Texas Matters: The politics of data centers
This week on Texas Matters— How data centers have become a hot-button issue this political cycle and how that controversy could tip the rura...
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20 of 31 episodesFormer Austin Mayor Steve Adler reflects on the capital city's explosive growth, homelessness and threats to democracy
During his time as mayor of Austin from 2015 through 2023, the capital city grew by 20%, saw homelessness become a crisis and faced off agai...
Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' Episode 3 — Investigating the Camp Mystic deaths
Nearly a year after the July 4, 2025, floods in the Texas Hill Country, the families of children and counselors killed at Camp Mystic are st...
Texas Matters: 'After The Flood' — Part 2
It has been one year since the tragic flash flood on the upper Guadalupe River that took over 117 lives. Why were local officials caught off...
Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' tells the story of the deadly 2025 Hill Country floods
The Texas Newsroom and FRONTLINE (PBS) are collaborating on a new five-part podcast series, After the Flood, an intimate and deeply reported...
Texas Matters: TX Ag Commissioner Sid Miller blasts screwworm response and why Texas isn't producing more oil
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the screwworm will continue to spread unless officials adopt a more aggressive response. Also...
Texas Matters: Canadian mother says Dilley ICE detention center is a 'prison,' not a family facility
The ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, is again at the center of a national fight over the detention of migrant families and children. B...
James Talarico and the race for U.S. Senate
This week on Texas Matters we hear from the Democratic nominee for Senate — James Talarico. We also hear from Scott Braddock about the race...
Texas Matters: SB4 is blocked, and West Texas border wall moves forward
This week on Texas Matters: Sections of SB4 are blocked — which would have allowed local police to arrest suspected illegal border crossers....
Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two
“Pass the Politics Pappy” explores the remarkable political rise of W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, a flour salesman who used his popular radio sho...
Texas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal
This week on Texas Matters: How the Trump administration is watering down FEMA. The prison system's compassionate release program is called...
Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case
This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny...
Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas
This week on Texas Matters — The story of Texas that we typically hear is one with a conservative bias.But there are parts of Texas history...
Texas Matters: Larry McMurtry and the making of the modern Texas myth
This week on "Texas Matters," the life and writing of Larry McMurtry and how he refined the myths of being a Texan. David Streitfeld has wri...
Texas Matters: Music from behind the walls of Texas prisons
This week on Texas Matters — forgotten songs from Texas prisons. Heartfelt tracks written, performed, and recorded by incarcerated men. The...
Texas Matters: How Texas got religion
Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives. Every Sunday hundreds of megachurches fill up and celebrate the...
Texas Matters: The meaning of the Spanish missions in San Antonio
Today on Texas Matters: The old Spanish missions of San Antonio — 300 years of history, community memory and meaning. Joel Daniel Kitchens i...
Texas Matters: 1964, Civil Rights and the Lady Bird Special
In October 1964, as the South simmered under the tensions following the signing of the Civil Rights Act three months earlier, First Lady, La...
Texas Matters: CAIR refutes Texas claim of pushing Sharia law and terrorism
Governor Greg Abbott and other Republican state leaders are targeting CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Abbott has signed a p...
Texas Matters: How Texans experience violence
Today on Texas Matters — A first-of-its-kind survey shows how Texans experience violence. And how changes at the post office can impact the...