Are you breathing easier, dear readers? For those of us who have been suffering from the cedar pollen in Austin it may only be rhetorical, but it sure did feel good to watch President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris take their sacred oaths of office...
Opinion
back to archiveOp-Ed: Greater Houston Partnership must denounce those complicit in the coup like Ted Cruz
We are now thirteen days and counting past a politician-inspired coup attempt by a mob of racists at our nation’s Capitol ahead of the certification of the 2020 presidential election by the Electoral College. In those thirteen days, major newspapers, businesses,...
Musings: The Mob Boss in Chief
As I settled in to write this column, I was reading about the latest shameful updates from Pardon Watch 2021. With mere hours left on his presidency, and facing that prospect that he, his family and closest associates may all soon be swept up in a slew of state and...
Musings: Long Division
Dear readers, if you’re anything like me you are forgiven if for a few hours on Wednesday you thought you slipped into an alternate timeline. In remarks opposing the second impeachment (hey, he finally broke a record!) of Donald J Trump, Republican after Republican...
Musings: The Bigger the Lie
The fifth and final season of The Wire, the deeply textured drama created by former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon that finds a way to explore every facet of an ailing city across five epic seasons, begins with a scene born from Baltimore police legend in which a...
Musings: Requiem for Patriotism
What were they thinking? Like many of you, I settled into a chair yesterday afternoon knowing that I was about to watch something that is ordinarily perfunctory and ceremonial perverted into political theater aimed at the lowest common denominator, but nothing could...
Musings: Welcome to ‘21
Welcome to Musings, a new weekly Monday morning opinion column from Texas Signal that will ponder life’s big questions, or at least strive to make sense of the latest in Texas and national politics. The views expressed below belong to the author. Well, dear readers,...
Texas Republicans Must Call Out Donor Steve Hotze Before Someone gets Hurt
Steve Hotze’s website will tell you he is a “Physician, Radio Host, and Best Selling Author” leading a “wellness revolution”. But politicos know him as a controversial QAnon conservative from Houston who wields considerable influence with top Republicans including...
Op-Ed: Doubling down on the fight against human trafficking
There are so many challenges that need our attention right now – from health care, to economic recovery, to the epidemic of gun violence, to education and more. It’s daunting for a freshman legislator to know where to start. I will do my level best to make...