Texas Matters: Ectopic pregnancy deaths rise, maternal mortality report delayed and ICE at polling places
This week on Texas Matters: Ectopic pregnancy deaths are increasing in Texas. Is there a link to abortion bans? The Texas Maternal Mortality...
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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 s...
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Texas Matters: Rep. Goodwin on Texas voter suppression and how the petrochemical industry burdens Gulf Coast cities
This week on Texas Matters: Will it be harder to vote in Texas in the coming midterm elections? We hear from Democratic candidate for Lt. Go...
Texas Matters: Why so many Texas schools are closing and the new 'right to repair' in Texas
This week on Texas Matters: Why are so many Texas public school campuses closing? We hear about the impact of vouchers, charter schools and...
Texas Matters: Ken Paxton corruption questions and Texas transmission lines
This week on Texas Matters: Is the Republican nominee for Senate, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, exceptionally corrupt? One group is cal...
Texas Matters: Home insurance costs skyrocket and Texas juvenile justice problems persist
Texas home insurance costs are skyrocketing and becoming a barrier for housing affordability. Rising insurance costs disproportionately burd...
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...
Former 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...