The Trans-Texas Corridor is dead in name, but the gridlock-busting needs it was conceived to address are bigger than ever and still must be tackled.

Straight-ticket voting can sweep good public servants from office, but there is no reason Texans should lose that option.

Senate is on shaky ground in rejecting Roland Burris to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

Electing a more moderate leader as speaker of the Texas House gives hope of a less partisan session of the Legislature.

Three chances to speak if you’re concerned about growing freeway gridlock and poor air quality in North Central Texas.

A major agenda item for the upcoming Texas Legislature should be approval for funding to correct egregious errors by the criminal justice system.

It’s probably too much to ask the Legislature to significantly improve Texas’ healthcare ranking, but here are 10 ideas that deserve serious consideration.

The Armed Forces Bowl belongs in Fort Worth. Find something else to move to Fair Park.

The nominee for Health and Human Services laid out his ideas in a book last spring.

Residents of subdivisions ripe for annexation into Fort Worth shouldn’t feel unfairly singled out — only an estimated 3 percent of Tarrant County residents still live outside cities.

Fort Worth, Arlington and Tarrant County are focused on ending homelessness. It’s a difficult but worthy goal. It works one person at a time.

If the Republican Party wants to win over more minority voters, it shouldn’t look for guidance from Chip Saltsman, a candidate for national GOP chairman.

Whether Tom Craddick gets a fourth term as speaker of the house is up to a handful of people in the House of Representatives.

Unwanted and stray animals strain the budgets of North Texas cities large and small.

For those who put their faith in Bernard Madoff, the alleged architect of a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, it’s been a mad, mad world. But there are lessons to be learned — and relearned — from the debacle.

The plunge in oil and gasoline prices is imperiling numerous projects at a time when the world should be taking far-ranging actions to ensure adequate long-term energy supplies and reduce its carbon footprint.

A woman of the Earth became a voice heard ’round the world and pleased audiences for six decades before her death this week.

Purple, white, Horned Frogs fight: four straight bowl victories.

Improving education in Texas requires improving the home lives of low-income children as well as the resources in their classrooms.

For some, it is a story so familiar that they could repeat it in their holiday-feast-induced sleep — revisited annually in countless church pageants, depicted in front-yard tableaux, even enshrined in an animated speech by that blanket-dragging comic-strip theologian, Linus.

Location and luck — but also prudent government — are among the reasons Southlake makes the list of the most affluent communities of its size.

It’s popular to criticize television content, but three recent programs show the power to do good.

The federal government should provide emergency aid to U.S. automakers, but only with considerable strings attached.

A pilot program in the Northwest school district will begin taking aim at nutrition and childhood obesity early next year.

An Austin foundation deserves praise for recognizing a need of the wrongly convicted, and then offering a grant so something can be done about it.

Among the pressing issues facing the next Legislature, one of the most important and difficult is public school financing.

History will have to judge W. Mark Felt, but his role in uncovering the Watergate scandal was central to driving President Nixon from office.

Jerry McCullough is going to get his chance as superintendent, but there are difficult challenges ahead.

Canceling bonuses is proper, but it may also mean base compensation will need to rise to be competitive.

It’s quite a legacy to be mentioned almost daily — and with reverence — for more than seven decades.