Local Columnists

Late last month, after Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley renewed the county mask order and told me he hoped he’d be in a position to lift it by July 4...

With apologies to the man who helped us and millions around the world to learn to read: Should a look in a book be cause for a hook? The answer is yes...

A crisis is a terrible thing to create. This, nonetheless, is what President Joe Biden has done at the southern border. His rhetoric during the campai...

The decisions (or the lack thereof) that made Texas’ power grid vulnerable to the calamitous winter storm that left millions without heat and water ar...

They can’t live with him, and they can’t live without him. That about sums up the Republican Party’s Donald Trump problem. After losing a presidential...

I have had a cat in or around my house since the late 1970s. Except for brief periods, feline companions have been a big part of my life and I dare sa...

It speaks volumes about New York’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics that it can’t get to the bottom of an ethical breach in its own ranks. The allega...

He walked out on the stage and the crowd was cheering, the music was blasting “I’m proud to be an American,” and former President Donald Trump did loo...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo quickly emerged as one of the nation’s heroes. Pitching himself as the antithesis to the ...

The last time that we wrote about a president being inaugurated on March 4, it was in 1933: “Frank Roosevelt takes office today; and Mr. Roosevelt ent...

NEW YORK — Now Chris Cuomo can’t comment on his brother? How things have changed. Said brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is embroiled in the biggest scandal...

During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump’s border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations ...

When Joe Biden was running for president, he was asked if — unlike then-President Donald Trump — he would punish senior Saudi leaders for the 2018 mur...

There are a hundred things I could tell you about my late mother that are more important than the disease that caught her in its grip the last few yea...

Former President Barack Obama promised to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay nearly 12 years ago, but the notorious facility that wil...

ALBANY (TNS) — As it happens, I spent an hour last week taking the sexual harassment training that Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated for employees in New Yor...

What any religious tradition ascribes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress.” New York Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Co...

After months of reckless lies about election integrity culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a national reckoning is in order. U....