What the Heck is the Railroad Commission of Texas?

By Texas Standard

Published January 24, 2018 at 9:56 AM CST

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David Prindle, a political science professor at UT-Austin, published a detailed history of the Railroad Commission of Texas in 1981.

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Spoiler alert: it has little to do with railroads.