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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...