Linda Campbell
campbell

| |Thursday, May. 16, 2013

Watching life’s dreams unfold

Admit it: There’ve been times when you were so daunted by the immediate hurdles on the parenthood journey that you couldn’t even imagine what lay ahead.

Those wee hours sterilizing bottles and washing clothes and wishing for just a few hours of sleep uninterrupted by wailing before you had to get up for work. Read more

Bud Kennedy
kennedy

| |Tuesday, May. 21, 2013

A day after Oklahoma’s disaster, some Tea Partiers’ top concern is the IRS

One day after a devastating Oklahoma tornado, some Tea Party groups chose prayer and relief work over a scheduled IRS protest.

But not Watauga’s Boiling Point Tea Party. Read more

Mike Norman
norman

| |Thursday, May. 16, 2013

Legislating in Texas is not all fun and glory

In 10 days, the 2013 regular session of the Texas Legislature will be history.

Some of the most important work of the session is yet to be done. Complex end-of-session deadlines will mix with sleepless nights, but most of it will get done before the end of the day on Memorial Day, May 27. Read more

Bob Ray Sanders
sanders

| Wednesday, May. 22, 2013

Maybe some good things will come from all the “scandals”

The storm clouds of “scandal,” like a breakout of springtime tornadoes in the South and Midwest, seem to be encircling the White House with the president having no “safe room” into which to retreat.

But the more I think about the three major issues that have garnered the most attention from the administration’s enemies (and now some of its “friends”), the ultimate focus of these controversies may lead us to places where few people — especially the conservative right — want to go. Read more