If our state leaders wanted to, they could produce better methane standards that work for all Texans, including the communities that have to breathe the pollution the oil and gas industry creates. I’m not holding my breath though.
Amid the lively national conversations around campaign finance reform, what isn’t discussed nearly as much is the role that money is playing in state and local elections.
Too often, politicians use religion to demonize certain ideas or people, but ignore what Pope Francis asks us to do, “protecting the vulnerable” and “committing ourselves to the conscious and responsible care of our common home.”
How higher education evolves and adapts to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population will be critical to Texas’ long-term ability to satisfy workforce demands and remain prosperous and competitive.
You may not remember the dark days of Texas' workers’ compensation system some three decades ago. But I can assure you, having lived it, Texas doesn’t want to go back there.
When it comes to courtroom ethics, the means to an end is as important as the end itself. While Travis County’s partnership with Texas Mutual may be legal, county leaders and prosecutors should ask, “Is it ethical?"
New EPA rules pose a direct threat to our oil and natural gas revolution. Even worse, they are largely a Washington-designed solution still searching for a problem.
In his battle cry inciting Congress and fellow governors to denounce the Affordable Care Act, Greg Abbott states loud and clear that my life and the lives of the million-plus Texans receiving health care via Obamacare don’t matter to him.
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has talked about reform and a “reboot” of the General Land Office. But there's proof that the office had been a success, and morale is now actually dropping among agency employees.
The taxpayer protections that are the real targets of the city’s lawsuit are well established in law. Any suit to overturn them is simply frivolous.
Property taxes should be based on the true market value of properties. Our system should be uniformly fair, not uniformly unfair.
Campaign finance was never exactly intuitive, and post Citizens United, it gets even less so. What can churches do? What can corporations do? And what’s up with the alphabet soup of political organizations that have proliferated across the landscape?
Many Texans are locked out of careers because they cannot afford to give up the time and money it takes to get licensed.
There is a creeping national narrative that seeks to re-cast #BlackLivesMatter as a symbol of ill will. And Texas is ground zero for the debate.
Though declining oil prices are making their mark on the state’s economy, Texans have great faith that the Lone Star State will adapt and keep revving its job-creation engine.
Texas’ proposed rate cuts to Medicaid’s acute pediatric care therapy would be devastating to our daughter's care. We must compel the state’s health officials to come up with something better.
There's a reason that Donald Trump is leading the field of Republican presidential candidates. His message resonates with Americans who feel that our country is in the midst of a steep decline.
As Congress prepares to reconvene in September, House Republicans cannot hold the fiscal purse of our nation captive in favor of reviving the failed fight to defund Planned Parenthood.
Given decreases in funding and staffing at state and local health departments in the years since Hurricane Katrina, Texas may not be as prepared to care for storm evacuees in the future.
On his trip to Texas this week, Ted Cruz will avoid Texas’ biggest cities — and by and large, its fast-growing Latino population.
