Opinion: Gov. Abbott Continues His Unconstitutional Control Over Independent State Officers. Does Anyone Care?
In June of 2016, the Texas Tribune reported that there were 336 state officers who were serving in their offices and exercising their statutory...
Opinion: Young Republicans Support Reforming Marijuana Penalties in Texas
Over 60,000 arrests are made each year for marijuana possession in Texas, accounting for 4.5 to 6 percent of total arrests statewide. Republicans of...
As To Governor Abbott’s Powers, He Has Defiantly Ignored The Law And The Court...
Did we not all learn in our Texas Government Class that the Legislature writes and adopts the words of a statute, the Governor has...
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...
Waiting…
At the present time, we are stuck in the purgatory of politics. Half of media are criticizing Biden, while the other half praises him....
Will Texas Public Education Survive Greg Abbott?
Texas has a prolonged history with alternatives to public education. In the past, the push toward vouchers was because of racial segregation, but this...
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...
Opinion: Feds and Texas in Medicaid Game of Chicken
In what is an escalating game of chicken, the federal government has decided to end Texas’ 1115 Waiver in the Medicaid program.
When the Affordable...
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...
The Secret Lives of Railroads
“The great truth of America,” John Oliver once said, is that “if you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.”
Hello, Railroad...
