Texas Standard for June 8, 2015
Police and race: Texas is back in the international spotlight as a pair of videos go viral. Also: The EPA says there’s no connection between fracking and pollution of drinking water – end of discussion? Not so much. And: A medical breakthrough at a Houston hospital – the first ever skull cap transplant. And a tax that affects only women? All that and more, on the Standard.
Photo via Ilana Panich-Linsman/KUT
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