Opinion: Texas Needs to Access Federal Health Care Funds
The pandemic and resulting economic dislocations are creating significant fiscal challenges for the state and local governments. In particular, the budgetary process in the...
Is It Reckoning Time For Texas Democrats?
In 2024, it will be 30 years since a Democrat was last elected to a statewide office in Texas.
Much has changed during those intervening...
Difficult Conversations About ‘The Knee’ Necessary to Move Texas Forward
What’s it going to take? Black men — and those who care for us — are choking on these words. What’s it going to...
Opinion: Medicaid Expansion Good for Business
Say you were told that every dollar you contribute toward a cause would be matched with $9. Sounds like a pretty good deal, doesn’t...
Texas knew a pandemic was coming. We had a plan. But then the Legislature...
Every now and then, the state of Texas almost — almost — does the right thing.
Back in 2014, after the Ebola epidemic, the Texas Senate...
Dear Texas: You Can’t Eat Cultural and Social Issues
If you’ve read Biden’s Build Back Better bill (BBB) and you’re familiar with the economic demographics in Texas, it’s easy to see that Texas...
Opinion: Protecting the Right to Vote More Important Than Ever Before
For the greater part of 2020, the public health emergency brought on by the onset of a novel coronavirus has caused an array of...
Opinion: November Offers Choice to End Gun Violence or Maintaining Status Quo
We are coming upon an election that will determine our path not only for the next four years but for the foreseeable future, and...
Opinion: The Bid for a Fascist Texas is Happening Now
I am fairly certain that the Texas abortion law before the Supreme Court will be struck down. I am equally certain that it will...
Trust, But Verify
“Trust, but verify” seems like a contradiction in terms, and especially when readers consider the source of that truism.
I’ve been dismayed by the spin...
