Opinion

Allowing children to help out in the classroom supports their learning and development, according to the findings of a new study coauthored by Texas State University researcher Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, Ph.D.

As we start 2024, Central Texas is seeing lots of growth and there is a strong need for Workforce, as a member of the Board of Directors for Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area (WSRCA), I want to share with you a few insights on what WSRCA can do to support your business.

No news was good news when it came to the arctic blast that brought freezing temperatures to Texas this week.

DEAR ABBY: I grew up with very strict parents. They used money to control me, even after I graduated from college and grad school. I’m happy to report that I recently landed my dream job. I have achieved financial freedom and, at last, I’m independent.

Atticus Finch, the relentlessly principled defense attorney and father in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has just wrapped up his closing statement when his family’s cook and housekeeper interrupts the court, to pass him a note. For a moment, Finch loses his composure. It turns out his children haven’t been seen at home for hours and, to his chagrin, he realizes they’ve been sitting in the balcony watching proceedings of the trial.

The city of Toronto is in the news for outlawing sled and toboggan riding on 45 of its hillsides.

The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report late last week on the May 4, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, the Austin American- Statesman reported.

“The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”

Despite my best preventive measures, I have spent decades enduring the “stillgottas.”

Excessive alcohol use is commonplace during the holiday season, and it is the reason why so many people choose to give themselves an alcohol-free break. Dry January is popular, but you can start this exercise anytime.

DEAR ABBY: Somehow I became the go-to person for everyone in my family – siblings as well as parents. I have the means, and for decades, I have been happy to help. I recently lost a brother, and I assumed the people I’ve been there for would be there to support ME.

The escalating battle over who should pay the price for the federal government’s failures to enforce the southern border has ensnared an unlikely target — Texas bus companies.