Texas Standard For October 24, 2017

As Washington prepares to declare an opioid emergency, an Amarillo lawmaker is tapped to take on the issue for Texas. We’ll hear his plan on how to fix the crisis. And: The recriminations between President Donald Trump and Gold Star families is front and center in the news, but which is the sideshow – that controversy, or the actual events that led to the attack on American forces in Niger? We’ll explore. Also: Texans may love high school football, but most don’t remember where some of the best games were played, or who played them. The Thursday night lights finally get some recognition. We’ll meet the man telling the story. Plus: What we might learn this week about what happened in Dallas on that most fateful November day in 1963. Those stories and so much more, today on the Texas Standard:

By Texas StandardOctober 24, 2017 11:29 am