Texas Standard For September 11, 2018
Public frustration boils over into the streets after manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of an innocent man by a Dallas police officer. We’ll have the latest. And: After 2016, do you trust political polls? With election day now just eight weeks away, the horserace begins in earnest. We’ll explore how the polls became such a major institution in American politics. Also: A historic moment for the Boy Scouts as they start recruiting Texas girls. Why they’re doing this and how it’s going so far. Plus: The race to save the Texas horny toad, and so much more today on the Texas Standard:
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