TEXAS VIEW: Texas kicks kids off Medicaid for paperwork problems

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Since April, states across the country have been kicking people off Medicaid, and no state has kicked off more people than Texas. We’re at...

TEXAS VIEW: Who was the most embarrassing Texan this year? See if you can...

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Texans are larger than life, and unfortunately, that includes when they screw up, too. 2023 was a banner year for missteps and overkill. This...

TEXAS VIEW: Rising insurance costs in Texas are the latest threat to housing affordability

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There’s no secret that Texas has a housing affordability crisis. Too few houses built after the pandemic, high land costs and mortgage rates and...

TEXAS VIEW: How a team of scientists helped fill a gap in Texas’ natural...

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It’s amazing how finding just a few fossilized bone fragments can add to our understanding of Texas’ natural history, and the scientists who work...

TEXAS VIEW: Is the Texas power grid at risk of winter blackouts?

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In the two years since Winter Storm Uri plunged millions of Texas homes into darkness, Gov. Greg Abbott has leaned on a familiar refrain:...

TEXAS VIEW: Challenge to state migrant arrest law should be expedited

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Human rights activists were ready to challenge Texas’ latest state immigration law. The day after Gov. Greg Abbott came to the Rio Grande Valley...

TEXAS VIEW: Mexican cartels provide the drugs, we provide the weapons

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Scanning the headline from our sister newspaper, we were tempted to ask, “What’s the problem?” After all, the alleged gun-smuggling miscreants reside in a...

TEXAS VIEW: Texas has a chance to be a climate leader in carbon capture...

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For years, some environmentalists trumpeted the benefits of carbon capture and storage to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change. The irony though...

TEXAS VIEW: Kate Cox’s complicated pregnancy shows why Texas needs to change abortion law

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The complications that Texas’ abortion law created for a pregnant mother in Dallas have put the state in a national spotlight — and not...

TEXAS VIEW: Abbott’s buoys in Rio Grande a gross display of overreach

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Gov. Greg Abbott’s orange buoys might float his political aspirations, but they have no place in the Rio Grande. They are a grotesque display of...