Bruce Winders News Today

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Texas has long been a place of contentious borders and cross-cultural exchange. Six national flags have flown over Texas since the 1500s, starting with European contests for the land that followed 10,000 years of Native American history there. From Spanish missions, to a French shipwreck, to a former sugarcane plantation, we visit to ask: How did Texas become Texas?

By 2026, state and city officials hope to complete construction of a museum and visitor...

The Texas Land Commissioner is at the center of growing controversies around the...

The redevelopment of the Alamo, which Bush oversees as land commissioner, has prompted pushback across the political spectrum.

Consultants on a nearly $400 million Alamo makeover project laid out a multiyear process...

Phil Collins $15M Alamo collection is flashy, but is it real? FacebookTwitterEmail Former Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and singer Phil Collins signed an agreement for Collins to donate his extensive collection of Alamo artifacts to the state of Texas. But several experts question the authenticity of several of the collection’s marquee exhibits.Julysa Sosa, Contributor/San Antonio Express-News A strip of bronze near the doors to the Alamo church allegedly marks where William B. Trav...

Historian Bruce Winders says hes repeatedly warned his superiors about the sketchy...