texas

The pro-lifers who fight to make abortion unnecessary
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
May 09, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — Abortion-rights’ supporters’ sky-is-falling hysteria is contributing mightily to the misapprehension that the leaked draft U.S. Su...
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America’s semiconductor problem
Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2022
America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integra...
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Pandemic life doesn’t have to be that way
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jan 18, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requi...
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Texas gives Dems midterm edge
Opinion, Сolumns
NOLAN FINLEY, Tribune News Service 
Sep 11, 2021
Texas Republicans just handed back to Democrats the mid-term election advantage President Joe Biden has spent all year squandering. By effectively mak...
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RTS for Sept 1
News, Round the Square
Sep 01, 2021
STUDENT DEBT: With the average student loan debt reaching $37,000 per borrower, the personal-finance website WalletHub released a report on 2021’s Sta...
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Parents try home-schooling in face of endless COVID
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 31, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Driving home Wednesday after our first day of co-op schooling, I felt overwhelmingly grateful. Many of my friends have spent...
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Yes, remember the Alamo
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 21, 2021
No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spi...
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Texas Dems insult voters
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jul 20, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Based on the fawning national media coverage, you’d think that Texas Democratic legislators are nothing short of civil-right...
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An ominous prelude to the Fourth of July
Сolumns
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Jun 29, 2021
This year’s celebration of the Fourth of July provides a particularly apt occasion for considering the health of our republic. Opinions vary. One frie...
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How to celebrate Juneteenth
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 21, 2021
On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas. They carried a message for the 250,000 enslaved people of the Confederate stat...
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Motherhood is not an end
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jun 15, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas — Paxton Smith, the 2021 valedictorian at Richardson’s Lake Highlands High School, spoke at her commencement about her opposition to...
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Voting bill isn’t Jim Crow 2.0
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jun 08, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas — Count me among the cohort of conservative writers who tired quickly of the claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate. It wasn...
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In Texas, Democrats thwart will of majority
Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jun 04, 2021
Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...
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Dire predictions about end of mask mandate way off
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Apr 13, 2021
Dire COVID predictions about end of mask mandate were way off. Let’s be glad for that Recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged something truly shockin...
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A heartbeat is life
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Apr 06, 2021
How Texas fetal heartbeat bill advances cause — perhaps all the way to Supreme Court For millions of parents the world over, the image of a tiny heart...
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US must invest in infrastructure
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 08, 2021
The decisions (or the lack thereof) that made Texas’ power grid vulnerable to the calamitous winter storm that left millions without heat and water ar...
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RTS for Feb. 27
Round the Square
Marcie 
Feb 27, 2021
HARD WORK: Wallethub.com completed a survey of various cities within the US and determined a list of the Top 20 Hardest-Working Cities. The winner was...
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Simple lesson of Texas blackouts
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 24, 2021
The details of what went wrong in Texas last week — most likely the biggest forced blackout in U.S. history — will take time to establish. So will exa...
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