For the better part of a decade, the majority of Texas voters have chosen to elect and reelect a morally and ethically bankrupt politician as our state’s top law enforcement officer because he files lawsuits against the federal government and, despite our supposed belief in states’ rights, h…
🎧 The hosts discuss the importance of good sportsmanship and why, unlike in politics, sports almost always rewards the people with the most skill.
Several critical themes surfaced when members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee set up in Waco last week for a “listening session” ahead of cobbling together a massive farm bill, but collectively they made a point that should be raised more often: Food security in America equates to na…
“America’s dirty little secret is that thousands of people go to jail without ever talking to a lawyer.”
The Waco Tribune-Herald editorial board joins local news media colleagues and free speech advocates everywhere in welcoming Judge David Hodges’ rethinking and amendment of his Jan. 9 order forbidding news media from “reporting or disclosing” to the public information in the Marian Fraser mur…
One must marvel at last week’s circus maximus in the U.S. House of Representatives, given that some of us are directly responsible: After narrowly returning to power a party that enabled and excused the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, voters watched as Republican House members …
In a season marking long-ago signs and interpretations of joy, wonder and foreboding as chronicled in the Gospel of Matthew, one is challenged to ponder not only Thursday’s release of former Baylor University basketball standout Brittney Griner from Russian captivity — and just two weeks bef…
The Waco Tribune-Herald will cease publishing a COVID-19 tracker box on the front page after Saturday’s edition. With the exception of six days in 2020, it has been a fixture on our front page since the very early days of the coronavirus pandemic. State health officials are doing away with r…
OUR VIEW: A clean break is needed, not timid hedging that hopes he’ll go away on his own
OUR VIEW: Democracy shines while Trump and transparency tumble
When it comes to holding the line on property taxes, only six taxing entities in McLennan County delivered in 2022.
One can understand the tension Waco Independent School District officials displayed Thursday: During a debate over architectural designs already approved for rebuilding Waco High School, G.W. Carver Middle School and Tennyson Middle School, each trustee had to wonder if he or she might one d…
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
Public ignorance and blind party loyalty are a candidate's best friend.
When conservatives talk about so-called “entitlements,” they act as if it’s charity.
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Chronic distraction to learning needs restriction so teachers can teach
As veterans dutifully remind us, Memorial Day is set aside to recognize our war dead, those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, often on faraway battlefields, so the rest of America — our homes, our livelihoods, our children, our captains of industry and those freedoms inherent i…
Road construction is everywhere in Waco, it seems. Waco Drive, Washington Avenue, Fifth Street, Elm Avenue and Highway 6 are awash in the familiar tint of orange construction cones. One might say the construction cone is Waco’s new mascot.
It’s going to be difficult to justify anything other than the no-new-revenue rate when local entities set their 2022 tax rates. Valuations for existing residential property rose 30% year over year, and the McLennan County Appraisal District expects more than 18,000 property owners to protest…
Hobbled by an unwillingness to admonish and discipline a vocal pro-Putin wing of their own party, House Republican leadership last week took another hit: Sixty-three Republican lawmakers in the lower chamber including Waco-based Congressman Pete Sessions voted against a House resolution supp…
The world oil market has endured some remarkable events over the past 24 months:
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Early voting begins Monday for the 2022 primary election in Texas. The headliner locally is the district attorney’s race on the Republican ticket between incumbent Barry Johnson and challenger Josh Tetens. McLennan County voters have primary choices on both the Republican and Democratic tick…
Nobody has more riding on a continued mild winter than Gov. Greg Abbott. Locked in a heated primary battle for reelection, the governor has staked a prospective third term on the state’s electrical grid avoiding a repeat of last February’s blackouts amid mismanagement by the appointed Electr…
The Associated Press recently told its editors and reporters to stop writing stories about the coronavirus pandemic based solely on case counts and hospitalizations within a certain area. Those two oft-cited metrics have been the barometer by which the pandemic has been measured since it sta…
In recent months and weeks, some of our friends and neighbors have proposed we “get past” the outrage over January 6, 2021, when fellow Americans stormed the U.S. Capitol. In an interview with Trib staffer Tommy Witherspoon last month, Congressman Pete Sessions, a champion of former Presiden…
Omicron is here, and spreading quickly.
The one heart-stopping moment of Republican Congressman Pete Sessions’ rambunctious town hall meeting last week came when Dr. James Ferguson, a local pediatrician introduced by Sessions, told a crowd openly hostile to mandatory vaccinations that the deadly, highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus…
Republican state Rep. Matt Krause’s formal Oct. 25 letter initiating a statewide inquiry into what books regarding race or sexuality sit on school library shelves and whether they “make students feel discomfort” has prompted some Texans to panic over whether this action paves the way for goo…
While local governments make plans to spend allocations from the massive COVID-19 federal relief program known as the American Rescue Plan, the Waco-McLennan County Public Health District quietly ended community testing clinics on Friday, citing a lack of demand as cases decline in our community.
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