Today the Texas Racing Commission will take testimony from citizens concerned with the agency’s impending constitutional overreach. The Commission is considering enacting a rule that would allow Texas horse and dog tracks to implement devices called “instant racing”...
Late Tuesday, in an exercise of political tone-deafness, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus appointed Representatives Drew Darby, John Otto, and John Zerwas to vacancies on the Legislative Budget Board, a powerful department which oversees the budget writing process each...
When Empower Texans President Michael Quinn Sullivan went before the Texas Ethics Commission last month on charges that he had failed to register as a lobbyist, much of the testimony hinged on whether Sullivan qualified for the media exception to the lobby law as an...
The cavalcade of objections coming from those who have close relations with Bill Powers has grown increasingly weak and silent as the embattled UT President’s impending termination draws near. The protests peaked yesterday with House Select Committee Chairmen Dan...
Over the holiday weekend, Breitbart Texas broke news that University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa had offered embattled University of Texas President Bill Powers an opportunity to resign or else be fired at the upcoming meeting of the UT Board of...
The gambling industry appears to have shifted its focus to a different set of bureaucrats.
Today we received a copy of a letter sent to current University of Texas Board of Regents Chairman Paul Foster by Charles Miller, criticizing his recent call for fellow regent Wallace Hall to resign. Charles Miller was appointed to the University of Texas Board of...
Those involved in political movements have known for many years that half the battle in any argument is winning the battle over what language will be used to describe the terms of that debate. When we allow our opponents to set the terms, we operate at a deep...
State Representative Dan Branch, who formerly worked as a labor union lobbyist in Washington, DC, has come under fire recently in his campaign for Attorney General for false statements he made on the campaign trail. Breitbart Texas recently released a letter sent by...
On Tuesday, Texas House State Affairs Committee Chairman Byron Cook penned a letter to Texas Ethics Commission Chairman Jim Clancy. The letter, signed by eleven of thirteen members of Cook’s committee, asked Clancy to adopt a rule effective January 1, 2015 to require...