Editorials

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.

There was a time when people trusted the schools to which they sent their children. They assumed the institutions’ focus was on education — and nothing more.

Gov. Greg Abbott is committed to public funding for private schools, especially those that include religious instruction. State legislators offered bills to that effect during the recent session, but Abbott said they didn’t go far enough.

While most Americans have been focused on Donald Trump’s indictments and Greg Abbott’s border buoys, another development has received scant attention. In recent weeks, Cuba has been building new relationships with old allies that have started reasserting themselves, and in violent ways.

To many people in the United States, life in this country is a privilege to be appreciated. To many foreign nationals seeking refugee status here, it’s their only hope to stay alive.

The McAllen City Commission on Monday will consider a request to rezone nearly 100 acres of city-owned southside land from agricultural to light industrial. The change might help facilitate sale of the land to Zoho Corp., a multibillion-dollar global technology company that could create 500 high-tech jobs with salaries starting at $45,000. It also would be a significant development for south McAllen, which many people have said has received too little attention from city planners.

Some people might think that Texas is beginning to look more like scenes from old movies about people toiling under brutal conditions in the Old South, and might wonder if we’ll start seeing prison chain gangs along our highways anytime soon.