TEXAS VIEW: Texas still needs a statewide auto safety inspection program

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Conservatives often rail against certain requirements as excessive government overreach, especially if it involves a mandatory fee or tax. Often, this editorial board would...

TEXAS VIEW: Transgender health care ban is latest cruelty

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That the Texas Legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 14 Wednesday, May 17, was a foregone conclusion only amplifies its cruelty. In recent years, arguably...

TEXAS VIEW: Barbs and barbed wire won’t solve issues at the border

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The federal government spends $25 billion each year to police the border with Mexico. Yet, Gov. Greg Abbott thinks Texas taxpayers should spend upwards...

TEXAS VIEW: If lawmakers offer school choice pilot program, here’s why Gov. Abbott should...

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Texas lawmakers have been debating the merits of school choice, or education savings programs, for weeks. A sweeping plan passed in the Senate but...

TEXAS VIEW: Texas daycare centers and parents need help

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If a budget is a ranking of state spending priorities, then assuring quality daycare for Texas children and relief for their cash-strapped working parents...

TEXAS VIEW: Texas can do much more to fight hate, racist terror

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The massacre at an Allen outlet mall presents many challenges, and one of the most difficult will be confronting the extremism that appeared to...

TEXAS VIEW: If kids are getting high from gas-station gummies, Texas needs to act

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We’ve seen it with fentanyl, brightly colored pills that can be deadly to an unsuspecting user. When the drug is cannabis, that’s not nearly...

TEXAS VIEW: Texas foster care needs money to keep kids safe

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Why? That’s the question that advocates for Texas children who are neglected, abandoned, abused and in need of a safe place to live ask almost...

TEXAS VIEW: Gov. Abbott, you must act on gun violence

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Gov. Abbott, Eight more innocent people were killed in Texas Saturday. This time it was a shopping mall. They were simply going about their day,...

TEXAS VIEW: Politics putting Texas mothers’ lives at risk

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The lives of low-income Texas mothers are at greater risk because the Texas Senate, led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, has slowed down consideration...