Christopher Connelly is a KERA reporter based in Fort Worth. Christopher joined KERA after a year and a half covering the Maryland legislature for WYPR, the NPR member station in Baltimore. Before that, he was a Joan B. Kroc Fellow at NPR – one of three post-graduates who spend a year working as a reporter, show producer and digital producer at network HQ in Washington, D.C.
Road trips are not just about where you're going, of course, but also where you stop along the way: maybe an antique store, fruit stand or five and dime. In this month's edition of Texas Highways magazine, you can find 15 of the best mom & pop shops across the state. Also: Immigration enforcement is a federal function, but Texas authorities have been transporting migrants for months. Now, the ACLU wants the federal government to look into it. And: The City of Houston recently collected more than 800 firearms as part of a gun buyback program – but will that make the city any safer?
All that and more today on the Texas Standard:
Dallas County will soon become the third county in Texas required to offer voting materials in Vietnamese and recruit poll workers who speak the language. That’s after the Census Bureau issued its twice-a-decade determinations of voters’ language needs in local election jurisdictions across the country.
The banking industry took in more than $15 billion in overdraft fees in 2019, and just small number of account holders paid the vast majority of those fees.