Location:
San Antonio, TX
Networks:
Texas PR
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
Texas Matters: 'Fumed'-A Texas stand-off
3/28/2025
Texas Matters: Part 4 of 'Fumed' - A Texas stand-off. 'Fumed' is an investigative podcast about the people who live in Channelview, the shadows of America’s chemical plants and oil refineries.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: 'Fumed'-Activating the unlikely activists
3/21/2025
In partnership with Public Health Watch, TPR is airing "Fumed," an investigative podcast series. It's about Channelview, an unincorporated community outside Houston and in the heart of America’s petrochemical industry.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: 'Fumed'-Part 2
3/14/2025
Texas Public Radio’s Texas Matters is bringing you part two of an investigative podcast series about Channelview, an unincorporated community outside Houston and in the heart of America’s petrochemical industry. The series is from our partners at Public Health Watch – a nonprofit newsroom, is called Fumed.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: 'Fumed'
3/7/2025
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 County.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: Tractor-trailer smuggling trial and questions raised about the 'Desert Killer'
2/28/2025
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.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: Measles outbreak worsens and abortion ban proves deadly for Texas women
2/21/2025
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.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: Protesting the Elon Musk lay-offs; migrant shelters empty out; arts in the Texas economy
2/14/2025
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?
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: Solving the water problem
2/7/2025
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.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: How mass deportations impact Texas agriculture
1/24/2025
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.”
Duration:00:29:22
Texas Matters: A progressive agenda for the Texas Legislature
1/17/2025
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.
Duration:00:29:22
Texas Matters: Why Texas highway flyovers are so high
1/10/2025
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?
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: Mexican American voices in Texas music
1/2/2025
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.
Duration:00:29:22
Texas Matters: Abbott's border wall is failing; How a predator became a town's police chief
12/20/2024
This week on Texas Matters —Governor Greg Abbott unveils a new border security strategy. How the state’s multi-billion-dollar border wall is failing. And a Texas town is recovering from a police chief who used his authority to sexually abuse young girls.
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: The emergency powers Trump can use for mass deportations
12/13/2024
President-elect Donald Trump promised to declare illegal immigration a national emergency on the first day of his new term. He has said he will invoke both the Insurrection Act and the Alien Enemies Act—which could allow him to deploy the military. We hear from Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. She he has just published “How Trump Could Deploy the Military for Mass Deportation.”
Duration:00:29:23
Texas Matters: Can Texas make THC illegal again?
12/6/2024
Ban all THC from Texas—that’s what Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants this coming legislative session.Patrick says since 2023, thousands of stores selling THC products popped up across the state, and many of these products are getting in the hands of children. But will a ban work?
Duration:00:29:00
Texas Matters: How the abortion ban hurts women's health
11/29/2024
Texas women are paying the price for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. More stories are coming to light of Texas women dying from treatable crisis pregnancies. Meanwhile the state’s Maternal Mortality task force announced it’s going to ignore maternal deaths for 2022 and 2023. And how OB-GYNs are fleeing the state due to fear of the state’s anti-abortion law.
Duration:00:29:00
Texas Matters: Gov. Richard Coke's dark legacy
11/22/2024
Richard Coke, the 15th governor of Texas, is a pivotal and controversial figure in post-Civil War Texas. Rosser Newton has written a book about his ancestor called “Richard Coke: Texan.”
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: Stories about welcoming migrants
11/15/2024
Today on Texas Matters: Stories about helping asylum seekers from the Interfaith Welcome Coalition and their book "Traveling Mercies."And one Texas death row inmate—who could be innocent—is closer to being executed while another death row inmate, thought to be innocent, is a step closer to being freed.
Duration:00:28:58
Texas Matters: Trump's mass deportation plan
11/1/2024
Republican Donald Trump promises, if elected, on day one he’ll sign orders for his mass deportation plan. Anyone in the country who is not a U.S. Citizen could be targeted to be removed. The plan calls for millions of people to be deported using the Alien Enemies Act. And this has happened before. What can we learn about Trump’s deportation by looking at history?
Duration:00:28:59
Texas Matters: AG Paxton distorts record of Robert Roberson case
10/25/2024
This week on Texas Matters: Is Attorney General Ken Paxton perverting the facts about the death of baby Nikki and the looming execution of Robert Roberson? In a report to the public about the Roberson case, the AG Office made a number of untrue and debunked statements about the death of Nikki, Roberson and his trial. We get a response from Roberson’s attorney Gretchen Sween.
Duration:00:28:59
