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I Can Hear You
Twenty-five years after September 11, America remembers the day we were attacked. We should also remember the brief moment afterward when we remembered that…
We Have to Be Better Than This
When Does Disagreement Become Intimidation? After another contentious Temple City Council meeting, violent language and deeply personal messages aimed at local officials offer a…
“What We’re Doing Matters”
After months of protests, accusations and a failed recall effort, Temple Mayor Tim Davis delivered an unusually personal defense of the city’s data-center strategy…
Transparency for Thee?
Temple Stands Together demanded answers from City Hall. Its own campaign-finance records now leave a different set of questions unanswered. Temple Stands Together was…
The Question Nobody Is Asking
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has focused attention on the medications she received before killing her three children. But the more important question may be…
The United States Just Hit $40 Trillion in Debt. Here’s What That Actually Means
The milestone is mostly symbolic. The cost of carrying that debt and the fact that Washington continues adding to it during relatively normal economic…
When Extradition Becomes a Bargaining Chip
Minnesota says Gov. Greg Abbott is violating the Constitution by withholding the extradition of an ICE agent charged with assault. Abbott first raised a…
The Camera Isn’t the Question Anymore
Automated license plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars and wanted suspects. As those cameras become part of nationwide, AI-searchable networks,…
Did This Poll Ever Happen?
A fake polling firm slipped fabricated numbers into American elections and called it a “social experiment.” The more troubling question is how voters are…
Loose Lips, Broken Ships?
What the USS Abraham Lincoln Is Telling Us About War, Endurance and Secrecy My first reaction was not particularly sympathetic. Nine months? That was…