Opinion

LAWS ARE LAWS until judges or legislators toss them out. For political purposes, a law that doesn’t survive court challenges can still count as a win—as long as it remains in place through an election.

I ENDED 2021 WITH A BANG, proving that what happens in Las Vegas—or more likely the airport there—does not necessarily stay in Las Vegas. I found out last week that I had COVID, and more importantly, it also had me.

Emergency SNAP benefits again extended The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is again extending emergency food benefits this month, with more than $307 million in emergency allocations expected to help more than 1.5 million Texas households.

FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES or more, our first issue of the New Year has traditionally been devoted to a review of the year just past.

AT THE BEGINNING of every year for the past 73 years since this newspaper has been under the independent ownership of the Ezzell family, we have published a statement of principles which has guided us in the week-to-week conduct of The Record.

Abbott seeks more testing sites, antibodies Texas is seeking more federally funded COVID-19 testing locations and additional federal allocations of monoclonal antibodies used to treat the virus in six counties facing increased cases because of the omicron variant: Bexar, Cameron, Dallas, Harris,...

A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago, on this page, we published a photo of Luz Flores’ home, not-yet completed following the installation of new windows. The work was really the culmination of a project—begun as part of the annual Go!

THE CANADIAN COMMUNITY Center would like to say thank you to everyone who supported us during the Panhandle Gives. We would not be able to carry out our mission “to improve the health and vitality of our community” without all the enthusiastic community support.

WITH NEW POLITICAL MAPS like these, it would have been surprising if the U.S. Department of Justice had decided not to sue the state of Texas.