A year ago, Galveston officials, tired of the accidents in front of the San Luis Resort and Holiday Inn in the 5200 block of Seawall Boulevard, installed crosswalks.
Federal lawmakers face a July 31 deadline to either reauthorize or reform the National Flood Insurance Program, which is vitally important to people living and doing business along the coast.
League City council should approve a long-planned hike and bike trail along FM 518, despite opposition from some residents of a nearby subdivision who fear the trail would attract crime.
We agree Dickinson should apply for a grant to study the city’s watershed with the goal to reduce the effects of flooding from Dickinson Bayou.
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The recent birthday celebration for a 94-year-old Dickinson resident was one worth reflecting upon.
The city of Galveston’s attempts to address the serious shortage of middle-income housing are noble. But the city should use public resources cautiously — if at all — in trying to solve a problem in which the private market can’t make the math work.
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Whiskers, fluffy tails and pink noses. Plenty of which residents will encounter at shelters in the county right now. One shelter in particular, the Galveston County Animal Resource Center, recently wrapped up a weekend of reduced adoption fees.
Last week, President Donald Trump announced, by executive order, that he was rescinding the executive directive of former President Barack Obama to colleges and universities on how they can use race in admissions decisions to promote diversity.
The video is enough to give even a noncyclist pause. On Friday, The Daily News examined the subject of cyclists on the roads of Galveston County. The newspaper posted a link to a disturbing video captured by a cyclist while on FM 3005, which shows very clearly part of the problem.
City leaders in Friendswood are right in moving to end a long practice of not charging residents for ambulance rides and emergency medical care.
We believe the constant ordering of the Stars and Stripes to half-staff is eroding the value of the symbol, as well as creating a growing insensitively to the recognition it is intended to convey.
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The Fourth of July in Galveston County is synonymous with fireworks, barbecues, beaches, boats and parades. The fact that it’s a celebration of the USA makes it all the more enjoyable. However, it’s also a holiday when carelessness, inattention and, frequently, alcohol cause more accidents t…
Most people probably wouldn’t consider themselves trashy. Yet, they leave evidence to the contrary across beaches and parks every day.
Clear Lake area mayors took a good first step this week when they gathered for a brainstorming session.
Some of the best post-Harvey news we’ve reported so far was on the front page Thursday and marked the return of the well-respected M.I. Lewis Social Service Center.
Voters in College of the Mainland’s jurisdiction should support the bond proposition trustees have called for a November referendum.
Moody Early Childhood Center is seeking to become an in-district charter school under a new state law, a status that could bring more funding to the quickly expanding program.
Santa Fe public school officials suffered a trauma unimaginable to most of us when a student on May 18 shot and killed 10 people and wounded about a dozen others at the district’s high school. And they suffered a different kind of shock when reporters from local, national and international o…
Although they took much longer than they should have, Hitchcock and Galveston officials did the right thing in following through with investigations of bullying claims lodged against their police officers.
It may not be immediately apparent what bicycle safety and roadway guardrail damage have to do with each other, but we argue the two subjects are closely related.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation report released this week on active shooting incidents, such as the one at Santa Fe High School last month, had more than a few interesting points.
With trade tariff news heating up, we wanted to update Daily News readers on the recently instituted tariffs on Canadian newsprint. We also wanted to offer a public thanks to local elected officials and community organizations who are stepping up to help turn around this misguided interpreta…
Water conservation seems to always be a hard sell among some consumers of the essential stuff, and it’s an extremely hard sell at times like these when large parts of the county still are recovering from an epic flood and it’s raining pretty hard.
Juneteenth is a very important day. From parades to golf tournaments, from picnics to prayer breakfasts and the traditional reading of General Order No. 3 at Aston Villa in Galveston, most county residents know a least something about the significance of June 19.
The inventory of items sheriff’s deputies seized during two raids in May on so-called game rooms suspected of being illegal gambling dens is interesting for what’s not listed.
You might reasonably ask what the doings in Paint Rock, a small town in northeast Alabama, could possibly have to do with anything anywhere else.
