Commentary
Texas Must Cease Using Race in Admissions, Employment, and Contracting
The Legislature should permanently remove the stain of racial discrimination from our statutes.
Y’All Answered: Are Lawmakers Stealing From Taxpayers?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
The Local Fight Against Abortion in a Post-Roe Texas
The work continues to protect life.
Sometimes, Tax Cuts Are Not Enough
We must never allow ourselves to be conned into accepting politicians’ false choices any more than we should follow them in the worship of false gods.
Commentary Archive
Cloud Wins Special
Perhaps the most unique special election from a long series of 2017-18 irregular voting contests just wrapped up this weekend in southeast Texas, capping a subdued political battle that attracted little national attention. Former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus...
The Legislative Priorities Committee of the RPT 2018 Convention
At the 2016 Republican State Convention, the Legislative Priorities were generated in the Platform and Resolutions Committee. The SREC created a separate Committee for the 2018 Convention. The SRECs appointed one delegate from each of the 31 Senatorial Districts. The...
Rep. Matt Shaheen: Abolish the Texas Film Commission
One of the first bills I filed as a Texas legislator was to end taxpayer subsidies for the film industry in Texas. My reasons for wanting to end film subsidies are fourfold: 1) these subsidies provide poor economic returns and are not economically feasible; 2) the...
Re-Imagining the Alamo Continues
The latest plans for designing the Alamo in San Antonio were revealed Tuesday night, June 5, including scrapping the controversial glass walls proposed last year...and moving the Cenotaph. The crowd at the Witte Museum's Prassel Auditorium watched, listened, booed and...
Kelly Canon: Fighting For a Better Texas
Activist Kelly Canon may be best known for leading a successful grassroots effort to ban red-light cameras in her home city of Arlington. Yet the conservative leader’s activism spans a decade of local and state political involvement — and it continues today with an...
Well-Intentioned Plan to Protect Rural Voters Could Have Disastrous Consequences
This commentary originally appeared in an episode of Texas Scorecard Radio. A bold plan by some Texas Republicans to limit government could actually have the opposite effect—undermining our system of government and jeopardizing the rights of citizens by turning state...
Democrats to Revisit ‘Super Delegates’
According to an article in yesterday’s Politico newspaper, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez informed a group of US House members this week in a meeting that the party will be considering a move to change the status of what are now known as “Super...
State Probe Keeps Heat On San Antonio’s Lawless Police Chief
(This story was updated at 10:05 a.m., June 7) The double standards and duplicity are piling up on the desk of San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. With the city’s top lawman under state investigation over the release of a truckload of illegal aliens, the Police...
As San Antonio Booms, Express-News Goes Bust
On the day the San Antonio Express-News announced it had terminated 14 more newsroom employees, Metro Editor Nora Lopez boldly declared, “We still own this city.” And dinosaurs once ruled the Earth. Express-News Publisher Susan Pape assured readers that the “Voice of...