Texas Matters
Fridays at 12:30 p.m. & Sundays at 9:30 p.m.
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.
Latest Episodes
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This week on Texas Matters: Why are horrible photos from Uvalde and other mass shootings being published? Despite what the Supreme Court ruled, homosexuality is still against the law in Texas. And how is the new Texas “show me your papers law” going to impact the state?
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Is Texas an ultraviolent state? Why are certain types of violence more common in Texas than in other parts of the industrialized world?
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This week on Texas Matters: Brent Brewer says he’s sorry for a murder he committed 33 years ago but says junk science is why he's on Texas Death Row.
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For centuries, the shoreline between Galveston and Tallahassee was marked by the desperate deeds of men who fought for God, gold, and glory.The Gulf Coast has seen its share of seafaring warriors and miscreants.
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Today on Texas Matters: In a major reversal – the border wall is back – now under President Biden. How Texas school children see the banning of books and how an album changed Texas music 50 years ago.
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After the Uvalde school massacre, the slow walking of the firing of a Texas Ranger spotlights the lack of transparency about how the DPS failed. With rapid growth during a record drought, what can be done to keep the Texas Hill Country from running out of water? And book bans in Texas are getting worse.
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Today on Texas Matters: Ken Paxton strikes back. After being acquitted from impeachment charges the Texas Attorney General is promising to crush his political enemies. Also, why are Venezuelans coming to the border en masse, and how is TPS going to help many of the Venezuelan asylum seekers?
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Today on Texas Matters—The buoys are back – in fact they never left. What is happening with the legal battle over the border barrier? How to get paid for tweeting about Ken Paxton. It could be illegal.And Mark Gonzalez—the Corpus Christi progressive D.A. is now running for Senate.
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This week on Texas Matters: a look at some of the new laws now in effect in Texas and some of the significant ones that didn’t. And gearing up for the Ken Paxton Senate impeachment trial. Will Texas voters watch and care?
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Today on Texas Matters: Some scary hours with the Texas grid during the summer heat. What is happening? And Republican candidates for president say they’ll invade Mexico. Why that is a terrible idea?