Editorials

Many people admire Elon Musk and his ability to succeed in so many, and varied, enterprises. That success has enabled the self-made entrepreneur to become the world’s richest person.

To say that the current surge of migrants to our border is a crisis would be an understatement. The hundreds of thousands of people seeking to enter our country and escape violence, corruption and dysfunction in their home countries has become a major part of our current political dialog.

This is Rail Safety Week, an annual effort to focus on the need to work toward making train-related accidents as rare as possible.

Another border operation, another questionable shooting, another example of why our continued use of military personnel is wrong for border operations — especially when those operations are only intended to win political points with voters who are afraid people who don’t look like they do.

Donald Trump isn’t the first politician who refused to accept defeat, and he isn’t the first to face criminal conviction. He is, of course, the first president in this position — Richard Nixon resigned and was pardoned before formal charges were ever brought against him for his involvement in covering up a burglary of Democratic Party headquarters and other acts against political rivals.

Finally, somebody has the guts to stand up to Greg Abbott.

Students are returning to class with changes that while intended to reduce the possibility of on-campus shootings, actually has increased concerns among many Texans.

One of the major failings of President Joe Biden’s efforts to cull down the number of asylum cases is its primary mandate, that refugees must initiate their petitions within their home countries or another country through which they travel to get to the United States.

Forget fentanyl and foreigners; the greatest threat to public health in the Rio Grande Valley is cars and cocktails.

Few people would argue that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to the brave men and women who are willing to — and often do — place their health and very lives in harm’s way in order to protect our nation, its people and interests through military service. They deserve — and need — our help in dealing with any injuries and disabilities they might have suffered as a result of that service.