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September 6, 2016

Texas Standard: September 6, 2016

By: David Brown

Wags have wondered when Texas politics might finally turn purple. Fresh signs we might be closing in on grape season, we’ll have the details. Plus talk about guns on campus but is anyone listening anymore? Plus health officials say many early deaths in Texas are preventable, or would be if not for a major missing link: the data. What needs to be done to fill in the blanks. And the president tries to reassure pacific leaders on a controversial trade deal, but how reassured do you feel? Plus summer, the joke’s on you: now’s the season for serious readers. All that and then some today on the Texas Standard:


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