TEXAS VIEW: Texas DPS needs to rein in high-speed chases through border towns
An alarming increase in the number of deadly high-speed chases by Texas law enforcement since the beginning of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star...
TEXAS VIEW: Abbott, let the Lege go home! Special sessions on vouchers are un-Texan
GO HOME!
That would be the advice, we’re guessing, that the ghosts of Texas lawmakers past would impart to their present-day counterparts. Sequestered for a...
TEXAS VIEW: High-speed rail: Should Dallas to Fort Worth be Texas’ first route?
As congestion and accidents plague our roadways, innovative transportation solutions are key to sustaining our region’s rapid growth. Though it seems utopian in Texas,...
TEXAS VIEW: Fracking earthquakes are a devil’s bargain Texas doesn’t need
As if our state didn’t already have enough disasters — floods, fires, tornadoes, explosions — we’ve added a new kind to the list. At...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas’ border security bill doubles down on costly failure
Show-me-your-papers legislation is back in style for Republican lawmakers. But it’s 2023, not 2010. And this time it is Texas at the forefront of...
TEXAS VIEW: Texas A&M’s obscene $78 million coach buyout is sports obsession run amok
Even in Texas, there must be a limit to how much we’ll invest in sports. Surely one of our flagship universities paying someone nearly...
TEXAS VIEW: Established science, not ideology, belongs in Texas classrooms
The State Board of Education recently debated how Texas students will learn about hot-button issues including climate change and evolution. Predictably, the review devolved...
TEXAS VIEW: Shaky Texas grid can’t handle anymore energy-guzzling crypto miners
While Texans this year sweated out the hottest August ever recorded and paid budget-crushing electricity bills to cool their homes, at least one Bitcoin...
TEXAS VIEW: UTSA’s fostering education success program is a state model
More than 80% of 17- and 18-year-olds in foster care say they want to attend college, but only 20% enroll and only a fraction...
TEXAS VIEW: Will Texas build the workforce it needs?
Building Texas’ workforce of the future isn’t as simple as hanging out a “we’re hiring” shingle. And that’s why we’re hopeful that the state’s...