Linda P. Campbell thought her best job ever was covering the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. — until she took up opinion writing for the Star-Telegram in 2000. She writes about legal issues, education, families and myriad other topics. And she volunteers as a baseball-soccer mom in her other fulltime job.

E-mail: lcampbell@star-telegram.com

The case for the Voting Rights Act isn't made with exaggerations

| |Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013

Sure, it doesn't make sense that a young woman can use a student ID card to get federal airport security approval to board a flight but not to get Texas poll worker approval to cast a ballot.Read more

Weaving the fabric of an American story

| |Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013

Personal history helps color a person's views on immigration.Read more

Texas overreaches again on voting right

| |Wednesday, Feb. 06, 2013

To hear state Attorney General Greg Abbott tell it, the U.S. Supreme Court should strike down part of the federal Voting Rights Act in an Alabama case because the Justice Department bullied Texas over its voter ID law.Read more

A Fort Worth food park grows where a strip club faltered

| |Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013

A scenic riverfront location lands a venture with a natural fit.Read more

Livestrong's about cancer, not about Lance

| |Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013

The yellow wristband is about hating the disease.Read more