National media outlets leaning in both directions had a conniption when the Small Business Administration refused to announce which businesses had applied for and received money through the Payroll Protection Program. People should know exactly where their tax dollars are going, they rightfu…
Texas Republicans should call off their in-person convention in the name of public health, especially the health of its own members.
It was a one-two punch to Brazoria County, but who could be angry?
Jaws would have hit the floor around Texas on Thursday afternoon were masks not holding them in place.
Just a s with other activities required to conduct somewhat normal lives these days, people should not be deterred from exercising their right to vote in the runoff elections because of the possibly contracting the novel coronavirus. They just should take the basic precautions encouraged or …
Government shouldn't have to tell us to protect others from spreading COVID-19.
Local school officials can be forgiven if they are skeptical about the Texas Education Agency promising to make good on covering the unexpected expenses created by the coronavirus pandemic. State officials don’t have a great track record of keeping their word.
Juneteenth, as it is affectionately called, is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of ending slavery in the United States. June 19 should come around each year with federal recognition.
Most Americans outside Texas likely knew little of Juneteenth until recent years, even though it was a significant event in both African American and the nation’s history.
In the case of Wednesday's editorial, we could have made our points better about the need for public engagement with elected officials better than we did.
It should take more than giving a public health official your word to be considered recovered from the novel coronavirus.
Acclaims and a shame is a weekly collection of quick hits of opinions from members of The Facts editorial board. This weeks topics include the code crackdown in West Columbia and a show of unity in local communities.
The most important thing Bre’Jon Lundy did in organizing a peaceful march in Angleton against racial injustice was to get out from behind a screen.
A few years back when Sears announced it would be closing its doors at Brazos Mall, many residents lamented its departure as a lost piece of the community’s retail history. It had been one of the mall’s original tenants, but its failure to keep up with the hanging tastes and shopping habits …
Acclaims and a shame is a weekly collection of quick hits written by members of The Facts Editorial Board on topics of local, state and national interest. Today's topics include people trashing the beach, Angleton giving property owners a break and a student victimized by the state's high-stakes testing system.
One of the reasons there appears to be such a divide over whether Texans should be allowed to vote by mail in either the July primary runoffs or November general elections is that there really are two separate arguments being made.
While news outlets around the country posted stories with headlines announcing the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis had been determined to be a homicide at the hands of police officers, Glenn Beck’s alternative service, The Blaze, took a different tack.
When Los Angeles police officers beat Rodney King senseless more than a quarter-century ago, a bystander’s video refuting defenders’ claims the officers were dealing with a combative dangerous man, the nation promised change.
Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories—recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz’s father and the JFK assassination—but his latest accusation against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is ugly even for him. Mr. Trump has been tweeting the suggestion that Mr. Scarborough might have h…
Acclaims and a shame is a weekly collection of quick hits written by members of The Facts Editorial Board on topics of local, state and national interest. Today's topics include applause for teachers and Memorial Day programs, and a shame for death threats over a woman's abominable behavior.
Regardless how it’s packaged, Lake Jackson’s “no-camping” ordinance has the whiff of criminalizing people for being homeless.
The Wall Street Journal on former President Barack Obama's administration “unmasking” former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
With the mantra repeated by all local athletics directors and coaches, the health and safety of students and coaches clearly sat at the top of the list of objectives when the UIL drew up its guidelines for resuming activities.
The debate over the state’s authority to institute emergency orders shows how two people can read the same line of text and draw different conclusions. With so many regulations and the convoluted language that often frame them, it’s no wonder rules get misinterpreted and overlooked.
Most parents wouldn’t think of taking their child for a car ride without ensuring they are locked safely in a protective seat. If they didn’t and they were in a collision, the injuries — or worse — inflicted on their child would haunt them daily.
Acclaim and a shame is a collection of quick hits of praise and commentary on local, state and national issues written by members of The Facts Editorial Board.
Adequately preventing the virus from being passed via traffic into and out of polling places and on touch-screen voting machines remains an unresolved problem for the primary runoffs.
