Corporate California wants to call the shots for Texas car buyers
When manufacturers compete to make the best product and dealers compete to offer the best pricing and service, the ultimate winner is the Texas family.
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Freestanding emergency centers: a solution to health care challenges
FECs can increase access to care, improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.
Saving Texas kids, with private-sector help
With emergencies underway in the state's child protective services and foster care, Texas should allow non-profits, including faith-based organizations, to reach out to families in crisis, intervening before abuse or neglect occurs.
Prevention would prevent another child protection crisis
We shouldn’t just chase the CPS epidemic — let’s get ahead of it: Invest in prevention or watch more children suffer and pay dearly for it.
"Boomtown, Flood Town" Reconsidered: An Engineer's View
Hydrologists, floodplain managers, and engineers in the private and public sectors have done a remarkable job in reducing flood damages in our region. We will continue to make progress in this area, while addressing development, changes in rainfall patterns, and population growth in a sustainable manner.
Good policy is more than civic virtue
Contrary to the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and the presidential cabinet nominations that followed, qualifications matter. Public service may be a calling, but good policy is made from more than civic virtue. Leaders need training.
Texas should challenge the movement to boycott Israel
A strong Israeli economy backed by a thriving Texas market provides Palestinians the potential for greater self-sufficiency through gains in financial independence and economic solvency. And continued collaboration with Israel by Texans will not only benefit consumers, employers and economy of Texas, it promotes regional stability through economic interdependence.
Telemedicine can improve access to quality, affordable care in Texas
Telemedicine is an invaluable modern tool that improves access, convenience, efficiency and quality of care in Texas. Yet Texas has some of the strictest regulatory barriers limiting its use.
Give Texans tools they need to keep a watchful eye on Legislature
We ask Texans to put a lot of trust in us and believe that we as legislators are acting in their best interest. But lately, we've done a sorry job of ensuring people can both trust — and verify.
Give Texas nurses full authority to heal
Let’s help improve access to affordable care in a smart way that makes sense for Texas. Let’s change how we regulate advanced practice nursing.
To make Texas schools great, ditch the education savings accounts
If we are to uphold the Texas Constitution, we need to be clear on what the “support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools” means. Giving families taxpayer money to spend on private institutions has nothing to do with maintaining public free schools.
Educational Choice in Texas: The Fierce Urgency of Now
If we want to ensure that every one of our Texas schoolchildren has the opportunity to flourish, then we need to innovate beyond the antiquated method of conveyor-belt education, where children become “products,” and where parental freedom is quashed by “the system.”
School Choice Celebrates All Types of Education
School choice is not about advocating for one form of education over another. It is not about choosing private over public. Rather, school choice is about empowering parents with access to the best educational setting for their child — no matter where they live or how much money they make.
Parental rights bill could keep LGBTQ youth in the closet
Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth trust and confide in their teachers about their sexual orientation or gender identity when they perceive that their families will not be accepting. In many cases, a teacher may be the only adult that an LGBTQ youth has come out to.
A day full of surprises — and non-surprises
Legislators, police, and even organizers expected this march to be business as usual. But we know this is a new day.
Why President Trump is Wrong About Refugees
This executive order also undermines America's principles of fair and equal treatment of all people around the world regardless of race, religion or country of origin — core tenants of the U.S. Constitution and the founding of our country.
Why We March
Before the rally, I thought: I know, I know. My team lost and I’m supposed to get over it. Even if I can’t respect Donald Trump, the man, I must respect the office of president. I must celebrate a peaceful transfer of power and pray for the good of the nation. Now I am changed.
Texans can tell you voter fraud doesn’t exist
Voter suppression is the civil rights battle of our lifetime. And if we want to win, we need the Democratic Party to be front and center in this fight.
Proposed fetal burial rules play politics with Texans’ health
The state's proposed fetal tissue regulations are yet another example of a poorly masked attempt to limit Texans’ Constitutional right to access abortion. Thanks to protections secured under Roe v. Wade, Texans continue to be protected from attempts to prohibit and shame abortion care like the proposed fetal tissue rules.
Will ‘Pro-Life’ Bills Actually Save Lives?
Texans have again sent to the Legislature a pro-life majority, which includes some who merely profess that view for re-election efforts. Regardless, voters across the state expect those campaign promises to be upheld, protecting innocent unborn human life and safeguarding pregnant women.