Jack, as you pointed out yesterday, the DA's wife working for judicial candidates may meet the letter of the law, but it sure fails the smell test. Of course, it's even smellier that judicial candidates depend on political donations almost...
My colleague Lee Hancock wrote a heartbreaking story Sunday about the teacher stabbed to death last month at my old high school in Tyler and about the very disturbed student accused of the killing. Here's one more case where our...
I'm astounded by a claim appearing in recent advertising: WinStar World Casino is the fifth-largest casino in the world. Really? That little gambling operation up there just across the Oklahoma line? It has been a long time since I drove...
The state started shipping redesigned standard-issue license plates Monday, and sooner or later, everybody will have them. They're kinda purty, with a vast Texas sky arching over a distant mountain range above the legend "The Lone Star State." It'll replace...
I noticed a new billboard along I-30 in Far East Dallas. It simply says: "Where Dallas Gambles." And beneath that is the logo for the Horseshoe Casino in Shreveport. Alas, it looks like it will be a very long time...
I was pleased to read this morning that sobriety checkpoints may actually have a chance of approval in the Texas Legislature this session. That's something I have opined in favor of. Most states use 'em. Texas has among the most...
Texans, God love us all, remain sturdily (some might say mulishly) optimistic in the face of hard economic times. A statewide public opinion survey shows Texans may be feeling less downtrodden than the nation as a whole: More than half...
Reporter and Lone Star State newcomer Jessica Meyers got a quick education in gun control this week: I'm quickly learning that the topic of gun control rips open wounds in Texas like nothing else -- except maybe conversations about abortion...
Bear with me -- or is that bare? -- while I make one more observation about my trip to San Francisco. And, believe me, it's an observation I wish I hadn't made, but it led me to wonder: Are public-nekkedness...
With the effort under way in Texas right now to undermine the teaching of evolution in the schools, let me highlight two statements in today's newspaper from leading U.S. scientists. Regarding the "controversies" over evolution that critics want taught in...
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