A major obstacle blocking pro-taxpayer reforms are local politicians, bureaucrats and the lobbyists they hire with your money. More than half of registered lobbyists in Austin are hired to represent government-interests. That means taxpayers are forced to subsidize...

Texas taxpayers paid for the Mongolian death worm. Confused? You should be. The Mongolian death worm isn’t the latest scary disease, it was a grade-b, made-for-TV sci-fi movie that no one saw.

More than 85 percent of Texas Republicans voted to bring competition to public education, but one Texas billionaire is spending his money to make sure kids are trapped in failing schools.

During a recent Senate hearing, government-interest groups were at it again, passionately opposing greater ballot transparency for Texas taxpayers. Ballot transparency is critical, considering Texas has the second-highest, local debt per resident in the nation… higher...

There are just some lists conservatives don’t want Texas to make. As the clock counted down on 2015, the conservative national news group Watchdog.org listed the 25 scariest people of the year. At the top of that list was none other than the Republican Speaker of the...

Some people refer to the famously liberal city of Austin as the People’s Republic. Others brag about it being the Live Music Capital of the World. One thing is for certain: Austin is the capital of Texas. It wasn’t always so.

Quick Texas politics quiz: which election is more important, the partisan primary in March, or the November general election? While every election matters, the March primaries for partisan offices is where the real decisions are made in Texas...

Ingrained in the Lone Star State’s mythos, and grounded in our daily reality, is the simple, inescapable belief that Texas is a place that respects independence and hard work...

Texas has the second-highest per-capita debt in the nation: we even have more local debt than California!

A Texas School district is spending big on travel for the elected school board members. Wouldn't the money be better spent in the classroom?