Opinion

According to the Wall Street Journal, the fledgling online gambling industry is poised to explode in popularity.

While it still feels very much like summer, another school year is now underway with both uncertainty and opportunity. As San Marcos students enter their classrooms, we need to do everything reasonably possible to protect their health, while investing in their education and empowering them to grow as students and as individuals. My strongest commendation to the San Marcos CISD Board of Trustees for standing up for our students’ health through universal masking and rejecting Governor Abbott’s politically-motivated orders.

Editor,

According to CNN, pandemic fears and enhanced unemployment benefits have left the nation facing a serious shortage of qualified school bus drivers.

State government wouldn’t be working this way during a hurricane.

Editor,

The Tyree family recently took advantage of our state’s eagerly anticipated annual sales tax holiday on school supplies, clothing and electronics.

Public schools are opening this month in Texas, just as the delta variant of COVID-19 is spreading, rapidly filling emergency beds in hospitals around the state and putting emergency care back into the overcrowded and strained predicament it was in at the beginning of the year.

A 1986 Pantene commercial carried the tagline “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful.”

Maybe croquet could improve the ratings for the 2021 Summer Olympics?