Texas Standard For March 28, 2018
A controversial change is already facing a legal challenge: how might Texas be affected by a new citizenship question in the next US Census? We’ll explore. And: Five months after a massacre in Sutherland Springs, church officials announce new plans to rebuild. We’ll hear the latest. Also: What if you could compare the earning potential of one college degree against another? Despite a federal ban on collecting such data, Texas’ flagship university is doing the numbers. We’ll explore the implications. Plus: It was James Dean’s final film, and a larger-than-life commentary on Texas as a microcosm of America. The editor of Kirkus Review calls a new book the definitive account of the movie ‘Giant’. Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:

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