Texas Matters David Martin Davies
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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 spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.
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Texas Matters: Corpus Christi is tapped out
Hillcrest in Corpus Christi is a historic African American neighborhood that has long faced environmental racism but is now confronting displacement from a massive desalination project. Environmentalists point out that the desal, hyper-salty brine discharge will be very harmful to the bay and shouldn’t be built.
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Texas Matters: The Great American Eclipse of 1878
The last time a total solar eclipse crossed Central Texas was in 1878 – the heyday of the Wild West. That eclipse was crucially important to America’s rise as a scientific power and saw many of the era’s great scientists (including Thomas Edison) trek out to unsettled lands to witness the event firsthand. On April 8, Texas gets another gander at a solar eclipse—but this time without the train robberies and frontier backdrop.
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Texas Matters: How electric co-ops energized rural Texas and recovery after the wildfires
Today on Texas Matters: The largest wildfire in Texas history torches over a million acres. How you can help in the recovery. And how the electric co-op movement energized rural Texas.
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Texas Matters: AG Paxton's office in disarray
Today on Texas Matters: Turmoil in the attorney general’s office is ripping apart the AG Medicaid Fraud Division.With Abortion on the ballot Annie’s List sees 2024 as a big year to elect progressive women. And money is running out for the Affordable Connectivity Program.
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Texas Matters: Unfair school finance and Golden Pennies
Many Texas families have been fighting for school funding equity for 50 years. But wide disparities in funding still exist. Texas Public Radio's education reporter, Camille Phillips, explains the problem and why it's been difficult to solve.
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Texas Matters: The COVID surge, border buoys and hidden treasure
This week on Texas Matters: Covid cases are on the rise. How Texans can protect themselves with a vaccination.What does it mean that the Texas buoys are still in the Rio Grande? The Texas Tribune launches a pro-democracy reporting project. And there’s a million-dollar treasure hidden somewhere in Texas or New Mexico. Are you smart enough to find it?
Customer Reviews
Texas point of view
Love the Texas point of view. Let’s me know what’s going on and is very informative. I look forward to this every week. This gives more then the one sided views that I usually see which is very refreshing. Love
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Pro Democrat Left Political Views
I’d like to find a review of Texas current events or even politics from an even footing set of views, and this one is not it. It has a clean production quality, and mimics an NPR or publicly funded podcast, which says a lot about those formats as well, regarding the lens from which they see and report on the world in politics.
I wouldn’t censor this, I would say they should not hide there stripes. Left wing media should announce their reporters views and promote their left-ness for what it is so listeners can decide better what they want to hear.