TEXAS VIEW: House bill rewards companies at expense of our schools
After the Texas Legislature allowed a controversial corporate property tax rebate known as Chapter 313 to expire last year, House Speaker Dade Phelan vowed...
TEXAS VIEW: Expanding Texas medical marijuana law can save lives
Roughly every four hours, Chase Bearden’s body would remind him to take his pain medication. Bearden, who broke his neck in an accident nearly...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas’ top judge is right: Politics has no place in courtrooms
When an elected official has served in office as long and with as much distinction as Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, the...
TEXAS VIEW: Are Texas wind and solar really more subsidized than oil and gas?
Roughly 15 years after derricks at the Spindletop oil field first rained black gold in southeast Texas at the turn of the 20th century,...
TEXAS VIEW: Gov. Abbott’s rush to promise a pardon for Austin killer looks bad...
Texas lawmakers spend a lot of time talking about maintaining law and order, objectively and fairly, across the whole state. That includes Gov. Greg...
TEXAS VIEW: Castner Range monument preserves, and opens, a scenic wonderland
Unseen but not unknown, Castner Range represented a hidden treasure in the West Texas town of El Paso.
That is about to change. What was...
TEXAS VIEW: Condemn hate incidents, which are on the rise in Texas
Reflecting a national trend, documented hate crimes are on the rise in Texas, and so is the promotion of racist propaganda from hate groups.
And...
TEXAS VIEW: TEA change could sink Texas school ratings
Things are about to look a lot gloomier in HISD and it has nothing to do with the state takeover. It has to do...
TEXAS VIEW: The GOP should leave Texas cities alone
Each legislative session for at least the past eight years, Republican state lawmakers have clamped down on the ability of Texas cities — especially...