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OPINION: It is Time to Make Texans Healthy Again
By Travis McCormick When you hear the word “crisis,” your mind probably goes to national security concerns.
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OPINION: Raw Milk: Worth the risk? We should get to decide
By Sid Miller Living in Stephenville—the dairy capital of Texas—I’ve got a front-row seat to the heartbeat of our state’s dairy industry.
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OPINION: OUR HEALTH, OUR RESPONSIBILITY: MAKING AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN
By Sid Miller As the Agriculture Commissioner of one of the country's largest farming and ranching states, I am excited that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined President Trump, lending his powerful voice to the MAGA movement.
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OPINION: Social Security Must Be Protected and Election Season is the Perfect Time to Commit To It
By Harvey Hilderbran During an election year – especially a presidential one – people here in Texas and across the nation are paying closer attention to politics than usual.
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OPINION: Texas Supreme Court Opinion Signals Likely Change in State Gun Laws
By Michael Cargill It’s high time the Texas Legislature “re-open the hood” and get to work fixing state statutes governing the carrying of handguns.
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OPINION: US public school enrollment has peaked
By Bill King In the second half of the twentieth century, enrollment in U.S. public schools nearly doubled.
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OPINION: WATER FOR TEXANS, BY TEXANS: THE PATH TO SELF-RELIANCE
By Sid Miller Water is the lifeblood of Texas agriculture, and nowhere is that more critical than in the Rio Grande Valley.
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OPINION: Slowdown and examination needed in process to expand Muleshoe Refuge
By The Texas Dispatch Editorial Board A pending proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge from 6,440 acres tops much as 7 million acres has ignited a firestorm across Texas and New Mexico.
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OPINION: FIGHTING FOR TEXAS FARMLAND: THE BATTLE AT MULESHOE
By Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller Our nation’s agriculture industry is under siege, and the alarm bells are ringing loud and clear in the Texas Panhandle.
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OPINION: Government-imposed electricity costs totaled $20 billion last year
By Bill Peacock Only a decade ago, Texas had the most competitive electricity market in the world, a market that produced reliable, affordable electricity.
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OPINION: Congressman Veasey supports printing medication information, and so should you
By Andrew Vale You may not know it, but the printing industry constitutes a large portion of the US economy, especially the economy of Texas.
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OPINION: Texas’s Cold War: A Call for “Ceasefire”
By Brian Thornton In Texas, the legal and political tension between state lawmakers and its populous, “blue” urban cities and counties is nothing new, but the intensity of this ongoing power struggle has, by any measure, increased in recent history.