Linda Campbell
campbell

| |Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009

Educating students shouldn’t take a back seat to research

The dueling news releases emanating these days from the Tier One aspirers look impressive, daunting even:

A University of Texas at Arlington professor got a $281,547 four-year National Science Foundation grant for a research project called "NanoDomain Structure and Multifunctional Properties of Polymer Derived Ceramics." Read more

Steve Jacob

| |Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009

Some pharmaceutical companies manufacture their own praise

The pharmaceutical industry is attempting to deflect accusations about what many see as its role in the corruption of science.

The trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which also represents biotechnology companies, issued guidelines in late September targeting some of the industry’s more reprehensible pseudo-scientific practices. Read more

Bud Kennedy

| |Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

Heroic officer says policewoman at Fort Hood 'erased a lot of prejudice'

Texas’ first modern-day Latino hero emerged on a bloody weekday in the summer of ’66.

Austin police officer Ray Martinez kicked open a door atop the University of Texas Tower in Austin. Then he and fellow officers ended the sniper spree of Charles Whitman. Read more

J.R. Labbe
labbe

| |Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

Seeking sound arguments and no exclamation points. Please!

Write a 600-word column with strong opinion on a local issue.

How hard can it be? Read more

Mike Norman
norman

| |Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009

Education agency head shouldn’t match muscles with the Texas Legislature

Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott’s mouth might have been moving faster than his mind Tuesday in a talk to the Greater Austin Area Chamber of Commerce.

Scott said he is "lifting the cap" on the number of open-enrollment charter schools authorized to operate in Texas. He wants to hand out more charters than the cap allows. Read more

Bob Ray Sanders

| Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

Grand Prairie man is a victim of flawed Texas Lottery system

When the Texas Lottery Commission last summer announced Pankaj Joshi of Euless as the state’s newest millionaire, the formal press release noted:

"Joshi requested minimal publicity." Read more