Some well-meaning parents might be putting a little too much stock in standardized test scores as they petition against Clear Creek Independent School District’s attempt to balance student populations by changing boundary lines.
The bad news is, there’s very little left of the coastal prairie that once covered 6 million acres of Texas, including most of the land mass that’s now Galveston County.
The first attempt by tourism-industry managers to raise the profile of museums in Galveston and on the mainland was a remarkable success, drawing thousands more people to such venues last month than on a typical day.
County Commissioner Ken Clark has made his political bones as the most conservative among conservatives, and before now had rarely met a tax he didn’t hate.
Most readers will agree mental illness and easy access to guns do not mix. As a matter of fact, many times when mass shootings occur, authorities are quick to play the mental illness card as an overriding factor in tragic events.
Bolivar Peninsula has always had a detached relationship with Galveston County — geographically and, perhaps, spiritually.
There’s very little comfort for drivers in the recent news that traffic fatalities in Texas dropped a little in 2018 compared to 2017, as the Insurance Council of Texas recently reported.
Add one to the list of existential questions.
What was notable in Gov. Greg Abbott’s State of the State address was what was both in it and, especially, not in it.
The question at hand for people interested in building a new bridge to Pelican Island is whether that can be done in way that makes all the main users happy.
Galveston City Council was right to approve an ordinance setting out new rules meant to govern the interaction between motor vehicles and other travelers — primarily bicyclists but also pedestrians and people on horseback or in horse-drawn conveyances — despite some doubts and worries.
Civil rights groups suing the state of Texas and various county voter registrars are justified in their fear that U.S. citizens will be purged from voter rolls through a dubious list Secretary of State David Whitley recently tossed out.
The Port of Galveston plans this month to hold public meetings to gather public input about a master plan being drafted to guide its expansion and development in coming years.
Congratulations are in order for The League City Garden Club, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary.
There is an interesting contrast to the way — within Galveston County — local officials view their jobs and economic development.
The early bird gets the worm. Only this year, in regards to parking along the seawall before Mardi Gras, the early birds will have to pay a good bit more for stretching the privilege and breaking the rules about how early is too early.
Galveston County Commissioners might be entering into some tricky territory by attempting to abate nuisances and battle crime by amending rules that exist to manage development in flood-prone areas.
In April every year, we honor people in our community who go out of their way to make a difference in the lives of their neighbors.
Two deaths in Galveston last summer involving bicycle riders and automobile drivers prompted community discussion about whether streets can be made safer for cyclists.
It always has been rare to find anything political that everybody should be able to get behind. It might be near impossible these days.
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