Ed Sterling wrote this column for almost three decades, so let’s open by celebrating his contributions to the Texas Press Association and its members. Ed was the calm, steady voice keeping u... Read more
COVID-19 turned aggressive to the point last week that the Department of Defense activated U.S. Army and U.S. Navy medical task force teams and assigned them to Texas at Gov. Greg Abbott’s r... Read more
Gov. Greg Abbott has again suspended elective surgeries in hospitals in 104 counties located within 11 of the state’s 22 trauma service areas. Each of the trauma service areas has a region... Read more
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on July 2 issued an executive order to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus while keeping Texas as open as possible for business. With few exceptions, the o... Read more
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott pledged to institute police reforms when he met with the Houston family of George Floyd, who was handcuffed and killed by police in front of a Minneapolis conveni... Read more
Like most Americans, I have always considered the United States an exceptional country. We possess a political system built on checks and balances, an ideal of giving voice to ordinary peo... Read more
Texans have been witnessing things that would have been unthinkable until now: Surge teams, testing of nursing homes for COVID-19 and the National Guard helping to disinfect nursing home f... Read more
For most Americans, today’s lockdowns and social distancing requirements are new. For my family, they’re what we do every flu season. That’s because our son, Hunter, has a rare condition k... Read more
WASHINGTON, DC, May 18 – AMAC Action has provided the Congress and the Administration a series of recommendations aimed at safeguarding seniors’ interests within the flurry of legislative p... Read more
Texas has learned a lot about itself — and its education system — through the coronavirus crisis. We’ve learned how critical education is to parents’ work schedules, to civic engagement, to... Read more