We regret the error.The Cruz family’s Christmas card. Wind and solar provided close to 40 percent of energy to the grid at one point in time but not during the entire summer. Where Arizona ranks high is among the privatization proponents based on those initiatives, not on results.Ĭorrection: The editorial in the Tuesday paper mischaracterized how much power wind and solar energy supplied to the grid during a summer heat wave. He ignores that almost all unionized states outrank the right-to-work states (where mandatory union participation is illegal) on educational outcomes. Will praised Arizona's rapid privatization of education and bashed unions opposing “parental choice.” All that might be impressive if one ignores that Arizona has among the lowest state rankings for education, placed 45th-50th by most reporting agencies, including being ranked 46th by the most reliable and oft-cited U.S. George Will's praise of Arizona's Governor Ducey centered on his education policy. Hopefully you have the courage to cover them and we, as Texans, have the will to pass them. As we head into the next legislative session, bipartisan co-sponsors will be introducing legislation to implement RCV for military voters, for special elections and for local municipalities to opt into its use for their elections. This is how voters selected Glenn Youngkin in Virginia and his broader appeal is what drove his subsequent general election victory. Ranked-choice voting (RCV) would allow the majority of the electorate to clearly specify who they actually want. A majority of Republicans would like someone else, but because there is no singularly clear alternative, having the largest plurality compels him to victory. 8): George Will makes a compelling case for Ducey that I'll be sure to remember when the primary rolls around, but he misses the fact that a multitude of alternatives is how Trump won in 2016. Regarding “Opinion: Why Ducey would make a great alternative to Trump,” (Dec. What is it about the idea of a public library that League City councilmembers Justin Hicks and Andy Mann don't understand? If they are concerned about the library's content and children, I suggest they become acquainted with another idea: parental supervision. Choose something with a healthier message for kids. So don’t purchase a middle-school book with crude illustrations of private parts. Every librarian and book selection committee has to pick and choose which books to purchase. There are thousands of them, hundreds published every year. The problem is easy to solve: no library can stock every young adult or children’s book that’s published. There’s no need for elected leaders at the state or city level to get involved in the issue of controversial books in school or city libraries. These council members are determining the definition of “obscene.” Is it not up to the individual to make that determination? Or maybe the parents in League City. Pico, the Supreme Court held that officials cannot pull books off school library shelves merely because they disagree with the ideas in these books. In the 1982 Board of Education, Island Tree Union Free School District v. The First Amendment of our Constitution prohibits these actions. 6): It is with a little amusement and some trepidation that I read the article concerning the City Council of League City taking it upon themselves to decide what is “obscene” and deciding what books can be placed in the “Public Library.” This reeks of censorship by public officials and comes close to the book burning of the 1940s. Regarding “ League City mulls removing books with 'obscenity', as school book bans spill into public libraries,” (Dec.
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