David Martin Davies

On This episode of "Texas Matters":

• There's too much plutonium in Texas. The Pantex facility near Amarillo has so much of the nuclear material that it has exceeded storage capacity. 
• We look at the forgotten episode in the Great Depression when 500,000 Mexicans and Mexican Americas were forced out of the nation. We'll revisit how the story was covered at the time by three newspapers in San Antonio (09:30).

On this episode of “Texas Matters”:

• How are anti-Trump activists preparing for the possibility that President Trump will fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller?
• New data shows that the Texas maternal mortality problem isn’t as bad as it was thought. So now what (11:10)?
• How the Farm Bill could take away benefits from the poor in Texas (22:50).

On this episode of "Texas Matters":

• We talk to Bryan Mealer, author of  "The Kings of Big Spring." 
• Then Jose Antonio Rodriguez stops by to discuss his book, "House Built on Ashes" (13:00).
• And finally, "The Talented Ribkins" is reviewed by contributor Yvette Benavides (23:11).

On this episode of Texas Matters we look at:

• Ten years later: the children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch raid remembered.
• The impact of the citizenship question on the Texas census count (12:00).
• Commentator Yvette Benavides looks at the Parkland shooting, the "March For Our Lives" and her own classroom (22:00).

On this episode of Texas Matters, we look at:

• The economy of Texas cattle drives. 
• As San Antonio celebrates its tricentennial, we at two stories, beginning with a look at the art of 1718 (10:00).
• Then, as the Alamo City celebrates its 300th birthday, there will more than a little tequila used in the celebration. Here's the story behind that smooth and firey inebriant and its tie to San Antonio (19:45).