Texas Standard for December 15, 2016
Don’t drink the water. Don’t even bother boiling it. Corpus Christi closes schools and lines form for bottled water in a fresh scare over safety. Details today on the Standard. And: What’s after NAFTA? With a promise from the President-elect to pull out of the trade deal, Congressman Will Hurd gets an earful from Texans living along the border. We’ll hear from the Congressman. Also: The energy capital of the U.S. is Denver? Colorado snags BP operations from Houston. What the move means for Texas. Plus: The best Texas book from 2016? The editor of Kirkus Reviews says nothing else comes close. We’ll hear his pick and why. That and a whole lot more all coming up today on the Texas Standard:

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