Texas Standard For March 12, 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is removing all diplomatic staff from Venezuela, where he says the situation is “deteriorating” – he tells us why. Also: Houston is making headlines for not being chosen to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention. A dispute over firefighter pay may be at the center of that choice. Plus: Some college-level Black Studies programs are celebrating 50 years – how they’ve changed. And: Several countries are grounding planes like the one in a deadly weekend crash – but not the U.S. We’ll look at why. All of those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:
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Producer, and today's host, Laura Rice, cuts audio for the show.
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