Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick prefers to operate without scrutiny.
With the legislative session underway in Austin, voters can expect lawmakers to bring forward a number of regularly debated topics. Property tax reform, school funding and solutions to the crisis on the Texas-Mexico border are high-profile, important issues that resonate well with voters.
Galveston police and federal narcotics agents did the right thing Tuesday by going loud with news of an arrest in connection with a pair of fentanyl-induced deaths that occurred on Christmas Day.
The Daily News on Monday convened a newly configured editorial board meant to broaden and deepen both the newspaper’s opinion and news content.
Good health outcomes are forged by access to care.
The first instinct for a lot of us probably would be to get angry about people surrendering animals to shelters because of economic hardship.
In 2020, President Donald Trump and Melania Trump paid no federal income taxes by claiming millions in dubious deductions and carrying over losses from previous years.
Odds are, if you’re reading this newspaper, you already are 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…
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.
Nothing has been proven, and won’t be probably for weeks, but there’s enough reason already to worry that two relatively young men who died an hour or so apart in Galveston on Christmas Day had encountered cocaine laced with fentanyl.
Capital murder cases of two mentally ill killers had much different outcomes.
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Congress had an opportunity this year to take an important step to support stronger communities, better government and civil discourse.
Interviews a Daily News reporter conducted with several of Galveston’s homeless this week drove home a point that had been perhaps too obvious to see with full clarity, at least for us.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky recently pleaded with Congress for more money for COVID. How about asking the Teamsters union to share some of its $36 billion pension bailout that President Biden announced?
With the holiday shopping days winding down, there is one gifting option you may want to consider: giving to a nonprofit in the name of someone else.
Five years after the federal government declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency, and more than two years since fentanyl deaths began skyrocketing in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott has at last decided to throw his considerable political weight behind a simple measure to help sa…
The iconic Hospice Tree of Lights of the holiday season is back for a 33rd year with the lighting Thursday atop The Daily News building in Galveston.
When President Biden visited a microchip factory under construction in Arizona on Tuesday, it might have looked like a political victory lap: The factory will bring $12 billion and thousands of jobs to an important swing state that just elected a Democratic governor and senator.
Today, 81 years after the fact, the words Pearl Harbor mean something profound to Americans. For a few, the words and the date linked to them mark personal lines of demarcation; the point at which their lives changed forever.
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