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Why unions are important today

When I was in junior high school, my dad often asked me to translate little scraps of paper that he got from his co-workers at the battery recycling plant. He was a union steward there, and through th...

Higher education moving forward

This September marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Texas at Brownsville and a new beginning for UTB now launched on its path to becoming an autonomous four-year univer...

Zero benefit: Punishment study should bring a new look at school discipline

Many parents probably were alarmed at the results of a study released Tuesday that reports nearly 60 percent of all Texas public school students have received punishment ranging from in-school suspens...

More games: Politicians draw new lines on immigration for election

With so many problems facing our government, it appears that many politicians plan to base campaigns on immigration, just as they have for the past 12 years. That’s unfortunate for those of us ...

Bitter tea

The tea party is dead. The populist movement that called for smaller government, for all intents and purposes, has ceased to exist as a viable, autonomous entity; it’s been swallowed up by thos...

Off keys

It’s becoming harder than ever to see public officials during regular meetings, since they often are hidden behind laptop computers or crouched over mobile phones, hammering away at the keys. T...

Memories across a page

In navigating through a human mind, a Winter Texan once told me she was as likely to recall a memory from 10 years ago as something that happened yesterday. As the years pass, the memories piling up ...

Bad elections and payback

Florida had the hanging chads of 2000 that were crucial in deciding the outcome of a presidential election. Brownsville has the missing tally sheet at Burns Elementary School that has become central ...

Last Chance Deer

 For deer hunters in South Texas, Jan. 19 to Feb. 1 is the last window of opportunity to put venison in the freezer, and that venison cannot be wearing antlers. The "late antlerless and spike"...

What’s with Social Security?

When shortly after I arrived on these shores I got my first job as an usher in a cinema in Philadelphia, back in the fall of 1956, I asked about the deduction from my paycheck that went to social secu...

Politicians and morality

While I see strong merits to an ultraminimal government idea, whereby the state has no other function than to protect the rights of the citizens from criminals and foreign aggressors, I do not share t...

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