Commentary
Y’All Answered: Abolish Austin?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Michael Berlanga: Love Thy Neighborhood and Protest Your Taxes
Berlanga travels the state highlighting systemic issues with the property tax system and needed reforms.
Y’All Answered: College Campus Anti-Israel Protests
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Y’All Answered: What to do with Property Taxes
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Commentary Archive
Commentary, Federal, Local, State
Blain: Vote Local to Save Your Nation
The national election and issues surrounding it have dominated traditional media, social media, and seemingly every personal and professional conversation for months. While that’s expected—and candidates spend a lot of money to make it happen—it’s important to...
Election Predictions
As a journalist and political observer, I get variations of this question a lot during the final days of an election: So, who’s going to win? What’s going to happen? It’s predicated on the premise I have access to some inside knowledge of what will be decided. So...
Szwarc: What Is a Republican?
I am probably not alone in feeling disheartened by elected officials who are proving themselves to be politicians rather than public servants who do the right thing by the people who elected them. What does it mean to be a Republican? To Texans—especially in...
Peacock: Will Texans See Budget Gimmicks or Spending Restraint in 2021?
Every two years, thousands of lobbyists, industry reps, mayors, county commissioners, and other descend into the state Capitol building in Austin when the Texas Legislature convenes. And they all want one thing: your money. Unfortunately, for the most part, lawmakers...
Francis: Time for Clarity
It is 2020. It is time for clarity about where we are and where we are going as a nation. It is time for clarity about the fight we are in and what is at stake. For over 244 years, the United States was a place that welcomed and fostered differing opinions. In stark...
Slaton: Why I’m a White Light for Speaker, and What Could Change That
Next week we have an important election, and control of the Texas House is at stake. Democrats will spend well over $15 million to try to control the Texas legislature, and if that happens, Texans will be in danger. Since our victory in May, I have been in...
Ellis: Looking at the House
Virtually all election analysts are predicting that the Democrats will maintain their majority in next week’s national election with the principal unanswered question prompting speculation about whether they will add members to their party conference. Irrespective of...
Norred: Joe Biden and Media Corruption
If you ever thought for a minute that the mainstream media has an ounce of integrity, the Ukraine-Biden laptop story should put an end to it. Mainstream media is demonstrating its lockstep with the Democrat party in such a blatant way that no reasonable person can see...
King: The Furor Over Herd Immunity
A group of the world’s top epidemiologists and medical researchers set off a fire storm of controversy recently by issuing what has come to be known as the Great Barrington Declaration. The declaration argues that the collateral consequences of severe...