Opinion

The chainsaws and wood chipper that Asplundh crews wielded in our quiet community last week were pretty raucous—but they weren’t nearly as loud as the caustic reviews their arboreal expertise earned from homeowners in Canadian, whose trees were unfortunate enough to have grown up under an Xcel...

I KEEP SEEING PEOPLE say “It’s my freedom,” and “If you don’t like it and are scared of fake numbers, stay home.”

I LOVE BEING A TEXAN. Texans are interesting, stubborn, ornery, creative, caring, inordinately friendly and ferociously independent. This State is home to 28,995,881 (and counting) individuals strung across 268,596 square miles.

AS COVID-19 CASES RISE in Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott voices rising concern about the seriousness of the pandemic, state leaders are detailing another phase of extensive reopenings.

A COLUMN PUBLISHED IN OUR JUNE 4 edition, written by our ‘Good News’ reporter, Hannah Hegedus, included some inaccurate statistics that escaped our attention. We caught a little hell for them, too.

IN A NORMAL YEAR, local officials seeking reelection would have been on the ballot a month ago. Local elections were supposed to be held May 2 in Texas but were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, just like the runoff elections that were originally to be held that month.

To mask or not to mask? That is the question a lot of people are wrestling with as the coronavirus pandemic in Texas worsens. We as a culture have been here before. Americans have resisted seat belts, helmets, infant car seats, and other safety measures.

TEXANS HAVE BEEN WITNESSING things that would have been unthinkable until now: Surge teams, testing of nursing homes for COVID-19, and the National Guard helping to disinfect nursing home facilities around the state.

I HAVE A CONFESSION. Here lately, the media has consumed me. I find myself constantly on Twitter, Facebook and reading news articles. It’s all dark and each day the outlook seems worse.