A top legislative budget negotiator last week said rank-and-file legislators will very soon have to come to terms with a state budget environment unlike anything many have ever seen before.

Every parking fee proposal incites negative feedback. While the DNR isn’t the worst-run state agency, it would unquestionably be in better shape with additional revenue.

Some of the greatest Western artists in American history were not born in the West. One example is Frank Reaugh, an Illinois native whose paintings are found in collections across Texas today.