In her latest What keeps you up at night? podcast, columnist Lynn Schmidt shares her concerns over Project 2025 and the current state of America's politics.
Before heading off to North Korea last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “peace” offering to Ukraine. He pledged an immediate cease-fire and peace negotiations if Ukraine withdraws from four partially occupied regions and abandons its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz…
While some might say there’s no comparison between the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021 and pro-Palestinian protesters paralyzing institutions of higher learning in Texas and beyond, it’s again time to remind all of our First Amendment freedoms. The First Amendment (along with th…
Republican Congressman Pete Sessions of Waco finally made crazed Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hate list last weekend. Incensed that Sessions and 138 other Republicans voted against her hail-Marjorie amendment to strip funding from legislation bolstering Ukraine’s war against Russia…
Welcome to eclipse weekend in Waco. We hope visitors enjoy their stay as everyone looks forward to Monday’s total solar eclipse.
Let’s talk gospel: The weeks leading to Easter Sunday have done little to restore one’s faith in mankind. Republican House members risk being swept up in another distracting leadership battle, initiated by rabble-rousing Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Texas-Mexico border remains a hive of chaos…
Three years after supporters of President Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol, Texans remain key players in the legal and political fallout of Jan. 6. Only this week East Texan Alex Harkrider, 36, a Marine veteran, was convicted for his role in the violence. Evidence included a social media post…
In a question-and-answer session with the Waco Tribune-Herald editorial board in 2022, Texas House candidate Angelia Orr, a Republican from Hill County, offered the following:
Thursday’s retirement announcement by state Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson, 78, of Waco conjures up an unusually benign presence for a latter-day Republican. He has always seemed happier discussing Texas weather and sending birthday greetings to constituents than, say, dwelling on the rural-ver…
If funding is available to complete the final leg of construction on Interstate 35 in Waco, Metropolitan Planning Organization officials should jump at the chance.
For the better part of a decade, the majority of Texas voters have chosen to elect and reelect a morally and ethically bankrupt politician as our state’s top law enforcement officer because he files lawsuits against the federal government and, despite our supposed belief in states’ rights, h…
Several critical themes surfaced when members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee set up in Waco last week for a “listening session” ahead of cobbling together a massive farm bill, but collectively they made a point that should be raised more often: Food security in America equates to na…
“America’s dirty little secret is that thousands of people go to jail without ever talking to a lawyer.”
The Waco Tribune-Herald editorial board joins local news media colleagues and free speech advocates everywhere in welcoming Judge David Hodges’ rethinking and amendment of his Jan. 9 order forbidding news media from “reporting or disclosing” to the public information in the Marian Fraser mur…
One must marvel at last week’s circus maximus in the U.S. House of Representatives, given that some of us are directly responsible: After narrowly returning to power a party that enabled and excused the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, voters watched as Republican House members …
In a season marking long-ago signs and interpretations of joy, wonder and foreboding as chronicled in the Gospel of Matthew, one is challenged to ponder not only Thursday’s release of former Baylor University basketball standout Brittney Griner from Russian captivity — and just two weeks bef…
The Waco Tribune-Herald will cease publishing a COVID-19 tracker box on the front page after Saturday’s edition. With the exception of six days in 2020, it has been a fixture on our front page since the very early days of the coronavirus pandemic. State health officials are doing away with r…
OUR VIEW: A clean break is needed, not timid hedging that hopes he’ll go away on his own
OUR VIEW: Democracy shines while Trump and transparency tumble
When it comes to holding the line on property taxes, only six taxing entities in McLennan County delivered in 2022.
One can understand the tension Waco Independent School District officials displayed Thursday: During a debate over architectural designs already approved for rebuilding Waco High School, G.W. Carver Middle School and Tennyson Middle School, each trustee had to wonder if he or she might one d…
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
Public ignorance and blind party loyalty are a candidate's best friend.
When conservatives talk about so-called “entitlements,” they act as if it’s charity.
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Chronic distraction to learning needs restriction so teachers can teach
As veterans dutifully remind us, Memorial Day is set aside to recognize our war dead, those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, often on faraway battlefields, so the rest of America — our homes, our livelihoods, our children, our captains of industry and those freedoms inherent i…
Road construction is everywhere in Waco, it seems. Waco Drive, Washington Avenue, Fifth Street, Elm Avenue and Highway 6 are awash in the familiar tint of orange construction cones. One might say the construction cone is Waco’s new mascot.
It’s going to be difficult to justify anything other than the no-new-revenue rate when local entities set their 2022 tax rates. Valuations for existing residential property rose 30% year over year, and the McLennan County Appraisal District expects more than 18,000 property owners to protest…
Hobbled by an unwillingness to admonish and discipline a vocal pro-Putin wing of their own party, House Republican leadership last week took another hit: Sixty-three Republican lawmakers in the lower chamber including Waco-based Congressman Pete Sessions voted against a House resolution supp…
