Opinion

Panic buttons, locked doors for Texas schools Texas public schools would have to install panic buttons in classrooms and ensure all doors and windows are locked and monitored under new proposed safety standards released last week by the Texas Education Agency.

ALL PRESIDENTS, BEGINNING WITH Washington, occasionally lied to the public, either intentionally or unintentionally. But no past President ever came close to lying to the public—to us—so blatantly, so often and so consistently as Donald Trump.

OASIS…A WORD THAT WAS first given a physical definition as a fertile spot in a desert. It was the terminology used for the areas that could offer a supply of water and vegetation to craving and hopeless explorers.

Early voting ends Friday; election is Tuesday, Nov. 8 Early voting for the general election ends on Friday, Nov.

VOTE NO to alcohol sales here in Canadian. The election is not to prohibit the use of alcohol—just the sale.

IN THE MIDST OF AN UGLY, divisive, and far too long, campaign season, nothing could be better for cleaning out the exhaust pipes than taking an evening walk on the Canadian River Wagon Bridge on a slightly cool fall day in October.

Business leaders predict DACA end will cause crisis Dozens of business leaders, including several in Texas, are urging Congress to protect young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, warning that the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would exacerbate workforce...

THERE’S NOTHING LIKE Friday Night Lights in Texas. Where else can you see communities fill up stadiums to the tens of thousands to cheer on and encourage our youth? Anyone who has played on those fields knows how thundering stadiums of cheering fans can give you the extra motivation to succeed.

PROSPECTIVE VOTERS HERE can be described as bored and indifferent about the approaching midterm election. Local voters are not motivated. Our congressman is running unopposed. So are our county judge, state representative, and state senator.

ONCE A CENTURY, a Texas politician comes along that boggles the imagination, not for their skill but for their inexplicable success.