Shelley Luther refused to let officials wreck her salon and the paychecks of the women who worked there. When they threw her in jail for the “crime” of reopening so families could eat, she became living proof that ordinary people still have a spine.
North Texas voters did not forget. They sent the woman who spent nights behind bars for keeping her doors open straight to the Texas House, where she can fight the next round of shutdowns and mandates from the inside instead of from a cell.
That is how it is supposed to work. Stand up, take the hit, and let the people decide. Luther did all three, and now she writes the laws instead of sitting under them.

He sat six feet from four of the 9/11 hijackers a month before the attack. He warned the FBI. Nobody listened until 3,000 people were dead. He spent the next 20 years explaining exactly what he saw.
James Woods was accepted into MIT on a full scholarship, majoring in political science, not the sciences most assumed a student there would pursue.
While still a student, he threw himself into theater instead, appearing in 36 plays across MIT, Harvard, and Boston's theater scene, as well as summer stock at the Provincetown Playhouse.
Acting won.
He built one of the most respected character-actor careers in Hollywood: Oscar nominations for "Salvador" and "Ghosts of Mississippi." Roles in "Once Upon a Time in America," "Casino," "The Virgin Su**ides." Two Primetime Emmys. A reputation as one of the sharpest, most unpredictable performers of his generation.
In August 2001, he boarded a flight from Boston to Los Angeles.
First class. Only four other passengers in the entire cabin.
Four men who appeared Middle ...