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
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:
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.
If one needs evidence of how upside-down our times are, consider the spectacle Americans witness daily where elected officials seeking to score political points work not toward the “general welfare” cited in the U.S. Constitution, not toward the sanctity of life pressed by the Bible, but tow…
One central tenet of any representative democracy involves holding elected officials accountable — and not just through elections every so many years but through the rule of law that ensures no public official is above laws others must obey. Yet more and more we see elected officials claimin…
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on U.S. centers of commerce and military might that left nearly 3,000 dead means reevaluating many goals, many missions. Among them: our declared war on terrorism, a commitment President George W. Bush correctly warned would be long in t…
It’s up to every fan to do his or her own calculation of risk vs. reward in attending a Bills game. It could have been different.
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A reassuringly cool breeze ushered in Labor Day weekend across Central Texas, even as our collective societal temperature has skyrocketed. State politicians including those representing Central Texas have decided the best way to fight abortion is to step back from the fracas themselves and u…
One marvels at the struggle between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who prides himself as a no-holds-barred champion of innocent life in raging abortion battles, and big-city schools across Texas that, in defying his executive order banning mask mandates in public schools, strive to protect not only…
Americans are coming to grips with sobering public health realities: The mutation and spread of SARS-CoV-2 again imperils the way we live. Many justifiably blame this latest surge on those who neglected or refused to get COVID-19 vaccinations, allowing variants to fester and emerge reborn in…
For those who have reveled in college football for generations, hard truths must now be acknowledged about the passion and the glory, including the fact college sports is dominated by money and prestige as much as collegial competition and athletic prowess. This surely characterizes the lega…
Even before Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier engineered a manned hot-air balloon liftoff from Paris for a 20-minute flight in 1783, earthlings have found inspiration in any and all efforts to reach for the stars. Some of us are old enough to recall the excitement of Alan Shepard’s 1961 flight …
"Canada’s abundance-of-caution approach needs to be modified to recognize the abundance of vaccines. It’s your move, Mr. Trudeau," writes The News' Editorial Board.
Texas House Democrats’ decision to again break quorum and shut down another legislative session and, along with it, an admittedly odious election reform bill do-over reminds us of Yogi Berra’s witticism: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Yet for those who view politics through objective le…
Republicans have gotten plenty of political traction accusing others of “cancel culture.” They’ve leveled the charge at academia for not scheduling conservative speakers to the degree they do others. They attack demonstrators who demand removal of statues of Americans who don’t pass muster i…