Getting it right always come first
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I am going to New York. I have not been to New York since before the pandemic.
Opinion
In-state tuition guidance creating confusion
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Advocates for undocumented college students claim some learners have been told incorrectly they are no longer eligible for low in-state tuition rates, the Texas Tribune reports. They are asking for clear guidance on the issue.
“Writing about writing can be fun”
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I try not to write about writing. Like any job, parts of it are harder than others.
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a big win for Texas on border security‘
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Throughout the Biden administration, Texas suffered from an unprecedented wave of illegal migration resulting from the president’s failure to secure our southern border. Texas was forced to step up, and Gov. Greg Abbott created Operation Lone Star, a multi-pronged effort to try and secure the border. Earlier this year, Abbott asked Congress to reimburse our state for the $11 billion that he should never have had to spend to keep Texans safe as millions of migrants illegally entered our country.
DPS officers arrest thousands of undocumented immigrants
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In Lone Star 2.0, more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants have been arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety officers this year, according to records obtained by The Texas Tribune. As illegal border crossings plunge, state police are shifting their energies toward aiding the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort.
Writing about writing can be fun
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I try not to write about writing. Like any job, parts of it are harder than others.
Open government impacts our lives in big ways
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If you wonder how open government laws affect you, think about these basics: The local taxes we pay. The roads we drive on.
Abbott limits THC products to those 21 and older
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After two special sessions ended without lawmakers agreeing on how to regulate the state’s THC market, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order restricting the use of products infused with the psychoactive cannabis compound to adults age 21 and older, The Dallas Morning News reported.
How Trump, Texas could transform U.S. healthcare
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America’s health care system is stuck in the past and long overdue for transformation. Despite remarkable advancements in medical science and technology, its structural foundation remains frozen in time, built on mid-20th-century policy decisions that prioritized hospital construction and highly specialized care over preventive, community-based primary care. This deep misalignment between how we pay for care and what people actually need isn’t just inefficient — it’s costing us dearly in both dollars and lives.
Whatever the next day will bring
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My niece Isabelle is leaving for Argentina, and I don’t know how I’m going to stand it. Isabelle is an adult, although I don’t know how that is possible, because I remember clearly the day she was born, on an extraordinarily cold day 22 years ago, and surely, I can’t be that old.
