Opinion

I am very grateful for the detailed story in the Daily Record on 6-2123 by Shannon West on the new Comp Plan under review by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

“Because I could not stop for cataracts, they kindly stopped for me.”

Maybe it’s a good thing that my teenage dream of becoming a TV programmer never materialized.

The national debt broke the $32 trillion barrier this week. It’s a number so huge it’s incomprehensible to the average citizen.

Lawmakers picked a fight with renewables but didn’t wreck the Texas industry.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claimed last week that Gov. Greg Abbott is sabotaging the Senate’s work because of their ongoing feud over which approach to property tax reform is best, The Dallas Morning News reported. Abbott vetoed three bills by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, who has been Patrick’s point senator on increasing homestead exemptions in order to provide tax cuts. As of Friday afternoon, he had vetoed 31 bills.

Dear Editor: The Texas Tribune published an article today, June 2, 2023, called, 'Climate proposals withered at the Texas Capitol this year.' This article summarizes the various ways pro-environmental policies failed to pass at the Texas legislature in the last few months. One section that struck a poignant chord with me was the 'Extreme Heat Ignored.'

An invocation controversy arose in San Marcos on May 16 when a Satanist leader gave the invocation at a meeting of the City Council.

Modern dads are portrayed as fools in television sitcoms and commercials.

So far, the pending impeachment trial of Ken Paxton is looking like something between a playground spat and the setup to a barroom brawl. The attorney general’s trial in the Senate is a time when it’s critical to show that order, decorum and justice prevail.

Four years ago on a cold winter night, Teresa Todd was driving on a highway in West Texas when she saw three young migrants from Central America limping along the side of the road. Concerned that one of them, a woman named Esmeralda, looked severely dehydrated and exhausted, Todd pulled over and invited the three of them into her car to stay warm.

On a clear day, the view from the top-floor terrace of the Kennedy Center is one of the best in the nation’s capital.