In June, the Art Trail featured a drag show performance, a “child-friendly LGBT workshop,” and other woke displays.
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North Texas School Board Members Indicted for Violating Open Meetings Act
Fallout from Carroll ISD’s conflict with parents over the controversial Cultural Competence Action Plan continues.
Austin’s Homeless Lawlessness Continues With Burning of Historic Downtown Tower
The arson is the latest consequence of city hall’s harmful decisions.
Exclusive Interview: Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson on Police Overtime Cut
Call to action given for citizens to hold council members accountable.
Pregnant Mother Removed from Dallas Mass for Not Wearing Mask
“They said, ‘This is a business, and the business does not want you here.’”
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Kris Kittle: A Strong Voice in Education
Keller resident and college professor Kris Kittle shares about her fight in North Texas education and how parents can start making a difference.
Sen. Paxton Urges Abbott to Reopen Texas
“All businesses are essential” is the common theme among officials and citizens urging the governor to lift restrictions and release a plan to get Texas back to work.
West Texas Mayors Sign Letter to Abbott: Reopen West Texas
Mayors representing the seven largest cities in West Texas signed a letter to Gov. Abbott presenting their plan to reopen businesses while mitigating risk.
County Official: Citizens May Need to Wear Masks for ‘At Least a Year’
“We will be under substantial modifications for at least a year.”
Local Government Cutting Spending Amid Coronavirus Shutdown
Due to falling tax revenues caused by shelter-in-place, North Richland Hills announced reductions in spending.
Local Governments Back Down on In-Person Worship Ban
Dallas County and Fort Worth fall in line behind new guidelines from Gov. Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton protecting houses of worship.
Texas Rep. Mike Lang: “All Businesses Are Essential”
Lang declared in a strongly worded letter that all businesses in HD-60 are essential and parts of Gov. Abbott’s executive orders are unconstitutional.
County Commissioners Communicate Coronavirus Confusion
Tarrant County commissioners voted unanimously to change orders to remove farming and fishing from its list of essential businesses, while Commissioner Devan Allen defied the commissioners court order—and Gov. Abbott—by claiming the county had banned in-person worship.
Crippled by Coronavirus Shutdowns, Texas Small Businesses Make Plans to Reopen
After weeks of waiting on the governor to develop a plan to reopen, two Texas businesses hurt by the failure of leadership move forward with their own reopening plans.
Dallas Commissioners Defy Abbott and Grassroots, Extend Shelter in Place
Commissioners Koch and Price sided with grassroots protesters demanding an end to shelter in place. The rest of the commissioners voted to extend beyond what the governor’s order allows.
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Taxpayers Bamboozled Over Bonds
The issuance of debt by government officials is a passive form of taxation, because debt issued today will...
Murphy Turner & Associates Ordered To Pay $41,000 Bill
A state district judge in Bexar County today ordered Murphy Turner & Associates to pay $41,000 in discovery...
FWISD: Doubling Down on Costly Debt Addiction
Interest expense is a huge cost that won’t be included on the ballot, nor in town halls conducted by district staff that will be living off taxpayer provided pensions by the time voters realize what hit them.
Ethics Commission Breaks Law, Hides from Sunlight
Is Texas Ethics Commission chairman Jim Clancy overseeing an ‘unsupervised’ agency?
Will Dallas City Council Propagate ‘Uber’ Nonsense?
The new regulations proposed by Joey Zapata are brilliant in their stupidity.
Harris County: Layers on Layers of Bureaucracy
Harris County now wants to add yet another layer of money-grabbing bureaucracy … ‘for the children!’
Texas GOP legislators growing government
At political blog sandstormscholar.com, the following was posted about the 83rd Legislature: “State...
Plano ISD: Massive Debt May Lead to Higher Taxes
The district spends more money carrying debt than it does providing resources to teachers and students in the classroom. Debt is literally cannibalizing their budget.
Opposing tax increases is not the be-all of conservatism
Earlier this week Texans for Fiscal Responsibility released Texas’ most important conservative scorecard of...
Know the “effective rate” to judge local tax rate changes
It’s local budget time and all over Texas I see the distortions of city and county elected officials...