WASHINGTON — Patience might not be among the special skills possessed by those harassing Supreme Court justices outside their homes. But a little more patience could prove more productive for abortion rights advocates as well as for our fragile republic.
WASHINGTON — The water level in Nevada's Lake Mead has fallen so low that authorities found two bodies previously hidden in the reservoir's depths, one an apparent homicide victim stuffed into a barrel. Upstream along the Colorado River, in shrinking Lake Powell, another set of waterlogged human remains was recently found in a submerged car. Meanwhile, the bodies of long-dead mountain climbers are emerging from the melting glaciers of the Himalayas and the Alps.
WASHINGTON -- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson must be having second thoughts. When she takes her seat on the Supreme Court, she will be joining an institution whose out-of-control majority values religious dogma -- and raw political power -- over the freedoms our Constitution is supposed to guarantee. And she'll become the junior member of a club that increasingly seems riven by animosity.
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Democrats are working through the five stages of grief when it comes to inflation -- and, by extension, their midterm prospects. On some economic metrics, Democrats have much to celebrate heading into the midterms.
Somewhere along the way to these times when nothing seems to work, "customer service" became an oxymoron. How many times have you listened to scratchy "hold" music, or have been asked to download an app instead of talking to a person, or have been warned that "your wait time is 35 minutes" -- and then contemplated screaming? How often have you raised your voice when someone finally picked up? I'll bet that you, like me, have skipped a refund or a return because the value of your sanity and time exceeded the price of whatever it was you lost.
2022 is an election year, a chance for Texas voters to tell the people who represent them what the state needs and what it doesn’t need, to bear down on the biggest problems we face together and to ignore the distractions that keep us from that important work.
State Representative Brian Harrison, who has multiple children who attend Midlothian Independent School District (MISD), announced his endorsement of Mike Dillow for MISD School Board Place 4. This is Rep. Harrison’s first local endorsement since joining the Texas Legislature last year after winning a special election in which he earned the support of an overwhelming majority of Midlothian voters.