Texas Matters

Mar 07 2025 20 ep. 29 mins 341
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Texas is a big state with a growing, diverse population and as the population grows, the issues and challenges facing its residents multiply. Texas Matters is a statewide news program that spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.

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Texas Matters: 'Fumed'

Mar 07 2025 28 mins  
This week on Texas Matters—We are partnering with Public Health Watch to air a special presentation of their podcast “Fumed.” We will hear the stories of people who live in the shadows of America’s chemical plants and oil refineries. We'll also hear about the tale of two stubborn Texans as they try to salvage what’s left of their working-class community in East Harris Cou

Texas Matters: Tractor-trailer smuggling trial and questions raised about the 'Desert Killer'

Feb 28 2025 28 mins  
Today on Texas Matters—In 2022, 53 migrants were found dead in the back of a trailer. New details about that deadly journey are emerging. Also—David Leonard Wood is being called the 'Desert Killer.' Now he is facing execution. But there are questions about his guilt.

Texas Matters: Measles outbreak worsens and abortion ban proves deadly for Texas women

Feb 21 2025 28 mins  
Today on Texas Matters: As measles continues to spread in Texas, will state leaders learn a lesson about the need for vaccine requirements? And there is more evidence that the Texas abortion ban made childbirth more dangerous. But the state doesn’t want you to know that.

Texas Matters: Protesting the Elon Musk lay-offs; migrant shelters empty out; arts in the Texas economy

Feb 14 2025 28 mins  
Today on Texas Matters—Protests are rising up across the country against the Trump/Musk administration. Migrant shelters in Texas are nearly empty. And how important are the arts to the economy of Texas?

Texas Matters: Solving the water problem

Feb 07 2025 28 mins  
Gov. Abbott is making water an emergency item. Sarah Schlessinger, the CEO of Texas Water Foundation, explains the Texas water problem and what can be done to secure water supplies to Texas' future.

Texas Matters: What Tin Pan Alley Says About Life In 'The Wild West'

Feb 01 2025 28 mins  
The song “Life in the West” became popular in the 1840s. The lyrics, written by American poet George Pope Morris, evoke the call of the fertile promised land and celebrates the freedom of living so close to nature.

Texas Matters: How mass deportations impact Texas agriculture

Jan 24 2025 29 mins  
Today on Texas Matters – How the Trump mass deportation anti-immigration crackdown could impact Texas agriculture. We hear from Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller. We also talk to Kathleen Bush-Joseph — a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, co-author of “With “Shock and Awe,” the Second Trump Term Opens with a Bid to Strongly Reshape Immigration.”

Texas Matters: A progressive agenda for the Texas Legislature

Jan 17 2025 29 mins  
Today on Texas Matters—Can a progressive agenda pass in the conservative Texas legislature? We hear the legislative plan for the Sierra Club, The AFL-CIO and Move Texas.

Texas Matters: Why Texas highway flyovers are so high

Jan 10 2025 28 mins  
We drive over them often, maybe everyday, and they still manage to take our breath away. The highway flyover interchanges that climb up into the sky. But why are they so high? And why does Texas make them higher than any other state? What does that say about us?

Texas Matters: Mexican American voices in Texas music

Jan 02 2025 29 mins  
There is a diversity of styles and musical genres embraced in the book Corazón Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music. Based on interviews with legendary recording stars and with newcomers who are crafting their own sound, Kathleen Hudson's book documents the musicians' stories.