Opinion

Body CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration late last week after the New World screwworm was found in two calves in South Texas, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Body One of my great drive-in memories dates to 1969, when my parents took my five sisters and me to see “Herbie the Love Bug” in our Plymouth Fury III station wagon.

Body Attorney General Ken Paxton and his allies began working to repair fissures among GOP voters after he routed incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in the March 26 runoff, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Body “You get a line and I’ll get a drone, honey / You get a line and I’ll get an app, babe…” Or something like that.

Body My late mother would have been tickled by a front-page Wall Street Journal story that appeared on her 99th birthday.

Body Dozens of Texas wind projects have been halted because the Department of Defense has not approved the federal permits required for them to move forward, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Body Early voting in both the Democratic and Republican runoff races ends Friday, May 22, with the election on Tuesday, May 26. On the GOP side, the statewide runoffs are: U.S.

Body The Social Security Administration just released the most popular baby names for 2025, and they reveal an unfortunate trend. Girls’ names lean toward elegance and tradition — names our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had.

Body I wish every child could be blessed to have a mother like mine. When my five sisters and I were babies in her womb, she never took so much as an aspirin for a headache — never ingested anything but the nutrients we needed to grow healthy and strong.

Body CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Top Texas legislators are pushing to waive a new state law that requires camps to install broadband fiber optics in order to legally operate this summer, The Dallas Morning News reported. Scores of camps are struggling to meet the deadline.