Texas Press Association Capital Highlights

TEA directed to make schools safer Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Education Agency to ensure school facilities are made safer in the wake of the killing of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

Politicians Should Resist Urge to 'Do Anything' to Stop School Shootings

After a gunman murdered 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last week, politicians responded as they always do to such shocking crimes.

Let Me Count the Ways….

In 1845, poetess Elizabeth Barrett tried to count the ways she loved Robert Browning, her suitor and eventual husband. Her heralded message came through with clarity in her poem, “How Do I Love Thee?

Out of Formula

Parents still struggle to find baby formula. The left and most media (sorry, same thing?) blame "corporate power run amok." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, "There might be a need for indictment!" They blame Abbott Laboratories, because it shut down a Similac plant.

Texas Press Association Capital Highlights

Gunman walked into school building unopposed The gunman who killed 21 people inside a Uvalde elementary school walked into the unlocked building unopposed, the Department of Public Safety said in a revised statement, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman and other media sources.

Commonly Touted Policies Are Ill-suited To Stopping Mass Shooters

"In New York," former Gov. Andrew Cuomo bragged on Sunday, "we passed the best (gun control) laws in the nation." Although those laws manifestly did not prevent the mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, Cuomo thinks the answer is more legislation of the same sort.

And Then They Shook Hands….

It’s an expression rarely heard these days, perhaps because there are so many lenses through which life-ina-hurry can be viewed. When’s the last time you heard, “I saw it with my own eyes”?

Government Delays Flights

Planning to fly this summer? Good luck. Delays are up. Cancellations, too. Why? Because of the pilot shortage. A pilot shortage? How can this be? Flying is a A pilot shortage? How can this be? Flying is a popular job. Some people fly small planes just for fun.

Capital Highlights

Wildfires continue across state Firefighters are looking to the skies for much-needed rain this week as crews continue battling wildfires across the state. Fires reported Sunday by the Texas A&M Forest Service were being fought in Brown, Taylor, Wilbarger, Llano, Schleicher and San Saba counties.

New York's Governor Wants to 'Silence' Protected Speech

When politicians echo Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous observation about "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater," it typically means they are trying to justify unconstitutional speech restrictions. So it was with New York Gov.