Good Morning: Time for iced tea
I can’t believe I missed National Iced Tea Day. Well, I mean I missed writing about it. I have iced tea almost every day. In fact, I can’t really remember the last day in which I didn’t have iced tea.
Opinion
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Committee has a greater purpose than investigating the storming of Capitol
Despite its name, the January 6 committee is not merely investigating the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. It is rightly examining the broader campaign to deny the will of the people. Its first public hearing on Thursday highlighted the terror of a day that led to the deaths of at least seven people and saw 140 police officers injured as a mob, armed with cable ties and stun guns, wielded flagpoles as clubs. Graphic footage and vivid testimony from a Capitol police officer – “I was slipping in people’s blood… It was carnage” – reminded primetime viewers just how shocking and frightening those events were.
24 hours isn’t enough training for armed teachers
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine should veto a bill that would allow teachers to carry guns in schools with minimal training.
Fed should go big to fight inflation
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell proved he could act swiftly and decisively in March 2020 as the coronavirus exploded around the world and large parts of the economy halted. Now, Mr. Powell needs to adopt bold and aggressive tactics again to fight inflation. The time for steady and gradual moves from the Fed is over.
Texas has the tools to make schools safer from mass shootings. Here’s where we should start
There is no shortage of ideas to make Texas schools safer. After the Santa Fe school shooting in 2018, lawmakers produced an extensive plan and later passed 17 laws, with $339 million allocated to implement them.
Good Morning: Some dad jokes to brighten the day
I know some people think that only those with little intellect sit around talking about the weather but when it is this hot, what else are we gonna do? I like to laugh at the things I can’t control in life and goodness knows none of us can control this heat. We can mitigate it with air conditioners and swimming holes, but we can’t control it.
With empathy we can overcome
Tulsa. Uvalde, Chattanooga, Buffalo ... there have been over 18 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2022. The violence never seems to stop and there is no simple answer, but there’s something we can all do about it.
DeWine’s plan is only part of the solution for school security
After last month’s tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, Gov. Mike DeWine likely was doing what most of us were doing — wondering how to stop the massacres in our schools that just keep happening. But being a governor, DeWine was in a position to quickly “do something,” as it were, and announce plans to spend “a significant amount of money” on ensuring every school building in the state is protected.
McConaughey, Abbott illustrate our stark divide on guns
In the 19 days since a gunman massacred 19 children and two schoolteachers in Uvalde, two of Texas’ most prominent figures stepped into the national spotlight to help us make sense of this heinous act. One seemed to sense political opportunity and defended the deadly status quo. The other channeled our collective outrage at the broken politics that blocks even the smallest steps to protect our communities from more gun violence.
Will big fines force Texas to fix its foster care system?
We share Judge Janis Graham Jack’s alarm about sexual abuse of children and other failures. During the latest hearing in Texas’ decade-long foster care lawsuit, federal District Judge Janis Graham Jack again threatened to hold two state agencies in contempt of court because of their continued failure to fix unsafe conditions for foster care children they’re supposed to protect.