Commentary
Women’s March: How A National Pro-Abortion Organization Is Targeting Amarillo
Women’s March Executive Director, Rachel O’Leary Carmona, has been a resident of Amarillo since 2021.
Y’All Answered: Golden Parachutes for School Superintendents?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Dade Phelan Claims He is Democrats’ Choice for Speaker
Phelan’s repeated reliance on Democrats for political survival should serve as the final straw for any Republican who is still trying to portray him as a friend of conservative values.
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Commentary Archive
Kecseg: What’s Your Lawmaker’s Pro-Life Plan for 2021?
Texans need to be asking all candidates during election season what reforms they plan on passing in 2021. We should not be satisfied with pats on the head. Politicians always want something from you during election season: your vote, money, time, contacts. They want...
Blain: Black Americans Want Cops in Their Neighborhoods
Did you see the Gallup poll on defunding the police? According to the poll, 81 percent of Black people want police to spend the same amount of time or more in their neighborhoods. We noted this sentiment in an Urban Reform update a few weeks ago. Residents in these...
Evans: An Insider’s Take on Allen’s Latest School Bond Proposal
On July 27, Allen Independent School District’s citizen bond committee presented their final spending recommendations to the board of trustees. The 80-member “Project Kids” committee recommended a bond package of just over $222 million to meet the needs of the...
Pierson: Texas Cities Will Go the Way of Seattle If Biden Wins
Every American city—even in the heart of Texas—would become just like Portland, Minneapolis, and Seattle if Joe Biden wins the presidential election. In Minneapolis, rioters burned down a police station after feckless politicians ordered officers to abandon it. In...
Coronavirus Mandate Stories: ‘Restrictions on Visiting My Husband Are Cruel’
For six long weeks, Rebecca Taylor has had to fight both the hospital and a statewide government mandate in caring for her beloved comatose husband. She’s begged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for help, but in the meantime, other Texans can join her cause. “Hordes of people...
Commentary: Time for Texas Parents to Take Back Public Schools From the Radical Left
Public school parents are now seeing firsthand what so many of us who have been fighting hard to take back our public schools from the radical left have been dealing with for years. I want to be absolutely clear here, because this moment is critically important to not...
Commentary: Trump Should Stay the Course on Drug Pricing Order
The Trump Administration on Friday took a dramatic step to break Big Pharma’s hold on American drug prices in Medicare Part B, announcing an executive order aimed at drastically reducing the costs of the most expensive Medicare drugs by linking them to the lowest-cost...
Commentary: The Wild Polling Spectrum
We’ve seen a plethora of presidential state polls released in the past couple of days, and the results seem to swing wildly among the various pollsters. While most studies have shown former Vice President Joe Biden at present winning most of the key states, his...
Coronavirus Mandate Stories: Special-Needs Individuals Treated Like Prisoners
For months, a mother has been banned from being with her son with special needs, due to a statewide mandate barring visitation. With his condition deteriorating, his mom is begging Gov. Greg Abbott daily to act, and a coalition of Texas state senators and state...