David Mastio
@DavidMastio
National Opinion Columnist for @KCStarOpinion/McClatchy & Editor of The Point Fmr @DCExaminer @WashTimes @USATODAY @DetroitNews @VirginianPilot @TheCenterSquare
I worked with Evan on the editorial board for five years. He is going to do an incredible job. You might not always agree with - I don't - but he will lead an intelligent and intellectually honest discussion of the issues Houston is facing.
Read my introductory column as the @HoustonChron's new opinion editor and see how many times I say "Build the Ike Dike" (link in next tweet)
I researched it. Even Trump can’t run government-backed grocery stores | Opinion kansascity.com/opinion/opn-co…
I’ll take what are things the government overegulates then subsidizes for 1000 jack!
The cost of housing has gone up by 174% since 1990. Childcare costs are up 120%. Healthcare costs are up a whopping 270%. It doesn't have to be this way. Our government can put American families first, create good jobs, and build an economy that people can afford.
The Dispatch has launched The Next 250, a yearlong project. We’ll spend the year talking about how we can take that baton and build towards a future our Founding Fathers can be proud of. Join today: thedispatch.com/join-offer/the…
I’m amazed at how Trump is repeating his first term blunders. He had nothing to hide on Russia, but he behaved like the guiltiest of people. Now he has nothing (left) to hide on Epstein, and he’s doing only what a guilty person would do.
Let me be clear: Trump sending his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell stinks of high corruption and conflict of interest.
Heavy-handed, bureaucratic price determinations don't work. Most people understand that a central-planning economy can't work, and they understand that a big reason is that no person or group can match market-driven prices, yet CMS persists anyway. realclearhealth.com/articles/2025/…
A waning population is a sign of decline, not flourishing. @KatrinaTrinko on the alarming drop in the fertility rate, which hit an all-time low last year with less than 1.6 kids per woman (2.1 is replacement level). dailysignal.com/2025/07/24/sil…
This is how it should be. People who like NPR and PBS can support them with their dollars—the same business model that exists for virtually every other media outlet. No one has convincingly explained why they deserved different treatment.
scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…
They know which way Trump is going on this, and they're laying the groundwork.
Holy shit. NewsMax has officially begun calling Ghislaine Maxwell a “victim.”
Good that is what churches should do. Ice does the deporting, churches do the supporting.
L.A. Catholic Church to deliver food, medicine to immigrants affected by ICE raids latimes.com/california/sto…
It is with great sadness I learned an artist, concerned about censorship, has pulled a show from the Smithsonian so that I cannot see a transgender statue of liberty. Oh darn /sarcasm.
Note that Rupert Murdoch has done much more to stand up for free speech via his stewardship of the Wall Street Journal than several of these big media conglomerates.
July 1: Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's personal lawsuit against CBS. July 22: Trump and Paramount dismiss the case, formalizing the settlement. July 24: Trump-appointed FCC approves $8 billion Paramount merger. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…
Two things that can simultaneously be true: it would’ve been bad for the government to prevent the publication of Hulk Hogan’s private sex tape or punish the people who published it. And it’s totally fine that Hogan sued Gawker for invading his privacy.
Finally, reason prevails...
🚨 BREAKING: Kaiser Permanente just told employees it will stop child gender surgeries August 29: "After significant deliberation ... we’ve made the difficult decision to pause gender-affirming surgical treatment for patients under 19 in our hospitals and surgical centers."
This is as dumb as pressuring people to add them.
The University of Kansas staff is now required to remove gender pronouns from their email signatures to comply with a new Board of Regents directive. thecollegefix.com/u-kansas-staff…
Mandatory donations to NPR replaced with voluntary donations. Good!
scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…
Excellent, if you like them, support them.
scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…
If @AndyBeshearKY truly runs for the White House, this issue reported by @heraldleader for years is going to dog him on the trail. ‘Why haven’t you fixed this?” Youths afraid to leave cells at KY juvenile detention center | Lexington Herald Leader kentucky.com/news/politics-…