Texas Standard

April 17, 2023

TxDOT wants to bury a highway. The Dallas City Council wants to get rid of it.

Tenure is on the agenda in the Texas Senate this week, as lawmakers weigh a bill that would end the practice for the new faculty at public colleges and universities. The Texas Department of Transportation wants to bury Interstate 345, a 1.4-mile stretch of highway that connects Dallas to its Deep Ellum neighborhood. But the […]

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April 14, 2023

What’s in San Antonio’s ‘justice charter’?

Yes and no signs proliferate in San Antonio over Prop A. What’s behind the city’s so-called justice charter? In Kyle, a corrections officer indicted in the shooting death of a person awaiting trial, and a family’s struggle to find answers. Taking the STAAR tests online. Should there still be a paper option? A push for […]

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April 13, 2023

Texas county may shutter its library before it returns banned books to the stacks

Attorneys for a man convicted of fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester in Austin in 2020 are asking for a retrial – a request that comes after Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to review the conviction. The debate over school vouchers, or a variation called education savings accounts, […]

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April 12, 2023

What more electric vehicles mean for the Texas electric grid

Momentum is growing among Republicans to use the U.S. military to take on drug cartels in Mexico in the fight against fentanyl. How serious is such talk? More ripple effects following a ruling by a federal judge in Amarillo that would effectively ban the abortion drug mifepristone. The Dallas Federal Reserve finds young adults feel […]

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April 11, 2023

What the worry over ChatGPT looks like on college campuses

The Texas House approved a ban on school vouchers but the Senate has plans to overcome that. One pill kills: a new statewide campaign to warn Texans about the dangers of fentanyl. An attempt by the EPA to cut substantial cancer risk in some Gulf Coast communities by as much as 96%. From college classrooms […]

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April 10, 2023

What’s next after Texas judge rules abortion medication illegal

A ruling in Amarillo that could be the most consequential abortion decision since last year’s case overturning Roe v Wade. The ruling late Friday effectively bans Mifepristone, an abortion drug. But minutes after that ruling, another in Washington state orders the FDA to do nothing to restrict the pill’s availability. What happens next? Two Democratic […]

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April 7, 2023

What a banking slowdown in Texas means for the economy

The relationship between U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow is under scrutiny after a ProPublica investigation reporting that Thomas accepted lavish vacations and more from the GOP donor. The Texas House has passed a sweeping budget that reveals a lot about support for some key issues including school vouchers, gun-related […]

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April 6, 2023

How the Farm Bill is about a lot more than farming

Another election day looming, another deadline to register to vote. We’ll look at what Texans need to know. A court decision that could change rules involving gun laws and domestic violence. They call it a farm bill, but it affects issues ranging from SNAP benefits to environmental regulations. A closer look at one of the […]

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