Today on Texas Standard: Abortion rights, gun control take center stage at Texas Democratic convention
Texas voters haven’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since the 1990s; Dems occupy just 64 of 150 Texas House seats and only 12 of the 31 Texas Senate seats. Every other year, the party… The Texas Standard is set to air on June 10, 2024. The convention of the Texas Democratic Convention is taking place in El Paso, where Democrats have not been elected to statewide office since the 1990s. A change in Texas’ Medicaid contracting rules would eliminate several major nonprofit health plans from the program and force some two million low-income Texans covered by these plans to find new coverage. The University of Texas at Austin is starting disciplinary proceedings against students arrested at pro-Palestinian protests. The Dallas Mavericks' road to an NBA championship has become even more difficult after losing their second game to Boston. An archive of a 1938 radio program shows Maury Maverick's political influence in San Antonio.
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Texas voters haven’t elected a Democrat to statewide office since the 1990s; Dems occupy just 64 of 150 Texas House seats and only 12 of the 31 Texas Senate seats.
Every other year, the party’s leaders and delegates meet to discuss how they could turn those numbers around. The Texas Newsroom’s Julián Aguilar joins the Standard with his takeaways from the 2024 Texas Democratic Convention in El Paso.
Texas wants to remove these popular nonprofit health plans from Medicaid coverage
A change in Texas’ Medicaid contracting rules would eliminate several major nonprofit health plans from the program and force some two million low-income Texans covered by those plans to find new coverage. Late last week, state officials rejected pleas to reconsider the changes and allow them to continue as Medicaid providers.
Texas Tribune reporter Karen Brooks Harper joins the Standard with the story.
The University of Texas at Austin has started disciplinary proceedings against students arrested at pro-Palestinian protests held on campus in previous months.
On the trail of the stolen smoker with Daniel Vaughan
When the owners of Fort Worth’s Panther City BBQ discovered their smoker was missing, they weren’t willing to take “gone” for an answer. What happened was arguably a taste of Texas justice.
Daniel Vaughan, barbecue editor for Texas Monthly, joins us with this culinary whodunnit.
Mavs fall into 0-2 hole against the Celtics in the NBA Finals
The Dallas Mavericks’ road to an NBA championship has become even more treacherous after dropping their second game to Boston last night.
The Texas Standard’s Michael Marks gives us an update on what went wrong for the Mavs and how they can prepare as Game 3 shifts to their home court.
Everything you ever wanted to know about cochineal insects
Wizzie Brown is a program specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and our go-to insect expert.
Something bugging you? Send the Standard your insect questions and we’ll pass them along.
An archive of a 1938 radio program shows a different side of the then-mayor of San Antonio, Maury Maverick
The word “maverick” gets tossed around a lot – but there was a real Maverick who was known for being a political wildcard from San Antonio in the 1930’s.
Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies shows us how Maury Maverick was a national celebrity in the heyday of radio.
When troops’ remains are identified from long-ago wars, it’s getting harder to find family members
More families are being reunited with remains of relatives who died in long-ago wars. Advances in anthropology and DNA technology have allowed the Army to identify about 200 sets of remains each year, dating back to World War II.
But the passage of time has complicated the process of finding families to accept the remains. Jay Price reports for the American Homefront Project.
All this, plus the Texas Newsroom’s state roundup and Wells Dunbar with the Talk of Texas.
Onderwerpen: Social Issues, Abortion, DNC, Second Amendment