Commentary & Opinion
UISD, name it the Carroll Summers Aquatic Center
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Summers: “A student must know two things in life. Read and Swim.”
Commentary & Opinion
Texas AG Ken Paxton: a shady power grabber
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Indicted official welcomed to Laredo; has avoided trial for five years
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Texas Republican Congressmen who pushed the “constitutional carry” bill in Austin have yet to realize they could foist an oligarchy led by double-talking demagogues
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If we didn’t take care of our democracy, is America heading for an impending impericidio (national suicide)?
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Republican legislators: control the curriculum; tiptoe around slavery and racism, rewrite history
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Richard Raymond, lone Democrat to support that effort
Commentary & Opinion
The roots of Central American migration: gang violence, civil war, poverty, the lack of employment to sustain a family
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The matter needs serious bi-partisan attention
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Utterances of racism 52 years ago persist indelibly in memory
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The jailer in Palmetto, GA evoked characters in The Heat of the Night
Commentary & Opinion
Former U.S. Army Lt. Col., now Texas GOP Chair Allen West: a fear-monger removed from military service for torturing an Iraqi detainee
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West in Laredo as part of right wing foray to document non-existent dangers of non-existent “border crisis” rooted — like the border wall — in hate and xenophobia
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Hinojosa counters Gov. Abbot’s claim in Mission that migrants have brought COVID into Texas
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This rhetoric of the border being a lawless and violent place, and blaming Latino migrants for bringing in COVID-19 into Texas is racist and dangerous, and it’s downright incorrect.
Commentary & Opinion
John Lewis: crossing the bridge, then and now
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Well we could learn from his “good trouble”