Many political themes we'll see over the coming months are as historic as the Capitol's pink dome: disputes between the chambers, intra-party squabbles, the waft of corruption and the race against the ever forward-marching legislative calendar.
Texans recognize that the problems at CPS are not with the hardworking people in the agency but are the natural result of legacy thinking, which trusts the state to institutionalize, engineer and manage families.
With energy production crossing new borders in the Gulf of Mexico, our research collaborations must do the same if they wish to keep up.
We must ensure that taxpayer money is spent as efficiently as possible and demand accountability from state agencies for each dollar that the Legislature appropriates.
The fetal remains rule move places an additional barrier on women who seek to exercise their constitutional right and represents another attempt to shame and restrict access to abortion care.
In 2015, Democrats were less frequently able to keep legislation they opposed off of the floor or gain majority backing for legislation they supported.
We cannot allow local governments to pick and choose the laws they want to enforce.
The Texas Association of Business claims that legislation that allows businesses to protect women and young girls is "discriminatory," but this couldn't be further from the truth.
I work for abortion access in Texas: I'm used to fighting uphill.
With your help, we can do even more to preserve the lands we call home and the water we depend on.
The rhetoric of President-elect Donald Trump against Mexican-Americans is striking, but the ideas aren't new. Latinos and Latinas faced similar attacks in Texas more than 160 years ago from the Know-Nothing movement.
The answer to Houston's pension problems is compromise.
Learn more about middle market best practices that close the valuation gap.
For decades, El Pasoans have been working to preserve 7,000 acres in Castner Range. It's time the rest of Texas understood why this piece of land should matter to us all and how national monument status will protect it.
With Republicans all but certain to control all three branches of federal government in 2017, Texas may be the consummate political model for the country
As we commemorate World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, our hope is health care providers, the public and policymakers in Texas realize the virus is still invading neighborhoods at astonishing rates, often so silently that increasing numbers of youth don't realize they are living with HIV.
In faith-based foster care, there is an increased likelihood of prospective foster and adoptive parents’ theological and personal convictions directly conflicting with the acceptance and affirmation LGBT youth require.
While many Americans living in Texas and across the country have concerns about the agenda of the incoming Trump administration, children living in El Paso and along the U.S.-Mexico border have perhaps the most pressing and heartbreaking questions one could imagine.
The very survival of our republic depends on an educated, engaged, and information-savvy populace.
Texas must do all it can to ensure that it remains open to business for all, including members of the LGBT community.
