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6 days ago | 
texasstandard.org | Alexandra Hart
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced earlier this month that he is launching a primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn for his seat in the U.S. Senate. Now, Texans want to know who will fill Paxton’s place as the highest legal officer of the state. One name garnering a lot of attention is Texas Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Republican from Galveston who announced his bid for attorney general earlier this week.
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1 month ago | 
dentonrc.com | Alexandra Hart
In the wake of Texas’ 2019 hemp legalization measure, a booming industry of consumable hemp products has cropped up. It generates, by some estimates, around $8 billion a year in revenue. But Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has made one thing clear: Consumable hemp products with psychoactive THC need to go. He’s said banning the sale of intoxicating cannabis products is one of his top legislative priorities this session. Senate Bill 3, authored by Republican Sen. Charles Perry, would do just that.
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1 month ago | 
biorxiv.org | Jordan Wilson |Jiayi Zhu |Simon Lam |Alexandra Hart
AbstractInhibitors of the protein kinase WEE1 have emerged as promising agents for cancer therapy. In this study, we uncover synergistic interactions between WEE1 small-molecule inhibitors and defects in mRNA translation, mediated by activation of the integrated stress response (ISR) through the kinase GCN2. Using a pooled CRISPRi screen, we identify GSPT1 and ALKBH8 as factors whose depletion confer hypersensitivity to the WEE1 inhibitor, AZD1775.
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1 month ago | 
texasstandard.org | Alexandra Hart |Raul Alonzo
Talk to many a Texan and you’ll learn pretty quickly that can matter quite a lot where you are. Say you hear there’s rain in North Texas. Well, where does North Texas end and the Panhandle begin? What about Northeast Texas? Plenty of folks call that region East Texas. Are they one and the same? Two distinct regions? Speaking of East Texas, what about Houston? Is that East Texas or Southeast? Gulf Coast? Its own thing entirely?
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1 month ago | 
readunwritten.com | Alexandra Hart
If you grew up with a disabled sibling who had a chronic illness or any condition that required different care and attention, you might have been what’s known as a glass child. The term doesn’t mean you were fragile but often invisible. People could see right through you because so much focus was on your sibling. Your needs, emotions, and struggles were usually on the back burner.
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1 month ago | 
dentonrc.com | Alexandra Hart
The Texas Lottery is getting a lot of attention from lawmakers right now. When it surfaced that a recent jackpot-winning ticket was bought through a third-party “courier service,” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick went to investigate the store where the ticket was printed. He posted a video to social media pointing out that the store was connected to the third-party app Jackpocket that sold the ticket — both owned by gambling company DraftKings.
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2 months ago | 
dentonrc.com | Alexandra Hart
A recent report from realtor.com projects that the Lone Star State is poised to become the most populous state in the U.S. by 2045, taking the top honor from California. With more and more people moving here, a big question is: Where will everybody live? Housing affordability is an issue, with 90% of respondents in a recent University of Houston/Texas Southern University poll saying housing costs are either a big problem or somewhat of a problem. So how is the market responding?
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2 months ago | 
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña |Alexandra Hart
Every four years or so, the American Society of Civil Engineers releases a list of grades assessing the country’s infrastructure. Each state also gets its own report card, and the ASCE Texas Section this week released its report on the state of Texas’ roads, bridges, dams and more. For analysis on the state’s infrastructure, the Texas Standard was joined by Austin Messerli, co-chair of the report. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
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2 months ago | 
dentonrc.com | Sean Saldaña |Alexandra Hart
Texas doesn’t have a state law requiring employers to provide parental leave, though federal law does provide some protections for parental leave, and most state agency policies provide some paid parental leave options. For clarity on how this works, Texas Standard was joined by Taylor Goldenstein, a state bureau reporter with the Houston Chronicle.
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2 months ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Alexandra Hart
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President Trump is expected to announce new tariffs, this time targeting aluminum and steel imports into the United States. This comes after he previously announced tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada , though the latter two are currently on hold. These moves are expected to have economic ripple effects across many industries. Matt Smith, energy analyst for Kpler, spoke with the Texas Standard’s Laura Rice about how tariffs and sanctions could shape the energy industry.
