Dislocation and gentrification is hitting Austin hard. Despondent over an ever-increasing cost of living while on his watch, Austin Mayor Steve Adler recently created a task force to study the factors that drive residents from their neighborhoods in search of new,...
Things are heating up in Straus’ home county, where a new poll conducted earlier this week validates the county GOP’s recent resolution to remove Straus from the House Speakership due to his opposition towards conservative reforms and Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda....
“I have a vision, a goal, that I intend to achieve, whether it be this election or some election in the future. My goal is to ensure that in my lifetime, that the Rio Grande Valley is going to be voting Republican every single election,” Abbott stated as he spoke to...
President Donald Trump kicked off the first meeting of his Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on Wednesday with a commitment to the principle of “one citizen, one vote” and upholding the integrity of the ballot box. “Every time voter fraud occurs,...
Inspired by a stunning rebuke from Straus’s own home county party, the Smith County GOP passed a resolution to censure the speaker for his repeated obstruction of conservative reforms – and they’re urging other county parties to do the same. Last Tuesday, the...
A recent job posting by Midland ISD could give a glimpse into a much deeper issue within Texas’ public school system: classroom vs. administrative spending. The district is looking for an executive director of communications and public relations – a move that doesn’t...
With lawmakers back in Austin for a special session, Gov. Greg Abbott has given them an extensive list of conservative reforms he wants them to pass during the 30-day taxpayer-funded overtime. And he’s been insistent that members of the Texas Legislature have no...
Houston’s Public Works and Engineering Director Karun Sreerama, has been on paid leave for ten days and counting, following the revelation that he was the victim of a bribery scheme concocted by Houston Community College Trustee Chris Oliver. Shortly after the story...
Raz Shafer, a soon-to-be father from Fort Worth, was pretty much born into politics. But he never thought he’d be as politically active as he is today. Such a statement may sound odd from a lifetime political activist, Hillsdale College graduate, Ted Cruz staffer,...
With Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calling for pay raises for teachers by directing existing dollars into the classroom, labor unions have been staking out positions in opposition to the benefits as an “unfunded mandate.” However, many of these same...
A group of Texas mayors penned a letter to the governor opposing several of his special-session priorities. While they claim the reforms are a state takeover that erodes “local control,” the exact opposite is true—they empower Texas property owners. “Local control”...
Texans are concerned that mail ballot fraud is being used to steal elections – especially close local elections that typically have low voter turnout. Marvin Sutton is one of those concerned Texans. In June, Sutton lost a city council race by just two votes. But he...
As campaign finance reports come rolling in for the quarter, many are looking to see how well candidates are doing leading up to next year’s primary. However, with some local elections coming in November, PAC reports provide a good idea of who will emerge as key...
Members of the Texas Senate gaveled in shortly after midnight to unanimously pass the critical “sunset” bill keeping the Texas Medical Board and other agencies open another two years. The late night work so early in the special session triggered the inclusion of the...
A liberal university administrator at Texas A&M is being kept on as an employee even after an internal audit found she had “significant conflict of interest issues tied to business dealings” with her lesbian spouse. According to reporting by the Bryan-College...
House Speaker Joe Straus and his allies killed legislation to protect privacy and business freedom in the regular session. And now, to the delight of the state’s homosexual activist lobby, they’re moving to scuttle the issue once again during the special session...
As the gears on the special session bus begin to turn, many opponents of Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda are firing attacks from their respective cities demanding that state lawmakers stop preempting their “local control.” Unfortunately for city and county officials,...
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced his priorities for the special legislative session that started Tuesday, he included “cracking down on mail-in ballot fraud” among them. Texans are understandably concerned about this type of voter fraud as multiple criminal...
A convoluted case pitting city officials against city employees is getting more complicated, leaving residents wondering when they’ll get the accountability they deserve. Two Denton Municipal Electric managers who were put on paid administrative leave while the city...
A central Texas lawmaker on Tuesday rejected petitions from constituents calling on the freshman state representative to pass all items on Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda. While in his capitol office, Marbles Falls Republican State Rep. Terry Wilson...
