Texas Standard for December 21, 2016

Texas officials fulfill a promise – no more Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood. The implications and what comes next. And: A multi-million dollar emergency infusion for child protective services. The plan – hire new caseworkers and give raises to keep others from leaving. But there’s a hitch, just in time for the holidays. We’ll hear about it. Also: She was a full-throated communist, cast as a working-class hero and a villain. And then her story was almost lost to history. A revival of interest in the lady called ‘the passionate one from Texas’. Plus: Veterans signing on to wage a new kind of war … in cyberspace. All of that and lots more today on the Texas Standard: