Texas State Representative Linda Harper Brown visited the Irving YMCA Afterschool Program at TJ Lee Elementary School on Thursday afternoon, October 23rd to get an inside peek of the YMCA after program in action.

She got our recommendation then and gets it now, based on her superior grasp of transportation and other key issues.

Behind all the fiery rhetoric aimed at the Texas Department of Transportation at a hearing today, the question hovering over the future of the 14,000-employee agency really comes down to who can best be trusted to govern it.

UT Dallas welcomed State Rep. Linda Harper-Brown to campus recently for briefings and tours of the University.

It's no secret the federal government has repeatedly failed to enforce immigration laws. Thus states and communities have been left to bear that burden. Many states and their communities have risen to this challenge; Texas and its local communities must do the same.