Robert Inks

Public employees are paid with hard-earned tax dollars, and we should expect those dollars to lead to actual work while an employee is on the public clock, writes Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound.

With the threat of Zika looming in Texas, preventive health care for women has never been more important. Fortunately, there are concrete steps the state can take to get in front of Zika and limit its impact, writes Dr. Janet Realini of the Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition.

A 4 percent budget cut may not seem like much to the casual observer, but for a state that already underinvests in education and health care, it represents potentially significant cuts to services that help Texans compete and succeed, writes Eva DeLuna Castro of the Center for Public Policy Priorities.

Immigrants like UT-Austin professor Juan Miró continue to see opportunity in the inspiring words of the Declaration of Independence. But, he writes, those same words can also represent a big obstacle toward making the United States a welcoming country.

For Texas families to continue flourishing under a responsible model of no personal income tax and relatively low taxes overall, government spending must be restrained, write Vance Ginn and Owen Smitherman of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

While the news stories and photos of people inflicted with Vibrio vulnificus are certainly chilling, the chance of infection is extraordinarily low, writes Larry McKinney of Texas A&M Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute.

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down key provisions of House Bill 2 doesn’t eliminate the burdens women carry in trying to access legal abortion in Texas, but it does considerably lighten the load, writes Andrea Ferrigno, corporate vice president of Whole Woman’s Health.

The Texas Supreme Court unanimously held that owners of property illegally seized by the authorities are not subject to the constitutional protections afforded in criminal procedure. Even worse, writes Derek Cohen of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, this ruling was entirely correct.

Center for Public Policy Priorities analyst Chandra Kring Villanueva shares the story of her education, which began with her passing the GED.

A gaffe-prone multimillionaire runs a vitriolic, divisive campaign against a veteran female politician. Trump for president in 2016? Try Clayton “Claytie” Williams for Texas governor in 1990, writes Brandon Rottinghaus of the University of Houston.