The Daily News has a long-standing policy against publishing letters and guest columns backing or attacking candidates on Election Day. In every election, just as voters go to the polls, we get last-minute allegations of facts we can’t verify.
A 379 percent increase. It seems almost impossible that the food pantry at St. Vincent’s House in Galveston has increased the amount of groceries it has distributed by 379 percent — from 48,000 pounds of food last year to 230,000 pounds this year.
In good years, the Texas coast gets two days of fall thanksgiving — the one that everybody gets on the fourth Thursday of November and one that’s ours alone on the last day of the month, when hurricane season comes to an official end.
One of the best things about municipal elections in most of Texas is they’re nonpartisan.
This just hurts: For the first time in 65 years, children who call NORAD on Dec. 24 might not get to speak to a living, breathing person to learn the exact location of you-know-who during his Christmas Eve flight around the world.
We’re fortunate this year, more than in any other year in recent memory, to have a day set aside for the purpose of giving thanks.
The iconic Hospice Tree of Lights of the holiday season is back for a 31st year with the lighting this week atop The Daily News building in Galveston.
The year 2020 is one we’d probably like to get over with as soon as possible.
Setting aside his schizophrenic and politically expedient opinions about what local officials should have power to address — those opinions being a contradictory mishmash on issues including plastic bags, trees, taxes, fracking and the coronavirus pandemic, to name a few — Gov. Greg Abbott h…
President Trump has so far been unwilling to concede to Joe Biden, and his latest argument is the voting machines must have been rigged. Where’s the evidence? Strong claims need strong proof, not rumors and innuendo on Twitter.
COVID-19 testing in Galveston County has been a point of pride almost from the start because at one point the county had one of the highest rates of testing in the state, if not the country.
Let’s face it, coyotes are not only common now in neighborhoods across Galveston County — they’re not going anywhere either.
Millions of dollars and many years later, it’s clear Big League Dreams Sports Park has become a nightmare for League City taxpayers. We’re far past the we-told-you-so stage.
Social media blowback against the Clear Creek school board’s selection to replace Superintendent Greg Smith is unfortunate and might have been avoided had elected district leaders followed the spirit and intent of the state’s open government laws.
With Christmas decor starting to appear in the background of TV commercials even when the product or service at issue has nothing to do with the holidays, the holiday season clearly is underway.
Texas needs a functional attorney’s general office. It cannot have that under Ken Paxton.
Like all things 2020, observance of Veterans Day, which is today, is different this year and muted somewhat compared to the past because of COVID-19.
Even among Republicans, most observers well placed enough to know are skeptical that President Donald Trump has evidence to credibly argue, much less to prove, the widespread voter fraud required to have stolen the election, as the White House and a few others are alleging.
We expected this to be somewhat of a dog fight. But we didn’t expect the dogs to still be howling three days after the election. Yet here we are.
One of the most revered and cherished democratic liberties Americans have is the right to vote.
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