COMMENTARY: Senate healthcare plan would leave many without coverage
BY ALLAN HUGH COLE JR.Sixteen words from my doctor changed my life: “What worries me is that I think you are in the early...
COMMENTARY: ‘Cadillac tax’ on insurance plans will hurt working-class Texans
BY DR. DEANE WALDMANRemember when President Barack Obama said that passage of the Affordable Care Act would save middle class families $2,500 a year...
COMMENTARY: Equal housing conditions for all in the RGV
BY JOSUÉ RAMIREZHidalgo County residents have made many strides in demanding advances in important public services such as lighting and adequate drainage. Over the...
COMMENTARY: Analyzing price gouging after recent hurricanes
BY DANIEL FRIDMANIn addition to wind, rain and destruction, hurricane season also brings a practice that is almost universally repudiated: Price gouging. Price gouging...
COMMENTARY: Let’s have a Constitution Day grounded in solid US laws
BY MARK MILLERIt’s not every year that Broadway’s Best Musical Tony Award goes to a show about a rapping Founding Father, but that’s just...
COMMENTARY: Texas’ bail system is costing us all a fortune
BY GREG GLODIf you ask anyone, regardless of their political views, who they would rather have behind bars awaiting trial: Someone who poses a...
COMMENTARY: Teaching kids today about 9/11
BY MICHAEL B. STOFFOn Sept. 12, 2001, I was revising a middle-school textbook I had co-authored with another historian when I received a call...
COMMENTARY: To help hurricane victims don’t talk climate change
BY ROBERT PRENTICEHumans love to be right and hate being wrong. They go through life looking for evidence that what they already believe is...
COMMENTARY: RGV concert Thursday at Havana Club in McAllen to help Harvey victims
BY STATE REP. R.D. 'BOBBY' GUERRATexans have swiftly banded together, offering their unwavering support and extending helping hands to the many coastal families that...
COMMENTARY: Transparency in government leads to real news for all
BY KELLEY SHANNONWhether depending on our government for storm recovery, good schools, police protection or other important services, openness and access to information are...