Opinion

Vanishing ranchland From a story in Sunday’s San Antonio Express-News: “Thousands of single-family homes and other development are set to rise on nearly 2,000 acres of ranchland in Southeast San Antonio … .” While I’ve always been an advocate for the South Side, seeing how quickly all available ranchland and open spaces are being consumed makes me sad. The once […]

Historical analogies rarely carry much weight, especially in a time when so much about politics has changed so rapidly. To compare what is happening in 2024 to events that occurred over half a century earlier hardly seems useful. It mostly isn’t. And yet the election of 1968, whose outcome proved disastrous for America and the world, looms over the coming […]

Corporate juggernauts are coming to dominate the U.S. healthcare system. UnitedHealth now employs 10 percent of all physicians in the United States. Hospitals signed up more than 58,000 new physician employees and acquired nearly 5,000 private practices between 2019 and the end of 2021. Amazon and CVS are investing heavily in adding doctors to their payrolls. The gradual disappearance of […]