When Gulf Coast property owners were left to pay their full tax bills on homes that didn’t exist anymore in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and its subsequent flooding, Texas leaders expressed sympathy. They also offered a carrot — don’t worry, we can’t do anything right now, but we will t…
Even those who dismiss the risks posed by the novel coronavirus would have a hard time minimizing the fear of workers in meatpacking plants.
Federal leaders recently announced they would provide states enough tests, swabs and related materials to screen at least 2.6 percent of their populations for COVID-19 in May and June. States hit harder by the outbreak would be eligible for additional assistance.
With the easing of restrictions Friday by Gov. Greg Abbott, people who complained about them should be satisfied that how they deal with the virus is more in their hands.
More than a fifth of the 55,000 known covid-19 deaths in the United States have occurred at nursing homes and other elder-care facilities. Federal and state governments have largely turned a blind eye, often making no effort to test residents or staffs and leaving relatives, surrounding comm…
The Affordable Care Act has cost taxpayers a bundle, and now the Supreme Court says they are on the hook for billions of dollars in additional payments to insurers even though Congress never appropriated the money. The ruling will be even more expensive if it encourages more lawsuit demands for unappropriated funds from other statutes.
Residents in the Rosharon area had limited shopping options before the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Brazoria County.
Just five days ago, we lauded the incremental, cautious approach of Gov. Greg Abbott's first measure to begin easing restrictions in place since the scope of the novel coronavirus became more clear to leaders. He seems to have dropped that preferred course as he considered his next step.
As we’ve seen during other disasters that shut down schools, including Hurricane Harvey in 2017, kids have an astounding ability to adapt to the current and bounce back in the future.
W hen we thought of small businesses that could be helped by the COVID relief measure approved by Congress, we thought of people like Drew Ryder, Tammie McQueen and Mikey Svoboda, among dozens of others who have earned support of Brazoria County residents for years.
State prison officials' dismissal of not informing local government leaders that 128 novel coronavirus-infected were being sent into Brazoria County because it is not something done routinely should offend every resident of our county.
The experiences lost in recent weeks for school seniors, athletes and other students cannot be made up, and Gov. Greg Abbott is wise to understand trying to give them one last hurrah to this academic year is short-sighted and potentially more dangerous than missing memories.
If there is a silver lining to the ugly #MeToo accusation against Joe Biden, it is the reluctance of the left and the media to pursue it as vigorously as charges against other men suggests they may have discovered that principles such as due process and the presumption of innocence still mat…
So much for triangulating. After Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential run last week, Joe Biden waited barely 24 hours before racing to bolster his progressive bona fides. Mr. Biden said Thursday he plans to make 60-year-olds eligible for Medicare, while erasing undergraduate student deb…
One of the more difficult and vexing questions in the coronavirus pandemic is “when?”
Much has been made of the disparate economic hardship created by the coronavirus lockdown. A viral screenshot captured during Jim Cramer’s program last week on CNBC showed just how there really are two economic spheres in America.
The Facts’ prize patrol is going to save some money from its balloon budget this year, but we won’t be cutting back on the excitement.
Pastor Brenda George of New Life Church in Freeport offered a unique perspective on how people will celebrate Easter today, free of egg hunts, a giant ham and other traditions.
Just as a swath of manufacturers are switching their production lines to ventilator and mask production for the greater good, corporations that normally view every new registered user as a data point to exploit need to take a pause on profiting from online data harvesting.
Even in a pandemic, steps as grave as rewriting voting rules should be up to elected representatives and not freelanced by judges.
Ev en during the best times, people who suffer from depression, anxiety and other mental health problems struggle to get out of bed, interact with others and live life as many consider normal.
‘What do you have to lose?”
From t he start of the Great Recession in December 2007 until early 2010, to the country’s economic rebound began in earnest, the U.S. economy lost roughly 8.8 million jobs.
Scammers ar e working overtime, and COVID-19 isn’t the only virus to worry about. Crooks are working by telephone, computer, text messaging, social media — every way imaginable — to leverage coronavirus fears and separate people from their money. And, worse, they’re getting better at it.
People of faith being encouraged to put their own lives at risk to participate in prayerful gatherings, such as that earlier this week in an Alvin parking lot, is dangerous to the community.
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