TEXAS VIEW: Legislators should use $33 billion surplus to meet state needs
As public policy dilemmas go, it’s not a bad one to have.
Over the next four months, the 88th Texas Legislature will wrestle with how...
TEXAS VIEW: Confederate day honors traitors who fought for slavery
Odds are, last Thursday’s state holiday came and went without most Texans noticing it.
It’s a measure of progress that few Texans celebrate Confederate Heroes...
TEXAS VIEW: Boil water notices are increasing in Texas, and we should be worried
Droughts, parched farms, ranches and instructions to water lawns less frequently are part of life in Texas. Unfortunately, so too are aging, neglected water...
TEXAS VIEW: Lawmakers, don’t blow Texas’ $32.7 billion surplus
For the Texas Legislature, having too much money to spend may turn out to be as big a challenge as not having enough.
Lawmakers returning...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas Senate’s press ban is bad for our state
Texas lawmakers are back to work in Austin. And they’ve got a lot of work to do. The state has a record-breaking surplus that...
TEXAS VIEW: Lawmakers must defeat anti-LGBTQ agenda at Texas Capitol
The 88th Texas Legislature convened recently with Republicans making clear they plan to spend yet another session targeting the state’s LGBTQ community at the...
TEXAS VIEW: Take the money and plug, orphan wells mess with Texas
You wouldn’t expect to find a 60-acre saltwater lake in the middle of a parched stretch of land in West Texas.
Then again, referring to...
TEXAS VIEW: Paxton’s request for gender changes on driver’s licenses poses privacy issues
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Once again, it looks as if Ken Paxton and his office have taken the attorney general’s role too far, this time infringing on...
TEXAS VIEW: Fentanyl crisis isn’t a talking point
Here’s how you die: Sitting on a couch and leaning over a coffee table in your living room, you barely have time to sit...
TEXAS VIEW: The border crisis needs solutions, leaders
The bad news at the U.S. border with Mexico keeps getting worse as growing numbers of desperate migrants pile up at ports of entry...