Rhonda Fanning
Rhonda is the newest member of the KUT News team, joining in late 2013 as producer for KUT's new daily news program, The Texas Standard. Rhonda will forever be known as the answer to the trivia question, “Who was the first full-time hire for The Texas Standard?” She’s an Iowa native who got her start in public radio at WFSU in Tallahassee, while getting her Master's Degree in Library Science at Florida State University. Prior to joining KUT and The Texas Standard, Rhonda was a producer for Wisconsin Public Radio.
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From Texas Standard: The Supreme Court tied Thursday morning in a ruling on the legality of President Barack Obama’s immigration program. The ruling...
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From Texas Standard: Around this time last year, it appeared that Texas would play an outsized role in the 2016 race for the White House. A Texas...
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From Texas Standard: One phrase often heard this year: There's never been a political year like 2016. But that’s not exactly true. Lauren Fox writes for...
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From Texas Standard: Last May, nine people were killed, 20 injured and 177 people were arrested in a biker shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco....
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From Texas Standard: The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has long fought extradition to face drug charges in the U.S. but that’s changed.
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From Texas Standard: This morning the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed the second and final felony charge of abuse of power against former Gov....
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From Texas Standard: House Bill 11, passed during the 2015 legislative session, is a sweeping law pitched as part of a broader $800 million border secur...
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From Texas Standard: In November, state district Judge Judy Kocurek was shot in the driveway of her Austin home – a murder attempt that had been precede...
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From Texas Standard: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has vowed to beat the odds and quash online sports gambling. Even if you don't play daily fantasy...
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From Texas Standard: Gov. Greg Abbott is on his third official international trip since being sworn in last January. Yesterday in Jerusalem, the Governo...