In an operation being called “Lone Star 2.0,” more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants have been arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety officers this year, according to records obtained by The Texas Tribune. As illegal border crossings plunge, state police are shifting their energies toward ai...

Challenges to democracy all around as crackdowns persist on free expression When a regular citizen walks into a news organization and asks that a letter to the editor not be published due to fear of the heated political climate, there is something wrong. People are self-censoring right here in Texas...

D uring the final week of Hunger Action Month, the public learned the Trump administration announced its decision to scrap the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Household Food Security Report. “These redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger,” according to...

Guest column If you wonder how open government laws affect you, think about these basics: The local taxes we pay. The roads we drive on. Even, sometim...

Central Texas Food Bank to study challenges here in rural Texas Gillespie County is awash in rattlesnakes and alligators, metaphorically speaking. It’...

Hindsights Sportswriters in the 1930s called basketball player Ad Dietzel the “Empire State Building of the Southwest Conference.” International journ...