TEXAS VIEW: Countdown continues to transformative vet school debutTHE POINT: The school will bring...
In two weeks, the calendar will finally turn to 2021, which will initiate the last phase of the countdown to the start of classes...
SULLUM: Trump’s election conspiracy theory requires followers to join him in an alternate universe
No matter how many times Bullwinkle J. Moose fails to pull a rabbit out of his hat, he remains optimistic. "This time for sure!"...
TEXAS VIEW: Hairstylists get more training than Texas cops?THE POINT: That’s unacceptable.
People who call the police for help in a life and death situation have every right to expect the responding officer to be at...
CHAREN: Our merciless culture
When did we become so merciless? I'm not talking about the 18-year-old kid, featured in a New York Times article, who elected to torpedo...
TEXAS VIEW: Evictions fuel raging flames of COVID-19THE POINT: Nearly two weeks before Christmas,...
As COVID-19 became the dominant presence in American life in 2020, most of us resigned ourselves to a year absent of familiar trappings, hoping...
ESTRICH: The new leader of the criminals’ lobby
Having been run out of San Francisco, as liberal a place as you will find in America, George Gascon relocated to Los Angeles. Having...
TEXAS VIEW: Chuck Yeager proved he had the ‘right stuff’THE POINT: Amid the pandemic...
It’s been just more than a month since the voting public made its voice heard and thoroughly rejected an ambitious proposition that would have...
OUR VIEW: Juneteenth in Odessas is a big deal
It has been 21 years since the Black Cultural Council of Odessa started organizing a local event to coincide with Juneteenth, which commemorates June...
OUR VIEW: City pound needs you and so do unwanted pets
In 2017 about 4,000 animals were euthanized. Most were deemed too vicious or ill to put up for adoption and some who were gravely...
OUR VIEW: OPD’s PAL Camp is best Interaction
It’s great news that the Odessa Police Department’s Police Athletic League (PAL) camp is in such high demand that they had to add an...