TEXAS VIEW: Texas kicks kids off Medicaid for paperwork problems
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...
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
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...
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?
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
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
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...
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
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
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...