The Daily News thanks the community for coming out last weekend for the ninth annual Daily News Press Run.
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I wasn’t thinking about the “Night of Terror” when I cast my first vote at the age of 18.
Yesterday, I got the call that we have been making to thousands of people across Galveston County. I had been exposed to a patient with COVID-19. I called my boss, who told me to go home. I then called the University of Texas Medical Branch to arrange for a test and was given an appointment …
Learning to get out of my own way changed everything.
We never saw this coming. Our lives as we know it have changed in the last few months because of COVID-19, and along the way, we’ve learned some hard but valuable lessons.
Thursday marked the 21st anniversary of the death of Frank Sinatra.
The headline said, “News organizations are largely to blame for it all.”
My father was born Aug. 26, 1904, in Leander, Texas, the first son of a farming family; of a tough Scot mother and a vigorous, entrepreneurial father. He was, I’m told, a bright, ambitious boy who loved learning and dreamed of being a writer, traveling the world, spinning stories about those…
The key to being prepared is having a plan. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, we are starting to see a number of public health measures taking effect, but we have not seen any actions to close or plans for closing critical infrastructure, such as the water supply (which is now and is expec…
Saturday morning, I got up early and walked into an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
Author’s note: This is the fifth article in a series describing nine changes that we would propose to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Tentatively Selected Plan, based upon our Ike Dike-related research over the last decade.
The Daily News is celebrating its 175th birthday this year, and in the hoopla, one name has not been mentioned much — Les Daughtry Sr.
Twenty-nine years ago, a man walked into Little Tikes Daycare in League City and shot two workers in front of dozens of screaming children.
A recent front-page story (“County gives up control of Meals on Wheels,” The Daily News, April 12) detailed an unconstitutional government action and concluded with a foolish statement supporting his unconstitutional vote from Galveston County Judge Mark Henry.
When the city created four tax increment reinvestment zones in 2002, Houstonian Tofigh Shirazi, developer of upscale East End Beachtown, was awarded more benefits than anyone else.
Whenever I get a chance to visit other places and people ask me where I’m from, I’m always proud to say I’m from Galveston. Matter of fact, I say I’m a BOI.
Elderberry is a common native that often shows up in damp soils near streams and helps control erosion.
Feb. 18 marked a giant step in Galveston’s recovery from Hurricane Ike. The final oak was planted in the restoration of the Historic Broadway Esplanades. Disappearing is the memory of forlorn, leafless trees on that roadway, and the emptiness when they came down. Even the image of treeless m…
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