Opinion

Three years ago, Texas lawmakers were trying to honor a promise to cut property taxes and raise the state’s share of the cost of public education.

Editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent once penned a masterful sketch of a newspaperman — a skinny, bugeyed fellow in a baggy suit with a press card in the band of his porkpie hat.

Editor,

A nasty weather system swept across Texas this week, dropping tornadoes, hail, wind and rain in the central and southeast parts of the state before moving east to wreak more damage in Louisiana.

You remember how, after a nasty winter storm shut off the power in Texas and killed at least 246 people last year, the state’s top officials fired a bunch of regulators and others who oversee the electric grid in Texas?

To the Editor:

A tiny portion of my “day job” at a farmand-home cooperative involves writing radio commercials and onhold phone messages.

You call a popular, busy restaurant to make a reservation. They tell you they only take reservations from 5 to 6 p.m. You make a note to call back. When you do, the line is busy and you can’t get through.

Editor,

A handful of longtime readers may remember when I announced that “baby boy Tyree” was on his way.

Donald Trump could decide who gets the GOP nomination for attorney general of Texas and, in the process, could be a factor in runoffs farther down that party’s ballot in May.

I despise airing my dirty laundry in public, but I’ll make an exception for kvetching about my clean laundry.