Texas Standard For April 16, 2019
The images captured the world: Notre Dame on fire. Yellow smoke billowing, the spire falling. We’ll have the view from Texas. And: Could a voting error land you in jail? The Texas Senate just passed a bill to increase the penalties of so-called voter fraud. We’ll explore. Also: More states are allowing certain teachers and staff to carry guns in schools, but there’s no federal standard to govern the trend. Plus: Off the coast of Texas: old oil rigs are actually benefiting the environment, and what’s causing ship wreckage that’s been around for more than a century to disappear now. All those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:
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More from 04/16/2019
Texas Senate Passes Bill That Could Send Texans To Jail For Voting Crimes
A Texas Bishop Grieves For Notre Dame
With No National Standards, Policies For Arming Teachers Are Often Left To Local School Districts
Hundreds Of Decommissioned Oil Rigs Are Now Thriving Marine Habitats
News Roundup: Poll Shows Beto O’Rourke And Julián Castro Lag Behind Prominent Democrats
UT Romani Scholar Honored By Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II
As Nature Claims Shipwrecks, Historians Can Only Watch
The New Film, ‘The River And The Wall,’ Shows The Border As Few People Have Ever Seen It.
