TEXAS VIEW: Barbs and barbed wire won’t solve issues at the border
The federal government spends $25 billion each year to police the border with Mexico. Yet, Gov. Greg Abbott thinks Texas taxpayers should spend upwards...
TEXAS VIEW: If lawmakers offer school choice pilot program, here’s why Gov. Abbott should...
Texas lawmakers have been debating the merits of school choice, or education savings programs, for weeks. A sweeping plan passed in the Senate but...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas daycare centers and parents need help
If a budget is a ranking of state spending priorities, then assuring quality daycare for Texas children and relief for their cash-strapped working parents...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas can do much more to fight hate, racist terror
The massacre at an Allen outlet mall presents many challenges, and one of the most difficult will be confronting the extremism that appeared to...
TEXAS VIEW: If kids are getting high from gas-station gummies, Texas needs to act
We’ve seen it with fentanyl, brightly colored pills that can be deadly to an unsuspecting user. When the drug is cannabis, that’s not nearly...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas foster care needs money to keep kids safe
Why?
That’s the question that advocates for Texas children who are neglected, abandoned, abused and in need of a safe place to live ask almost...
TEXAS VIEW: Gov. Abbott, you must act on gun violence
Gov. Abbott,
Eight more innocent people were killed in Texas Saturday. This time it was a shopping mall. They were simply going about their day,...
TEXAS VIEW: Politics putting Texas mothers’ lives at risk
The lives of low-income Texas mothers are at greater risk because the Texas Senate, led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, has slowed down consideration...
TEXAS VIEW: Protecting Texas’ electric grid shouldn’t jack up energy bills
Imagine you’re a kid starting a lemonade stand. You take on all the risk, using your allowance to buy lemons, sugar and plastic cups....
TEXAS VIEW: Let’s keep religion out of public schools
Texas lawmakers are concerned about the content children could be exposed to in public school libraries, but have moved forward with separate pieces of...