Texans for Strong Borders urges legislators to change the residency requirement for in-state tuition so that only U.S. citizens are eligible for this benefit.
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Y’All Answered: Using Twitter?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Know What You Expect
Citizens seeking to impact public policy often do so shackled by the low expectations set by political cronies. It’s time for the grassroots to raise expectations.
Y’All Answered: A Stolen Election?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Plano ISD Can’t Afford $130 Million Event Center on November Ballot
This event center is not for the students. It’s for our ego, at the expense of our students and our teachers.
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People Pleasers
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Education, Not Indoctrination
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Evidence, Big And Small
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Dickson: Houston Attorney Retained by San Angelo Residents Questions Legality of Mayor’s Actions
“… If she has twisted arms behind the scenes to ensure the council doesn’t adopt this ordinance, then she has violated the Open Meetings Act and the March 1 public hearing will be a sham.”
Dickson: San Angelo Council Certifies Initiative Signatures, Sets Hearing on Outlawing Abortion
The fight for the San Angelo Ordinance Outlawing Abortion is far from over.
Volume and Mass
Depending on your perspective, campaigns either try to convert political volume into a mass of support through messaging, or use the volume of messaging to conceal their lack of mass.
Dickson: Planned Parenthood Withdraws Appeal Over Lubbock Anti-Abortion Ordinance
When the ordinance passed in 2021, the citizens knew it would not be without a challenge.
Who Are The Idiots?
Whatever bad things one has to say about school boards are more appropriately directed at the citizens who elect them… or ignore them.
Dickson: City of Alvin Rejects Ordinance Outlawing Abortion
“I felt the mayor and council, who all professed to be pro-life, were either misinformed or uninformed and may have felt rushed into taking a vote.”
Bovard: Republicans Plan To Win Back the Senate, Then Do Nothing, Per Usual
Republicans cannot afford to do what they have largely always done with a Senate majority: set it on a shelf, polish it, and admire it from afar.
Remembering the Horror
The Holocaust reminds us that when one abandons God and His precepts, when one looks to government as the savior, a cult of death and destruction is but a step away.
Root: Signatures Undermined
Another flaw in Texas’ election integrity bill highlighted.
Protecting Words
Just as we go to great lengths to preserve the original copy of the Constitution, so the people at Qumran wanted to preserve the written fundamentals of their faith.