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…
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.
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.
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.
Today’s presidential election will likely play out as one of the most consequential in most Daily News readers’ memories. No matter who you choose at the top of the ballot, our nation will move in a historically significant direction.
Texas City resident Patricia Washington had the right response to an intimidating robocall meant to keep her from voting — she got mad and resolved to exercise her sacrosanct right and duty as a U.S. citizen to cast a ballot.
Gov. Greg Abbott should either enforce his COVID-19 mask order or rescind it. Likewise, everybody who has been fined for not complying with any of Abbott’s pandemic orders deserves a refund.
The Daily News has a long-standing policy against publishing letters and guest columns backing candidates on Election Day.
Galveston County Judge Mark Henry last week signed off on an executive order requiring poll workers to allow residents to vote without wearing masks. Any poll worker who tries to stop a bare-faced voter from casting a ballot risks a $1,000 fine, according to Henry’s order.
Halloween 2020 is gearing up to be scarier than in years past because of the COVID-19 pandemic that’s still lurking in our communities.
Get ready to get outside and breathe in some fresh air — The Daily News 2020 Press Run is a go.
One of the most interesting and least reported items of COVID-19 news broke quietly last week when the World Health Organization disclosed its “best estimate” of how many people on Earth had been infected so far in the pandemic.
Daily News readers have been demanding, and deserving, an explanation about why the newspaper stopped publishing information about COVID-19 in graphical form as it had done daily since March.
The Galveston Police Department is warning residents about a string of attempted kidnappings of women on the island.
Beginning today, voters will encounter many hard decisions up and down long ballots necessary for the unprecedented Nov. 3 general election.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday he was giving the OK for bars to open next week, with some stipulations.
President Trump’s tweet Monday — “Don’t be afraid of Covid” — has invited more criticism that he’s again downplaying the virus. Trump doesn’t do nuance, and he and his team have often acted recklessly, most prominently at the Rose Garden ceremony announcing Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination.
We should take the news that President Donald Trump has contracted COVID-19 for what it is: Trump is among more than 7 million confirmed U.S. cases.
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