It’s fair to ask, as many people are, what’s taking the cities of Galveston and Hitchcock so long to investigate a bullying complaint involving their police departments.
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The meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un this week was nothing short of historic. No matter what side of the political spectrum you may fall on, the fact that the two leaders walked across a stage and shook hands is remarkable.
The state’s Supreme Court added a new wrinkle to debate about how, even whether, short-term rentals can be regulated.
Galveston City Council members will face a hard decision later this month if, as expected, they consider banning new duplexes and multifamily homes in single-family residential zoned districts and historic districts such as the East End, Silk Stocking and Lost Bayou.
La Marque officials have hit on a hot topic by contemplating an ordinance meant to crack down on slumlords by strengthening rules on residential rental units.
Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston is sometimes taken for granted. Part of the organization spends its time raising money so others in the organization can heal child burn victims.
Both the elected leaders and hired staff at Galveston County have a lot of explaining to do about the disappearance of more than $500,000 that was supposed to pay a contractor for road repairs but apparently was stolen through an amazingly simple scam.
The death of a Galveston Island Beach Patrol lifeguard while cycling along 69th Street is both a tragedy and a reminder of the inherent dangers of the mixing of bicycles and cars on congested roadways.
On this morning 74 years ago as dawn was breaking in Europe, members of what journalist Tom Brokaw would call The Greatest Generation boarded landing craft off the coast of France.
For the fourth year, Galveston residents have an opportunity to hear directly from two of the city’s key municipal leaders during a State of the City event.
It’s sad that after every tragedy, there is a simple truth — scam artists will come scurrying out of the woodwork.
Some things about summer along the Gulf Coast are inevitable, and some things just seem to be but don’t have to happen.
Although we hear all the time about people who can’t feed themselves and their children or live in worry about where the next meal will come from, hunger is a hard concept for those of us with plenty to grasp.
We want to commend the Santa Fe students and teachers who returned to classrooms Tuesday. If you ever wanted to see courage in action, this was it.
First, we apologize for not providing more notice about the change that began Monday in comics and puzzles published on weekdays and Saturdays. We had planned a lot of hoopla about the change during the week leading up to May 28, but bad news intervened.
At 3 p.m. today, take a moment from watching the ball game, barbecue or other Memorial Day activities with friends and family for a moment of remembrance of those who died in U.S. military service.
The shooting May 18 at Santa Fe High School, during which 10 people were killed and even more wounded, poses problems for people pushing extreme single-solution arguments about how to prevent such mass killings.
On Wednesday, NFL team owners approved language to make players on the field stand during the national anthem. And as expected, the NFL Players Association is throwing a flag on the play.
Years of tenacious lobbying by local people, celebrities and elected officials paid off Thursday when President Donald Trump signed a pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion and one of Galveston’s most famous sons.
In the minds of many students, teachers and parents, fear of another school shooting is the new norm.
We don’t suggest that putting metal detectors in all schools would prevent all mass killings. We certainly don’t suggest it’s the only security measure area school districts should consider in the aftermath of a shooting at Santa Fe High School that left 10 dead and many others wounded.
With Friday’s deadly school shooting, Santa Fe, Texas, is at the center of the media universe. And by extension, so is Galveston County and the state of Texas. This is our moment to help others — both in the past and future — on how to best deal with such a tragic and human crisis.
Specious arguments, it seems, are a natural byproduct of terrible events such as the shooting Friday at Santa Fe High School in which eight children and two adults were shot dead and more than a dozen others were wounded.
Following Friday’s school shooting at Santa Fe High School, most of us in Galveston County are feeling mad, hurt, confused and noticeably numb. Professionals will say this is normal. But what is not normal is the reason for the why.
It should have been just another beautiful spring day on the Texas coast. It should have been a day for high school students and their teachers to think about the coming summer break. All the dread should have been about final exams, the outcome of those state-mandated tests that had seemed …
Streamlining government, while a nice catch-phrase that many people get attached to, can be a tricky thing.
“I like beer.” — Tom T. Hall
It was good news that about 7 million people visited the island in 2017, compared to about 6.4 million in 2016. Those visits came despite Hurricane Harvey in the fall of last year.
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