Linda Campbell
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| |Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2013

Journalism a bad return on investment? Wait a sec

There are few things as humbling as being invited into someone’s life and home every day through a newspaper.

I didn’t quite get this at first. Read more

Bud Kennedy
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| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013

Fort Worth school election was about new faces, old rivals

Five Fort Worth elected officials campaigned for Dallas’ Domingo Garcia for Congress last year.

Now, four are gone. Read more

Mike Norman
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| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013

Maybe Texas shouldn’t be saving so much money

It’s easy to imagine how much Texas legislators’ eyes widened in early January when Comptroller Susan Combs said the rainy-day fund, the state’s savings account and its primary shield against the effects of a sudden economic downturn or other financial calamity, could be expected to swell to around $11.8 billion by 2015.

The biggest task ahead of them during the regular session set to end on May 27 would be to write a 2014-15 state budget, and right away they had to be tempted to save less and spend more. Read more

Bob Ray Sanders
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| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013

Slavery must never be forgotten

No! I will never forget slavery.

Just as many of you will never forget the oppression — indeed, extermination — of your fore-parents in foreign lands, discrimination in their new country or their constant battle for inclusion and acceptance in a place they came to call home. Read more