When Our Nightmares Become Real
A nightmare is a disturbing dream associated with negative feelings, such as anxiety or fear that awakens you. But you DO wake up and...
Texas School Accountability: Good For kids? Parents? Texas?
What’s in a name? That which we (Texans) call an accountability system would smell just as foul. My apologies to Shakespeare, but the dilemma...
Opinion: Greg Abbott Likes to Use COVID Emergency Powers, Except for Fighting COVID
Governor Greg Abbott loves to play a neat executive power game. On one hand, he has spent most of the last two years downplaying...
Opinion: Long-Term Outlook for Texas Economy Positive
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions needed to slow the spread of the virus have caused substantial harm to the economy. Even in the...
Opinion: Abbott Needs to Lead on Issue of Standardized Tests for Texas Schoolchildren
Ordinarily, when I write a column, I write to what my ego would hope to be thousands of readers. Today, however, I write to...
Texas Republicans Can’t Take The Win On Conservative Bail Reform. That’s Good News For...
Two years ago New York implemented a broad reform to its bail system, covering misdemeanors and felonies alike, intended to ensure nobody would remain...
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: Nothing New Under the Sun
With the fight to pass the Voting Rights Act of 2022, you’ve been hearing a lot about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Just...
Opinion: TEA Insistence on STAAR Testing During Pandemic is Outrageous
In psychology, there is an important theory called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. In a nutshell, Abraham Maslow theorized that people are motivated by five...
Austin’s Geothermal Opportunity: Clean Energy Leadership Meets Job Creation
If you had the opportunity to be at the forefront of energy innovation, would you take it? I've been a union electrician for 10...
