Brazos Matters

Join host Jay Socol for Brazos Matters, a KAMU original production featuring a variety of guests from the Bryan-College Station and Aggieland community. Discussions focus on healthcare, education, economic development, traffic management, quality of life and other topics important to residents and businesses.

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  Brazos Matters: Is Homeownership Still Within Reach? Housing Affordability with the Texas Real Estate Research Center

  Aug 9, 202628 minS0

  <p>Can a 25-year-old graduate student today realistically expect to own a home someday? In this episode of "Brazos Matters," host Jay Socol and student contributor Kaleigh Mazy '26 dig into that very anxious, very common sentiment with two guests from the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University: Research Director Daniel Oney and Research Economist Yanling Mayer.<br><br>The pair explain what "housing affordability" really measures beyond sticker price — mortgage rates, property taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs — and challenge the assumption that Texas is still the budget-friendly haven it once was; the state's cumulative price appr...

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  Brazos Matters: Rethinking Justice with College Station Municipal Court Judge Ed Spillane

  Jul 26, 202628 minS0

  <p>Ten years ago, College Station Municipal Court Judge Edward Spillane III wrote a Washington Post op-ed — ""Why I Refuse to Send People to Jail for Failure to Pay Fines"" — that struck a national nerve and pushed cities across the country to rethink how they treat people who genuinely can't afford their fines. In this episode of “Brazos Matters,” host Jay Socol and student contributor Kaleigh Mazy ’26 ask Judge Spillane to look back on what's changed since then — and what hasn't. Spillane, who has presided over College Station's municipal court since 2002, walks through the roughly 30,000 Class-C misdemeanor cases his court handles each...

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  Brazos Matters: How TEEX’s Public Safety Wellness Program is addressing PTSD in first responders

  Jul 12, 202628 minS0

  <p>An estimated 400,000 first responders across America are living with symptoms of PTSD — yet stigma, cost, and scheduling keep many from ever asking for help. In this episode of "Brazos Matters," host Jay Socol and student contributor Kaleigh Mazy sit down with Alisa McDonald, program director of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service's (TEEX) Public Safety Wellness Program, to discuss how first responders process trauma — and what's being done to support them. Alisa, a licensed professional counselor who came to TEEX from the Texas Department of Public Safety, was tasked from day one with a daunting mission: help end firs...

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  Jennifer Nations, Water Resource Coordinator, City of College Station

  Jun 28, 202628 minS0

  <p>Jennifer Nations, Water Resource Coordinator, City of College Station discusses her role with the city, water availability, student awareness of water conservation, local water quality, wastewater challenges, scaling water infrastructure with population growth, irrigation check-ups, incentivizing water conservation, & water conservation practices at Jennifer's home.</p>

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  May 2026 Graduating Seniors

  Jun 14, 202628 minS0

  <p>Victoria Taylor, Sarah Lankford, and Giulia Goerigk discuss their experiences as student athletes in the Texas A&M Swimming program, their paths to A&M, majors at A&M, how they got acclimated to college, hosting team recruits, what inspired them to be swimmers, culture shocks encountered when coming to A&M, things that they would have liked their freshman selves to know, what they would have done differently in college, greatest challenges, things they will miss about College Station, how A&M has prepared them for the future, and their post-grad plans.</p>

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