Will Arlington school buses attract ads?
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Selling advertising is not easy. Good luck to Arlington schools if they try it.
The Texas governor is showing welcome restraint in not ruling out the state’s participation in a proposed government-run health insurance plan.
It could be months before key details are known. For now, support those who serve.
A federal lawmaker is poised to overreact with a bill that would punish the wrong people — pilots who use their personal laptops as electronic flight bags.
If the goal of Rep. Michael Burgess’ political theater was providing constituents greater understanding of the latest House bill, he missed the mark.
Comptroller Susan Combs acted to shore up the Texas Guaranteed Tuition Plan’s solvency, but lawmakers howled.
The water district has been sparing in exercising its "takings" power.
Educating students shouldn’t take a back seat to research
Universities striving for Tier One must ensure that their research focus doesn’t lose sight of their main mission — teaching.
Some pharmaceutical companies manufacture their own praise
Ghostwriters play up positives and ignore negatives, then a stand-in submits a "report" to journals.
Seeking sound arguments and no exclamation points. Please!
Think you can be a columnist? It doesn’t require fancy footwork, but you have to follow some basic dance steps.
Education agency head shouldn’t match muscles with the Texas Legislature
Robert Scott says he’ll lift the cap on the number of charter schools in Texas.
Grand Prairie man is a victim of flawed Texas Lottery system
It seems clear who really won the lottery. So give Willis Willis his money.
No climate for a change treaty
No comprehensive agreement to save the world will come out of next month’s Copenhagen summit.
Life’s variety pack
America is filled with an amazing mix of characters and personalities, beliefs and traditions — and a healthy society needs them all.
Can the 10th Amendment save us?
Americans who want their country to return to its founding principles need to pick up a Constitution and take to the streets.
On black beauty, hair and the American media
Chris Rock’s new movie reflects the sense of lowered worth that too many African-American women carry because they don’t meet the media’s definition of beauty.
True conservatives just want their turn
With the U.S. racing toward a European-style welfare state and terrifying deficit spending, maybe it’s time to try limited government.
Mark a date for immigration bill
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer seems to have lost track of time — or lost his principles.
Passion for words can survive Twitter
Fisticuffs in The Washington Post’s newsroom? Oh, dear. What can it mean?
Honor the vets who have honored us
An older generation flies to see their memorial; a younger generation needs help.
- Schiffer: When spin replaces historical analysis of election results
- Miller: Cancer Care Services eases money burdens from those laden with health woes
- Polman: Obama has Fox News; Truman had Time magazine
- Garnett: Needs council will help those with intellectual, developmental disabilities
- Rubin: America needs a Karzai strategy
- Call for entries for 2010 Community Columnist Panel
- Weinstein: Obama’s taxing solution won’t solve energy dependence problem
- Trying to change lives one breakfast at a time at Fort Worth’s Union Gospel Mission
- Shockey: Lawsuit reform is a key to Texas’ economic stability
- Shane: Don’t blame the computers for wayward airplane
- Schiffer: When spin replaces historical analysis of election results
- Miller: Cancer Care Services eases money burdens from those laden with health woes
- Polman: Obama has Fox News; Truman had Time magazine
- Garnett: Needs council will help those with intellectual, developmental disabilities
- Rubin: America needs a Karzai strategy
- Call for entries for 2010 Community Columnist Panel
- Weinstein: Obama’s taxing solution won’t solve energy dependence problem
- Trying to change lives one breakfast at a time at Fort Worth’s Union Gospel Mission
- Shockey: Lawsuit reform is a key to Texas’ economic stability
- Shane: Don’t blame the computers for wayward airplane
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Former Cliburn head to play role in reviving once-prestigious Tchaikovsky competition
Just a few days before the April telephone call, Richard Rodzinski had read a lengthy profile of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
