If big high schools are the problem, why aren’t there more small ones?
A pernicious staph infection is targeting athletes young and old—and igniting a debate over the hazards of artificial turf.
UT regents want their next chancellor to be an academic? Whatever. At Texas Tech, a politician is the one in charge, and he's more than making the grade.
In 2006 Texas schools still can’t teach English to Spanish-speaking students. Here’s what we should do about that—now.
There is no more important job than reshaping the military to confront a dark and dangerous future—and Pete Geren is reporting for duty.
Ron Kirk may be this year’s most jovial political candidate, but his bid for the U.S. Senate is as much about race as personality. He knows it. His fellow Democrats know it. And you’d better believe the Republicans know it.
Twenty-three other people with more clout than they know what to do with. (Well, they know exactly what to do with it.)
Rodney Ellis was excellent. Gary Elkins was well, significantly less so. Bill Ratliff was a model of dignified leadership. Domingo Garcia was a one-man leper colony. Our biennial roundup of the Legislature's leading lights and dim bulbs.
As we head into the most critical legislative session in decades—maybe ever—the question is not just, Who are the people with the most clout at the Capitol? It’s also, What do they want?
Ah, redistricting—that partisan, vengeful, hazardous battle for domination the Legislature fights every decade. Here we go again.