Opinion

The passage of the state’s first voucher program means homeschool families in Texas will soon be eligible for up to $2,000 to use toward educational costs such as tutoring or curriculum. From 500,000 to 600,000 Texas children are being homeschooled — between 8% and 10% of all school-aged children, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott needs a loud round of applause for his Sunday veto of Senate Bill 3, which would have banned any and all THC-related products, including delta-8 and 9, currently being sold across the state.

Note: The following edit was written before the ceasefire was announced Tuesday morning. Whether it holds or not is still a big question mark. That still doesn’t detract from what a risky move this was on the part of the president. The U.S. was not in immediate danger from Iran, but Trump still went and bombed a sovereign country without bothering to run it by Congress. Just because he can? In the 2002/ 2003 run-up to the Iraq War, Fox’s Sean Hannity, who makes approximately $20 million per year, had this to say: “We’re going to go in and we’re going to liberate this country in a few weeks, and it’s going to be over very quickly. And what I’m going to tell you here is, you’re going to find, I predict, mass graves. We’re going to open up those… gulags and those prisons, and you’re going to hear stories of rape and torture and misery, and then we’re going to find all of the weapons of mass destruction.”