Texas Standard for September 6, 2016
Wags have wondered when Texas politics might finally turn purple. Fresh signs we might be closing in on grape season – we’ll have the details. Plus: Talk about guns on campus, but is anyone listening anymore? And: Health officials say many early deaths in Texas are preventable, or would be if not for a major missing link – the data. What needs to be done to fill in the blanks. Also: The president tries to reassure pacific leaders on a controversial trade deal, but how reassured do you feel? And: Summer, the joke’s on you. Now’s the season for serious readers. All that and then some today on the Texas Standard:

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