It’s Easter, as everyone knows, but it’s also San Jacinto Day, so don’t forget to fly your Texas flags.
Port of Galveston leaders should make it abundantly clear to Carnival Cruise Line they expect a corporate partner, with which it does substantial business, to be a responsible environmental steward. Port leaders should insist on action by the cruise line, not more empty public relations babble.
Killing the seawall parking program would saddle taxpayers with a substantial new annual expense.
Vision is nice, but Hitchcock’s efforts to create a pretty city center is a giant leap from recently teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and laying off almost 20 percent of its police force. And it’s a bigger leap when key city leaders have eroded public trust.
Beginning with early voting on Monday, League City residents will begin casting ballots on the city's first bond proposition in almost 30 years. Election Day is May 4.
Many readers may not know it, but each year The Daily News awards thousands of dollars to high school seniors as they head off to college or other career development avenues.
Texas lawmakers should approve House Bill 2763, which is the product of two years of local negotiation and would correct long-standing problems of unfunded liabilities and lopsided governance in the Galveston’s police pension plan.
A lawmaker once observed that putting together a budget — local, state or federal — that deals mainly with public funds is akin to putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
The Texas Racing Commission should improve its definition of what constitutes a trend when it comes to deaths and injuries of greyhounds at the tracks it regulates.
Something remarkable happened Tuesday evening inside the walls of the historic Showboat Pavilion in Texas City.
Before Wednesday of last week, it would have been hard to imagine how to make a plan to privatize the county’s legal representation look worse than it did just on its face.
The conflict between Port of Galveston Director Rodger Rees and a couple of members of the Wharves Board of Trustees, which governs the public docks, indicate a need for open-government training.
It has been feeling a lot like 2011 on the island since the announcement last month that federal officials had empowered and, it seems, are encouraging Galveston Housing Authority to pursue mixed-income developments to replace subsidized housing demolished after Hurricane Ike.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump warned he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs to the U.S.
Almost $3 million is no small sum, but the bridge amounts to more than 400 feet of unused pedestrian walkway — it's a symbol of civic paralysis.
If anyone wants to see the disaster dockless scooter and bike programs might look like on the streets of Galveston need only to walk the streets Austin.
Not every issue in Galveston has to be a knife fight. It’s time for top management and boards of the city, Park Board of Trustees and the Port of Galveston to have collegial discussions about policies and plans that affect pretty much everyone living and doing business on the island, particu…
The two or three commissioners pushing to replace the county legal department with eight private law firms owe taxpayers a much more detailed explanation of their rationale, among a couple of other things, than has been offered so far.
The devil, as they say, is in the details. Senate Bill 891 by Sen. Joan Huffman on court administration is what they call an omnibus bill, that is a catch-all involving prosecutors’ offices and court administration policies.
It’s a sad reality that most residents and stakeholders find issues of neighborhood or community planning urgent when they’re responding to a problem.
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