David Muto

Johnson’s keen sense of social justice is a sign that if he were alive today, he’d view the gay marriage fight in much the same way he saw civil rights in the 1960s, LBJ Presidential Library Director Mark K. Updegrove writes in TribTalk.

Local control and liberty are important governing principles, but when the two are in conflict, liberty should always prevail, state Rep. Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving, writes in TribTalk.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is in Houston this week to speak at an oil and gas summit, writes that “drill, baby, drill” is more than just a political slogan — it’s a strategy that’s working for America.

“I was deeply saddened that the film does not convey the message of hope that the historical Selma does,” writes Luci Baines Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In August, defense attorney Dick DeGuerin and Glenn W. Smith, director of the Progress Texas PAC, faced off in TribTalk over whether the indictment of Rick Perry matters.

Deirdre Delisi, a former Texas Transportation Commission chairwoman; Julie Linn, the president of Texans for Education Reform; and Bill Hammond, the CEO of the Texas Association of Business, lay out their hopes and expectations for this year’s legislative session.

University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall lays out his vision for higher education in 2015, and state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, weighs in on the contracting controversy dogging the state’s health and human services agency.

Treating water as a commodity neglects fundamental differences between the two resources that we ignore at our own peril, Sharlene Leurig, the water program director at Ceres, writes in TribTalk.

Attending college in Texas shouldn’t be a luxury afforded only to the wealthy or those willing to take on massive student loan debt, but that’s what’s happened in our state since we deregulated tuition, writes state Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown.