Texas Standard For October 21, 2019

Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen could be leaving his position sooner than anyone expected, so says Texas Tribune co-founder Ross Ramsey – we’ll have details. Other stories we’re following: A backlog at a major Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab. The problem? Worker turnover. And: Money going up in smoke? What to do about a surplus of natural gas. Also: Is Texas more Southern or Western? Scholar H.W. Brands invites readers to rethink what they know of the latter in his epic history of the American West. Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:

By Texas StandardOctober 21, 2019 12:27 pm