Editorial: As US posture weakens, China's threat to Taiwan grows ominous
Editorial: Facebook won’t explain its widespread outage
Editorial: Just 51% of Kansans are vaccinated, but GOP COVID committee will focus on ‘freedom’
Analysis: A quick turn on property taxes with the long game in mind
Property taxes are higher in Texas than in all but a handful of other states. Voters know that, and when voters are interested, so are the people who depend on those voters for political …
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Analysis: Texas legislators set the table for the 2022 elections
In a year when the Texas Legislature just wouldn’t go home — a year marked by a 140-day regular …
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Commentary: Unemployment benefits weren't keeping workers home. The latest crummy jobs report proves it
The jobs report from the federal government covering September employment had some bad news and, so to …
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Analysis: An election slogan you won’t hear in Texas in 2022
Democrats won’t be rallying voters with claims they can flip control of the Texas Legislature in the …
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Commentary: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's order on vaccine mandates is beyond unhinged
Say what you wish about the COVID-19 vaccines — and their safety and efficacy against the disease …
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Analysis: Greg Abbott and the policy contradiction of an anti-mandate mandate
The governor of Texas is mandating against mandates — resuming the kinds of top-down restrictions …
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Analysis: Intentional loopholes in Texas abortion law draw a judge’s rebuke
The federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of the new abortion restrictions in Texas …
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Commentary: A ‘strike wave’ is coming to save America’s working class the old-fashioned way
Motorists zipping down State Road in Lancaster this week could be forgiven for thinking they’d passed through some kind of time warp back to …
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Commentary: It's time to close the religious vaccine objection loophole
There's something unquestionably alluring about claiming religious exemptions from government mandates and employer policies. For one thing, …
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Commentary: That Texas anti-abortion law is so much worse than you imagined. Here's how
As is widely known by now, the anti-abortion law that took effect in Texas last month set a new standard for malicious attacks on women's …
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Analysis: When Texas legislators admit they don’t know what they’re doing
State government in Texas is more of a slapdash operation than our high school civics teachers prepared us for. Some of the people working in …
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Are Democrats going to get their act together or what?
Back when my kids were little and I was always schlepping them hither and yon, they’d squabble in the back seat at ever-increasing decibels …
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Commentary: What it’s like operating a Texas abortion clinic under the state’s new ban
It’s been nearly a month since our country’s cruelest abortion ban went into effect. As of midnight Sept. 1, most Texans seeking abortion …
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Commentary: Fact check: Will Biden's spending bill hike taxes on those making less than $400,000?
President Joe Biden has repeatedly promised that his massive tax increases won’t hit people earning less than $400,000. Biden even put his …
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Analysis: Texas government won’t represent the state’s population unless its political maps do
In a state where more than 60% of the residents are people of color, the Texas Legislature is proposing maps where white people have voting …
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Commentary: In Annapolis, an accounting of what they lost on the day of the Capital shooting
One by one, in the most profoundly personal ways, they told us what the depraved violence of June 28, 2018 had cost them. One by one, relatives …
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Commentary: Surprise! Postal service is about to get slower — and more expensive
Is there a federal official more out of step with the purposes of his agency than Postmaster General Louis DeJoy? Sorry, that’s a rhetorical …
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Letters: "Too-quickly-sketchy 'vaccine'" is socialism
Way to use 9/11 to try to guilt people to get the too-quickly-sketchy 'vaccine', to 'protect' others..even though people with the vaccine are …
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Letter: The elephant in the room
Can we talk about the other elephant in the school board meeting of “that” Central Texas suburb in Austin? I am not talking about COVID, …
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LETTER: It’s time to abolish the filibuster
Every senator who protects the filibuster is guilty of protecting a Jim Crow relic that was used to block civil rights legislation for decades. …
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LETTERS: Sweetheart deal
Residents of Cedar Park will have an increase in their bills from PEC because CP has doubled the franchise fee from 2% to 4%. While causing …
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An open letter to Cedar Park voters
An Open Letter to Cedar Park Voters We have a city election on May 1. Early voting will begin April 19 and conclude on April 27.
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LETTER: Conservatives only?
I had not been to the YMCA in quite a while since COVID-19 started.Two weeks ago I thought I would try it again. I walked into the exercise …
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