Censorship has been much in the news lately as most major digital communication companies, Facebook, Twitter and Google to name a few, took steps to ban what their management teams considered to be outside the bounds of acceptable speech.
When Vice President Kamala Harris took the oath Wednesday to become America’s second in command, women and little girls all over the country — and the world, for that matter — witnessed history that has been a long time coming.
Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris left the stage in Washington, D.C., after an inauguration marked by the absence of violence and strife many had feared.
Have you met Scoop? He’s the Daily News’ jaunty Turtle About Town who stands proudly outside of our office, 8522 Teichman Road in Galveston, just as you drive over the causeway from the mainland.
A key lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is remote learning has been an abject failure for public schools. That has been obvious for months as even strong students fail, many of the most vulnerable are MIA and burned-out parents struggle to help their children.
America has been observing and celebrating, in most states, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for 26 years.
Young Black men are dying in Galveston County. Victims of gun violence and gang warfare. Families are broken, mourning. Residents are afraid.
The frustration among Galveston County residents about difficulty in getting COVID-19 vaccines is understandable, but not so much reasonable.
January is National Blood Donor Month. We encourage anyone who is able to donate to do so — and bring a friend with you to donate, as well. And keep doing it — you can give blood every eight weeks.
For more than two decades, the Texas Legislature has received proposed legislation that would allow casino gambling in the state, and the idea has been turned down every time. The proposal once again has been offered.
Congratulations to Sean Skipworth, who Friday became mayor of Dickinson, and to Jennifer Lawrence who didn’t, despite having run a strong campaign for the office.
After a full day of chaos at the Capitol on Wednesday, the sun came up Thursday morning. It’s resilient like that. That’s a trait it shares with American democracy, which on Wednesday was stretched and tested and whipped around in the wind like an ideological Category 5 blowing through Washington.
Some of us have been around long enough to have witnessed legitimate protest and to have at least seen images of coups, attempted coups and brainless mobs acting in service of nothing much but chaos.
It bears repeating: This isn’t over. Despite the fact that vaccines are being administered around the world and we’ve already moved beyond the first tier of eligibility, the number of COVID cases is still rising around that very same world.
One of the biggest battles in the war against COVID-19 probably won’t be against the virus but against a rising skepticism about science in general and vaccines in particular that predates the pandemic by years.
2020 sure tested our mettle. It brought out the best in many of us and, let’s say, the less-than-best in others.
If you plan to ring in the new year with a few drinks and haven’t planned how you’ll get around without driving yourself, take a few minutes to do that today.
Odds are, if you’re reading this newspaper, you’re already a fan of Galveston County. The mix of breathtaking nature, diverse cultures, unique people, powerful industry and downright good-hearted community is second to none. I’d challenge you to find a comparable small stretch of land (only …
Americans love to celebrate holidays such as the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve with fireworks. And in the case of New Year’s Eve, even practice a dangerous tradition — celebratory gunfire.
A key message is missing in government and health guidelines to combat COVID-19 in the United States. Wear a mask, wash your hands, keep your distance, close your business, stay home — such is the advice and orders governments have doled out since the early days of the pandemic. But few elec…
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