Texas Matters
Summary: 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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The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the...
It’s been over 4 years since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and BP oil spill. The underwater gusher pumped crude into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days...
Texas is certainly the Lone Star State – but it appears to be composed of two different states. One for the wealthy and the other for the impoverished...
Anti-fracking activists took their concerns to the voters of Denton, Texas in the recent November general election and passed a city fracking ban. It...
A new report released this week adds to the growing evidence that the chemicals associated with fracking and horizontal drilling could be a danger to...
Sometime in November the one billionth barrel of oil was pumped out of the Eagle Ford Shale play – that’s according to the research firm Wood Mackenzie...
Texas continues to be a hot bed for testing what can be done with a gutted Voting Rights Act. This week five residents of Pasadena Texas filed a...
Texas continues to be a hot bed for testing what can be done with a gutted Voting Rights Act. This week five residents of Pasadena Texas filed a...
Five state agencies that deal with the economically deprived and otherwise vulnerable or underserved sections of Texas society, could soon become one...
Five state agencies that deal with the economically deprived and otherwise vulnerable or underserved sections of Texas society, could soon become one...
During the recent voting process in Texas polling officials were dealing with the implementation of Voter I.D. Voters had to provide photo...
During the recent voting process in Texas polling officials were dealing with the implementation of Voter I.D. Voters had to provide photo...
Low voter turnout, questions about Latino participation and the power of the primary; it all adds up to another lopsided victory for the Republican...
Low voter turnout, questions about Latino participation and the power of the primary; it all adds up to another lopsided victory for the Republican...
Tuesday night, November 4, Texans picked new office holders. There was little surprise that republicans again swept the state and Attorney General Greg...
