Texas Standard For February 16, 2018
Texas educators carry the dual burden of comforting students after yet another school shooting, and coming up with prevention plans. We’ll hear from some of them. And: Sales are flat or even falling in the motorcycle industry. We’ll break down why. Also: The Houston Astrodome will live on. After years of back and forth a real plan for its future, a look at the optimism and skepticism. Plus: A new building on the University of Texas campus opens up to the public this weekend. We’ll take you inside what’s not a classroom or an athletic facility but a one-of-it’s-kind art masterpiece. The story behind it. And it’s Friday! That means the Typewriter Rodeo and a wrap up of the big stories this week in Texas politics. Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard:

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