EPA shakes things up.