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We are in the midst of a national debate about responsibility for health care. Congress has vowed to give states more responsibility, more flexibility and less money to provide care for those without health insurance. It provides more evidence that … Continue reading →

Like a good steward, the state of Texas has been cautious with debt. Until the mid-1980’s, the state paid cash. Most of the bonds issued were self-supporting—like the veterans land loan programs–and didn’t require taxpayer dollars for payment. That was … Continue reading →

This is a story about what one person has done to change the world. Jim Ketelsen was chairman of the Board of Tenneco Inc., from 1978 to 1992, when he retired. He is a director of several major corporations and … Continue reading →

Recently I was asked to become interim chancellor of the University of Houston System, and I shall do so on September 1. Why did I take the job? The University of Houston has had its share of problems in the … Continue reading →

Recently President Clinton took two steps that affect our trade with Japan. He announced a 100 percent tariff on 13 models of Japanese luxury cars, effectively banning imports of those popular vehicles. And he vetoed the budget-cutting bill which contained … Continue reading →

The Houston Post is dead. Newspapers are special institutions. the death of a newspaper is not like the death of a grocery store or a bank or a movie theater. However noble grocery stores are, they do not entertain, enrage … Continue reading →

“Affirmative action” seems to be a bad word these days. Its opponents say it’s unfair, that it excludes the qualified in favor of the less qualified, that it is discrimination in reverse. The complaints center around hirings, promotions, and college … Continue reading →

Hooray for the new Congress. They promised to take government off our back, and they’ve put it in our living room. They promised to free us from regulation, and they’ve concocted one that can deprive some unwitting computer nerds of … Continue reading →

Whatever television touches it destroys–the President, the Congress and now the courts, author and journalist Richard Reeves remarked recently after a lecture at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He was referring, of course, to the national addiction, … Continue reading →

It is the age of the knowledge worker. Our high speed electronically connected information age economy demands new skills. Today’s jobs require more formal education, the ability to acquire and apply theoretical and analytical knowledge and a habit of continuous … Continue reading →