“But now, other cities are looking upstream and trying to address the lack of affordable housing that forces people into the streets in the first place. In fact, recent data reveals unemployment is not the primary driver of housing instability. Rising housing costs are.”
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“The current curriculum describes German Texans as farmers and immigrants but glosses over their history as radical freethinkers and secularists who helped to redefine our state.”
“What made the American project so compelling was its substantial debate around the role of religion, its defiant insistence on not just religious freedom but freedom from religion — the very freedom that German immigrants were searching for when they moved to Texas.”
“Texas students have long learned about religion but recent proposed changes would add Bible passages to required reading lists and not just inflate but sometimes fabricate the role of Christianity in our history.”
“They’d also learn about a ‘completely bogus’ — as one expert put it — group of colonial Christian pastors who served in the Revolutionary War. The changes also have the effect of sanitizing Christianity's role in the transatlantic slave trade, emphasizing instead the global phenomenon of….” #Texas
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Stressed about surviving summer with a job and kids? Try childcaremaxxing, writes editorial board senior writer Leah Binkovitz.
The court ruling reinstating Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby is so flimsy and divorced from reality that it may embolden Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's stance against sports betting, writes Nick Powell.
"As a proud Texan educator, administrator and a mom whose three children are HISD graduates, this entire article filled me with despair," writes Ilona Thomson.
Texas history can't ignore freethinking Germans who opposed slavery | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Texas history can't ignore freethinking Germans who opposed slavery | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Texas history can't ignore freethinking Germans who opposed slavery | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Texas history can't ignore freethinking Germans who opposed slavery | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Whitmire’s new homeless facility matters. So does housing. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Politicians don't want schools to teach the real story of German Texans — radical freethinkers who settled the Hill Country and opposed slavery, writes the editorial board.
Politicians don't want schools to teach the real story of German Texans — radical freethinkers who settled the Hill Country and opposed slavery, writes the editorial board.
Politicians don't want schools to teach the real story of German Texans — radical freethinkers who settled the Hill Country and opposed slavery, writes the editorial board.
Politicians don't want schools to teach the real story of German Texans — radical freethinkers who settled the Hill Country and opposed slavery, writes the editorial board.
Houston’s homeless strategy should not stop at 419 Emancipation, writes Council Member Tiffany D. Thomas.
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Why are we throwing police officers into the center of the chaos to control troubled kids rather than getting to the root of the problem? asks Cindy Rivas Alfaro, Chronicle opinion assistant.
