Texas Standard For August 23, 2019
It’s been a week since the ransomware attacks on smaller towns and counties across Texas – we’ll look at how one county beat the cyber threat. And: Safer than cigarettes? A warning from a Texas pulmonologist over vaping, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigates more than 100 cases of severe lung disease linked to electronic cigarettes. Also: The week in Texas politics with The Texas Tribune, and a whole lot more today on the Texas Standard:

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