by Michael Chancellor | May 30, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
My wife, Anna, graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1969. At the time, the community was called Alta Loma, Texas, but now is Santa Fe City. Five years ago, on Thursday, May 19, 2018, a shooter killed 10 people and injured 13 at Santa Fe High School. Five years...
by Michael Chancellor | May 16, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature-, Opinion
Some politicians in the Texas Legislature are hyper-focused on adopting a far-right agenda while ignoring real issues and real people. These Republican lawmakers are attempting to pass legislation which would require the posting of the 10 Commandments in every...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 29, 2022 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article contains graphic imagery. Andre Thomas will be executed on April 5, 2023, in Texas, after the United States Supreme Court rejected a request to review his case. Called “one of the most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history,” his long...
by Michael Chancellor | Dec 29, 2021 | Opinion
I spent nearly six years leading the mental health department at the Allan B. Polunsky Maximum Security Prison in east Texas. This prison housed “death row” (DR), as well as a significant number of offenders in administrative segregation (AdSeg), more widely referred...
by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 24, 2021 | Opinion
I breathed a small sigh of relief after the tumultuous election of 2020 came to an end, hoping things would change for many waiting to flee harm and danger, whether from their own countries or ours in detention centers. Gone would be the days of children in cages,...
