BY VERN TURNER While listening to the great Dixie Chicks album, Taking the Long Way, I was reminded of the hysteria surrounding Natalie Maines' offhand...

BY DAVID PERRYMAN Between 1914 and 2012, more than 90% of Oklahoma’s school districts were closed through consolidation. As unused school buildings were salvaged and...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Oh no,” Kasich supporters must be thinking. “Just what we need. A liberal endorsement.” Worry not. I do not like John Kasich because I agree with him. Heavens, no. I disagree with him about almost everything. I do not think he is a liberal. He is hardly my definition of moderate. He […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Butch Hancock, one of Austin’s finest singer-songwriters, grew up in the Texas Panhandle, out among dry-land farmers and strict fundamentalist Christians. Butch once told me that he felt he’d been permanently scarred in his vulnerable teen years by the local culture’s puritanical preaching on sexual propriety: “They told us that sex is […]

BY BOB BEARDEN Black Lives Matter. Yes they do, as all lives should matter. But the problems lie in the fact that 50 years after...