Editorial: Charging the parents of school shooters should become standard practice
Editorial: Veteran, politician, Kansan: We mourn Bob Dole — and his spirit of compromise
Editorial: Why fentanyl?
Commentary: How About a Newspaper Subscription for Christmas?
My access to news narrowed dramatically when I was 10 years old. My mother’s boss passed away, so I no longer got to peruse his morning paper. And, despite my protestations about prying …
-
Commentary: The powerful message behind charging the parents in the Michigan school shooting
The latest school shooting tragedy, in Michigan on Nov. 30, shares many common traits with those that …
-
Commentary: What happens when angry polarization takes over school boards and local government?
Why in the world would anyone enter public service in 2021? After all, the scenes have become familiar: …
-
Analysis: Texas’ population has changed much faster than its political maps
With new political maps like these, it would have been surprising if the U.S. Department of Justice had …
-
Commentary: This creepy little elf doesn’t celebrate my holiday
Lately, I’ve started seeing all the usual Christmas decorations, books, gift suggestions, …
-
Commentary: Where are voting rights and justice reform?
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer-winning journalist and creator of The New York Times' 1619 Project, …
-
Commentary: Dole had respect for his rivals
Bob Dole first emerged as a national figure in the early 1970s, defending President Richard …
-
-
Commentary: Four more children dead, and a nation shrugs
Families in Michigan will set an empty place at the table this holiday season in the wake of the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left …
-
Commentary: Why are blue-collar Americans dying of despair?
This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been …
-
Commentary: Opening primaries is a necessary first step toward bigger reforms
If there were a silver bullet for democratic reform, you think we would have found it by now. With countries around the world experimenting with …
-
Analysis: The Texas-Mexico frontier still tops the news — and state politics
Undocumented immigrants haven’t killed 72,808 Texans during the last two years, like COVID-19 did through Dec. 2. Immigrants haven’t brought …
-
Commentary: Don’t lose more holidays: COVID isolation meant my friend died without meeting my son
Two weeks ago, I attended the funeral of a dear lady who had befriended me when I first arrived in Fort Worth eight years ago. She was nearly 81 …
-
-
-
-
Commentary: There’s No Cure For Covidiocy
If only I had a magic wand, I would henceforth consign all conspiracy freaks and vaccine refuseniks (78 million in number) to some distant …
-
Commentary: Reforming the Electoral Count Act is the best way to get back on track
Being able to read a map is a good thing. Writing a map to overthrow American elections, not so much. This past summer, my teen and I took a …
-
Commentary: Unsettling our 'settled' abortion law
Virtually every unofficial U.S. Supreme Court watcher has reported feeling a chill wind of political reality and pending change as it whipped …
-
Commentary: Are public meetings getting stale? How one city made public meetings more participatory
Picture this: You're at a public meeting. Members of the public share concerns at the microphone, with a timer buzzing if they talk too long. …
-
Commentary: Four more children dead, and a nation shrugs
Families in Michigan will set an empty place at the table this holiday season in the wake of the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left …
-
-
-
-
Letter: Book battle screams 'McCarthy-ism'
Governor Abbott and Representative Matt Krause are using tactics from Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s when he screamed there are communists …
-
Letters: "Too-quickly-sketchy 'vaccine'" is socialism
Way to use 9/11 to try to guilt people to get the too-quickly-sketchy 'vaccine', to 'protect' others..even though people with the vaccine are …
-
-
-
Letter: The elephant in the room
Can we talk about the other elephant in the school board meeting of “that” Central Texas suburb in Austin? I am not talking about COVID, …
-
-
-
LETTER: It’s time to abolish the filibuster
Every senator who protects the filibuster is guilty of protecting a Jim Crow relic that was used to block civil rights legislation for decades. …
-
-
-
LETTERS: Sweetheart deal
Residents of Cedar Park will have an increase in their bills from PEC because CP has doubled the franchise fee from 2% to 4%. While causing …
-
-
-
An open letter to Cedar Park voters
An Open Letter to Cedar Park Voters We have a city election on May 1. Early voting will begin April 19 and conclude on April 27.
-
-
