Author: Will McDaniel

EDITORIAL At this year’s West Texas Legislative Summit, there’s plenty to be optimistic about when looking into the economic future of the region: namely, the Iran war, and data centers. Let me clarify: the panelist in question — Jesse Thompson, a senior economist from the Dallas Federal Reserve — only referenced “the current geopolitical situation” — a term I am now hearing more and more often to refer to a shooting war that’s killed 18 American soldiers, according to the Pentagon. A war in which 3,600 Iranians have been killed as well, according to the UN. He mentioned the “situation”…

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HIGHER ED: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT This article is the first part of a series exploring the changes in higher education in Texas over the last several years. The war over free classroom discussion in Texas has reached its first major battle: a challenge by the American Association of University Professors. The suit claims AAUP members employed throughout the Texas Tech University System have been the victims of an unconstitutional overreach by the board of regents, specifically through the memoranda of Chancellor Brandon Creighton, through the implementation of a controversial course and curriculum review by the system, which began…

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