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Are your summer or fall travel plans finalized yet? If the Big Bend area is on your agenda, it looks like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants you to reconsider. Under new rules being considered, Big Bend may soon be listed as a high pollution area (or in...

Making its way around the state today is news about a new poll purporting to show Texans prefering slot machines as a means to bridge the projected budget shortfall. It's a false choice, because the pollsters -- apparently paid for by the gaming industry -- only asked...

. . . not! Excuse me, I meant to say TOO LIBERAL for Texas. The Texas Democrats gathered in Corpus Christi this past week for their state convention, and while I attended the Republican Party of Texas convention in Dallas earlier this month, I figured I should educate...

People receiving extended unemployment benefits should be required to provide a public service while getting public assistance, so says Texas' Workforce Commission chairman Tom Pauken. Predictably, critics, such as the Texas AFL-CIO, have blasted the idea. In a...

This past weekend’s Dallas Morning News carried a predictable, editorial which sadly reflects the views of many in our society who believe themselves to be educated but aren’t. Here’s the headline: “Challenges to Straus put ideology ahead of the state” and it starts...

As we all know, the next legislative session will be consumed by redistricting, along with the biennial budget, a voter ID bill, a sonogram bill, a possible immigration debate, and a potential challenge to Joe Straus for the Speaker's gavel. However, redistricting is...

Since I commented on Speaker Straus' headlining of a fundraiser for State Representative Patrick Rose, I have gotten to know his opponent, Jason Isaac, and the people of HD 45. Many people had told me that Jason was "the real deal," someone who stands by his...