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    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…

      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…

      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…

      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…

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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…

      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…

      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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