Commentary
Y’All Answered: Will Phelan Clinch the GOP Nomination for Speaker?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: Who Won the Debate?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Keep Information Laws Working as Intended to Help All Texans
Government information belongs to the people, and in almost all cases it needs to flow freely, without delay.
Y’All Answered: Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Your Community?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
Y’All Answered: Using Twitter?
With the purchase of the social media website Twitter by new Texas resident Elon Musk, we asked readers about their interest in using the platform. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to the Texas Minute! Here is a sample of the responses we...
Know What You Expect
We have been conditioned as citizens to treat politicians as our nation’s leaders. They are not; they are the people’s servants. Politicians are to "leadership" in our nation what the pimple-faced order-taker at a fast-food chain is to healthy nutrition. Only less so,...
Y’All Answered: A Stolen Election?
Earlier this month, the Rasmussen polling firm found that 55 percent of all Americans (and 75 percent of Republicans) believe cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. So yesterday we asked readers what they believed. Do you want to participate...
Plano ISD Can’t Afford $130 Million Event Center on November Ballot
Plano Independent School District cannot afford the $130 million event center on the November ballot as Proposition D. More specifically, Plano ISD's taxpayers, teachers, and students can't afford it—and the district knows it. Don't get me wrong. I would love to have...
Problems at the Polls? Make Sure Your Vote Counts
When it comes to casting your ballot, the old saying “trust but verify” is great advice, because so many things can go wrong. Voters need to know what to do in case one of those things happens to them. Below are a few of the most common issues voters encounter at the...
A Response To Dr. Whitney Mascorro, the Abilene Obstetrician Against Abortion Bans
On Sunday, October 16, the Abilene Reporter-News ran a story entitled, “Abilene obstetrician outlines concerns with ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance.” The story was part of a seven-part package looking at a variety of different angles of the SCFTU ordinance which Abilene...
Analysis: As a Citizen, Don’t Be a Gerety
In politics, there are two kinds of people: those who serve, and those who want to be served. In our self-governing republic, men and women step forward—often spending large sums of money—to be servants. Some feel they are answering a deeply personal call to improve...
Y’All Answered: Early Voting, or Just On Election Day?
With in-person early voting starting on Monday and continuing for the next two weeks, we asked what readers thought of the practice. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to the Texas Minute! Here is a sample of the responses we received. “Early...
Lake Travis School Bonds Raise Taxes; Voters Raise Questions
As more citizens get involved with their local school boards, more are calling for increased accountability, transparency, and due diligence. Gone are the days of blind faith in our administrators and our school board trustees. Maintaining the public trust is now...