On Dec. 17, about 80 health care workers at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco became the first in McLennan County to receive Pfizer’s new …
Ascension Providence and Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest hospitals are preparing for a large-scale vaccination effort that would effectivel…
A friend of ours who voted for President Trump on Tuesday casually acknowledged Thursday that his man had almost certainly lost the presidenti…
The president’s Wednesday morning tirade that Democrats are trying to steal the presidential election from him through their insistence that a…
However else history may one day view the Trump administration after four years of shaking up government, busting political norms and thrillin…
Last Sunday Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell got up before an audience at a local church and suggested political forces allied against Pre…
Given remarks by President Trump and allies, the newest justice on the Supreme Court is expected to actively and judicially do what Congress r…
If even possible, let's briefly put aside partisan fervor a moment and consider the presidential race solely from the perspective of the two p…
Given the challenges imperiling or closing down some of our cherished small businesses in Waco in pandemic times, local leaders’ excitement ov…
Last week the Trib published an abridged version of Republican Sen. Ben Sasse’s seemingly benign lecture about civics versus politics, deliver…
We’ll resist the temptation to credit Providence with the latest allegation of corruption leveled at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by vete…
If Democrats questioning Amy Coney Barrett’s qualifications to be the next Supreme Court justice this week are shrewd this time around, they’l…
Maybe it’s our imagination, but Dr. Jackson Griggs acted as if he were talking about pumpkin festival frolic in getting tested for COVID-19 as…
Any contention that President Trump at last “gets it” and now understands COVID-19 better than his presidential opponent is true only in the s…
Last week, amidst the interruptions, insults and lies spewed by his Republican opponent in the presidential debate, former vice president Joe …
Veteran CNN political analyst Dana Bash, briefly embracing the vulgarities that have come to characterize political leadership in the Age of T…
Republicans’ stunning 2020 reversal of their very own 2016 principle that no Supreme Court justice should ever be confirmed during a president…
During last week’s joint congressional committee hearing on COVID-19’s impact on the U.S. economy, Republican Congressman David Schweikert ask…
This editorial started out to bestow praise on local Republicans, Democrats and other community groups for helping register voters in McLennan…
Putting aside questions of hypocrisy, fair play and unbridled aggravation of political and societal polarization that threatens the very insti…
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Anyone who has followed American conservatism the past four decades knows the love-hate relationship conservatives have with Social Security a…
We’re confident most local Trump supporters won’t take the bait, run out this fall and vote for Trump once by mail, then again in person, notw…
Tradition dictates the weary newspaper editorialist offer some insight or wisdom about labor, commerce and the American way come Labor Day wee…
This time of year generally finds our shared attention falling on football and, at least during even-numbered years, politics. Given it’s 2020…
Two weeks of national political conventions punctuating a long, hot summer of protest-fueled unrest, plague and legislative gridlock offered m…
Perhaps it's appropriate that continued uproar over the U.S. Postal Service fell between the end of last week's Democratic National Convention…
Let us state straight up and without nuance: This newspaper opposes the push by at least some on the political left this summer to simply “def…