This past November, I was honored to be sworn in as a Councilman in Lago Vista after a decade of serving as a staffer in the Texas Legislature. Perhaps few know how much legislative staffers get to …
Pharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma …
A little over a year ago, the College Board unveiled its long-awaited draft AP African American Studies …
This plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: …
Many Americans are still experiencing the sticker shock they first faced two years ago when …
The other day, I was walking through the bookstore and ended up in the sports section. Perusing the …
Around financial markets, the conventional wisdom is to “let the trend be your friend.” What …
Despite my best preventive measures, I have spent decades enduring the "stillgottas.” If you are unfamiliar with the medical terminology, …
An old legal adage states: “Men are presumed to intend the natural consequences of their acts.” The natural, indeed inescapable, consequence …
I forgot what it was like to experience a good old common cold. Prior to covid, you see, the cold-getting experience went like this: I’d wake …
This January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. Nearly a century after the late civil rights leader’s …
Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That's how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like …
Okay, maybe I’m approaching this from a position of privilege. One of my earliest memories is of tagging along to my mother’s former …
Dear Williamson County Commissioners, We are residents of Williamson County. Some of you say racism doesn’t exist and the confederate monument …
It’s high giving season in America. From Angel Trees and red buckets to year-end appeals, nonprofits and charities receive more donations …
The best Christmas gift I ever gave anyone was the one I gave my father about 20 years ago: a Lionel train set. Every year, we got him the same …
Too many of us have to depend on sheer good luck to make it — especially when it comes to putting a roof over our heads. We grow up hearing …
Dear Editor: The Supreme Court has a serious ethics problem, and the latest revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas should be alarming to …
Dear Editor: While public education needs more funding Greg Abbott is trying to take away from it by forcing school vouchers. His attempt to …