Opinion

What unites Texans of all political persuasions is the nonpartisan principle that our government must operate in the sunlight. We have the right – and responsibility – to keep watch on how tax money is spent and how public officials make decisions.

At the committee’s request, the president of the Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA) laid out the profession’s top issues before the House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock on March 4. Don Ferrill, DVM, cautioned the panel that many bills backed by Wall Street concerns “will rest upon a faulty premise—that there is a massive shortage of veterinarians in Texas and across the country.” Expert data, he said, “simply does not bear this out.” Demand for office visits is trending downward, and 13 new veterinary colleges are being planned across the country.

National Ag Day is March 18. It’s a day for all of us to celebrate the abundance provided by American agriculture and recognize the farmers and ranchers who make it possible.

Every family has a rotten relative, a black sheep, the one relation you avoid above all others. Even Adolf Hitler.

I had not planned a party; that was the trouble. There is something ridiculous about a woman who has collected so many dresses that they barely fit in her adequately sized closet, showing up at her own anniversary party with nothing to wear.

The eyes of the nation will soon be glued to the U.S. House chamber once more for America’s annual spectacle: the State of the Union address. It’s a moment of high drama, a democratic version of European pomp and ceremony.