Commentary
Two Years Later: A Prosper ISD Mom’s Story
Eileen Riverside won’t let school board trustees get away with the notion that “no one is at fault” in the now two-year-old sex abuse scandal and cover-up.
Identity Politics Has Destroyed the Bonds of American Society
Urgent action is necessary now!
Y’All Answered: Abolish Austin?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
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Commentary Archive
Facts or Fake News?
This commentary originally appeared in an episode of Texas Scorecard Radio. In response to President Donald Trump’s continued criticism of the news media, a chorus of newspaper editorial boards recently denounced his comments as destructive to democracy. But are their...
City of Parker Proposes Double-Digit Property Tax Increase
The City of Parker has proposed a two-cent increase in the city’s property tax rate for 2018. While this is a 5-percent increase in the rate, it amounts to an 11-percent increase in what taxpayers will pay to the city, when compared to last year. Since homeowners have...
Spano: Ft. Worth is deceiving taxpayers
The City of Fort Worth is trying a cunning strategy to deceive its residents. It involves telling the citizens the proposed tax rate is much lower than what the city can, and more than likely, will adopt. We should expect our local governments to be upfront and honest...
Frisco ISD Trustees, Please Do the Right Thing
Citizens of Frisco ISD elect a School Board to represent them in the execution of, among their other duties, fiduciary responsibility over their hard-earned tax dollars. The state has given the board expansive power to levy taxes. But when the administration...
“Swap and Drop” or Bait and Switch?
Lancaster Independent School District is following in the footsteps of nearby Cedar Hill ISD in calling for a tax rate “swap and drop” election. Unfortunately for taxpayers, LISD has been deceptive in its presentation, its promotional literature leaves questions...
What’s All the Fuss about the Montgomery County Republican Party?
For 54 years, Dr. Walter D. Wilkerson has chaired the Montgomery County Republican Party of Texas. He was there when Texas, like most of the south, was “blue” and he was there when much of the south, along with Texas, turned “red”.While the demographics of the country...
Plano City Council: Stop Raising Our Property Taxes
City of Plano property taxes are increasing at an unsustainable rate. In the last five years, according to the city’s own data, the average Plano homeowner has seen their city tax bill rise 36 percent, while inflation has increased less than 8 percent. This is a...
Stacy McMahan: A Marine Mom Defending Liberty
When Stacy McMahan first heard that one person could make a difference, she took it to heart. What she didn’t expect was the kind of local and statewide impact she would soon come to have. McMahan is a native Texan, Marine mom, and retired paralegal who lives with her...
How Many of These Tax-Funded Films Have You Seen?
Do you pay taxes in the state of Texas? Well then congratulations, you’re a film producer! In 2005, the Texas Legislature created the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program, a scheme by which citizens’ tax dollars are doled out to film companies to subsidize...