Category: Op-ed
Democracy Vouchers Empower Voters, Lessen Big Donor Influence
Out of the 535 members of Congress, only 11 receive a majority of their campaign funds from small...
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Why APD Should Embrace City Council’s Resolution to Prevent Cannabis Testing and Prosecution
Texas opened the door to a host of problems around prosecuting possession of marijuana after legislation passed in the summer of 2019. Austin has its own response to how it think police should handle possession going forward, but not everyone agrees with the City Council’s progressive stance.
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Learning from History: The Case for Unification of the Democratic Party in the Nomination Race
On September 12, 2019, qualifying Democratic presidential candidates hit the stage in Houston,...
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The Gas Pump is No Place for a Child to Play: The case for replacing 12th grade with universal Pre-K
This piece is the first prize winner of the 2019 Baines Report Op-Ed Contest. _ It’s the autumn of...
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The silent victims of “zero tolerance” immigration policies
This piece won second place in the 2019 Baines Report Op-Ed Contest. _ Immigrant children with...
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House Bill 10 Reports on Mental Health Parity
“Now that a precedent has been given national media attention, Texans have greater incentive to be more vigilant when it comes to their rights as patients.”
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Reducing Difficult-to-Eliminate Emissions Is No Easy Task
As of 2018, over one hundred municipalities in the United States have committed to using 100%...
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One year after the Parkland, FL school shooting, reforms are still unfinished.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in which...
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Changing a system of segregation requires more than single-member districts
Minority underrepresentation on Texas school boards is failing thousands of school children each...
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She may be radical, but AOC has not gone far enough on taxes
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a lightning rod for news coverage. She was recently...
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This immigrant Muslim woman says: please don’t unfriend your annoying Republican uncle
On November 9, 2016, I woke up to a bewildering array of text messages. There were the many...
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Khashoggi Killing Adds New Dimension to Yemen War- and New Opportunity for United States
Seventy years ago today, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights that...
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