Texas Standard for March 7, 2017
The bathroom line gets long outside the Senate chambers, as lawmakers hunker down to take care of business. We’ll have the latest on a controversial move just ahead. And: Is there something Texas Democrats and Republicans can agree on? Quite possibly. We’ll hear about rumblings over criminal justice reform. Also: 11 professors for how much? Why the governor’s plan bring the best and the brightest to Texas may be on the chopping block. Plus: Aggies making school a safe place for former soldiers: how and why? Those stories and so much more, today on the Texas Standard:

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Texas Standard producer and reporter Joy Diaz hard at work.
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