Texas Standard For December 11, 2018
A holiday homecoming for U.S. forces at the border? This, as an 11th hour battle begins in earnest over the so-called border wall. With Congress trying to wrap things up for the holidays, what’s standing in the way is what might be President Donald Trump’s last best opportunity to get funding for that wall he promised, before Democrats take over the House. We’ll have the latest. And: In the city that bears the name Big Spring, how the nation’s first “toilet to tap” experiment is fairing, five years on. Also: Who was Jim Hogg really? All that and then some today on the Texas Standard:
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Social Media Producer Wells Dunbar prepares for the show.
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