THE GROCERY STORE
It was obvious President Biden's policy changes would attract a flood of new illegal immigrants.
Mary Newport has been quite the world traveler both during her initial stint with as features writer The Facts and after.
New York Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, said this on the House floor during debate over the euphemistically named Equality Act: “What any religious tradition ascribes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress.”
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, but his populist ideas may continue to animate the Republican Party.
THE LAUNDRY ROOM
It's one of the most basic questions of the U.S. Capitol riot investigation: What was the rioters' plan?
The competition for slots will only worsen when the COVID-19 vaccination priority list opens to the broader public.
ERCOT, the state-controlled electric grid operator taking most of the initial blame for widespread blackouts and for all of the attendant misery over the last week, answers to the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Texas got close to the brink this week, as bad weather, inadequate preparation and weak leadership left millions without electricity and water, endangered in a prosperous state that ought to know better.
‘The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he or she says ‘Amen’ and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas,” said the Rev. Frank Laubach, a protestant American missionary featured on a U.S. postage stamp. He con…
Those who have worked to get lights and heat and water running this week, as well as those who kept store shelves stoked, have earned our praise and respect this week.
THE LINE
Between winter electricity blackouts, a haphazard rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and the Texas government’s overall response to the pandemic over the last year, the theme of the current legislative session and the next election cycle ought to be easy.
Even as Pelosi calls for an investigation, a number of government agencies are stonewalling the public on some of the most basic information about the events of Jan. 6.
This is hard. In a world of challenges, this latest punch in the form of sub-freezing temperatures and widespread power and water outages is just plain cruel.
I spent four hours volunteering alongside some of the kindest people you will ever meet — UTMB nurses, administrators and employees who worked nonstop for right hours as COVID vaccines were dispensed.
Some recipes and tips for using a slow cooker to its full advantage
Children have to fear being cooked and eaten. Cannibals are on the prowl.
Did you vote in the 2020 elections? Good, because a lot of Texans couldn’t. We have all sorts of barriers to keep certain people from voting — laws, land mines, barbed wire and snide comments from voting precinct workers.
Voting in Texas isn't easy, and it's not expected to get easier any time soon.
The 2012 party primary elections in Texas were held May 29 instead of March 6 that year — the result of litigation over new political maps drawn to fit the 2010 census.
On Jan. 21, President Joe Biden’s first full day in office, White House press secretary Jen Psaki began her briefing with this: “When the president asked me to serve in this role, we talked about the importance of bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room.” Now, the administr…
Like most areas of major cities that formed in the 1800s, immigrants made up the early population of what became known as the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
Of all the things on Gov. Greg Abbott’s list of priorities, the call for broadband internet might be the most popular in the state Legislature. But fixing the problems of accessibility and affordability will be expensive and time-consuming.
Folks who regularly lump alcoholic beverages into the cauldron labeled “witches’ brew” may still be shaking their heads, wondering why Anheuser-Busch didn’t get their famous Clydesdales in harness for Super Bowl LV.
Visiting with my Aunt Polly Sims in Palm Springs after my mother’s passing, I said, “I’ll add a dryer sheet to the clothes in the dryer.”
You w ouldn’t want to say this Texas Legislature doesn’t have an agenda. Maybe it’s a secret, or — more likely — it’s just that the list is too obvious to require a proclamation: write a state budget, draw new political maps, revise election and voting laws, address the problems of racial ju…
Bold steps nearly 50 years ago created a landmark protection for the people’s right to know in Texas.
Question: If you start to build a dam and only get halfway through, how much water will it stop?
There were roughly 25,000 National Guard members in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President Joe Biden. It has been normal practice to have some National Guard in town for inaugurations, but 25,000 was far more than any number from the past. Of course, nerves were raw after the Ja…
It’s always easiest to lead the Texas Legislature by going where lawmakers already wanted to go, and there’s a fresh example in the “emergency” list for legislators laid out Monday in Gov. Greg Abbott’s State of the State address.
Famed orator and lawmaker Daniel Webster put Union above unity in his political battles.
Norman V. Horner is a retired educator who doesn’t really care whether folks call him “Dr.” or not. His distinguished career — plus his 40 articles in professional journals and his leadership in scholarly organizations — suggest he’s been worthy of his degree for a long time.
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