COMMENTARY: Community education: Together we are stronger
BY ANA D. GONZALEZThe belief that we are stronger together has endured in the Rio Grande Valley for as long as I can remember....
COMMENTARY: Cruel experiments at A&M on ‘man’s best friend’
BY DR. EMILY TRUNNELLDeep inside the laboratories at Texas A&M University in College Station, golden retrievers and other dogs are suffering from a painful,...
COMMENTARY: Too many unnamed immigrant sources nowadays
BY DEBBIE NATHANI’m a journalist in the modern-day, the here and now, but lately it feels like I’m working in the 17th-Century. Specifically, in...
COMMENTARY: Billy Graham was the greatest evangelist
BY MICHAEL J. MCMANUSBilly Graham, who died last week at age 99, conducted his first city-wide crusade in 1947 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He...
COMMENTARY: Missing Mr. Rogers’ good old ways
BY ART MARKMANI grew up with the TV show “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.” I was 2-years-old when the show started airing on PBS in 1968,...
COMMENTARY: Fight ‘fake news’ by consuming fact-based information
On Tuesday, I will lead a presentation about the importance of newspapers in an era of “fake news” as part of the University of...
Sex education for those with intellectual disabilities
BY NICK WINGES-YANEZWhile sexual assault has been dominating news headlines recently, underlying the problem is a lack of sex education. Texas: We need to...
Raise smoking age to 21
BY CATHERINE CUBBIN and KENTYA FORDSSan Antonio recently took a major step to protect its residents’ health by passing a law that prevents merchants...
What is Texas’ AG afraid of? Young voters, that’s what.
BY KELSEY BARRONIf there were any lingering doubt that our state’s leaders are reluctant to let young Texans get anywhere near the voting booth,...
COMMENTARY: 2018 elections and private property rights
BY RICHARD THORPEHaving served as a cattle raisers officer for almost six years, I have had the privilege of meeting many of our state...