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Taxpayers Win in Wylie
Another North Texas city is lowering its property tax rate for 2018 and trimming spending increases to keep residents’ city tax bills steady amid rising property values. Wylie City Council voted Tuesday to adopt a budget and tax rate for fiscal year 2018-19. The city...
Six Weeks: Will You Make Them Count?
On October 22, Texans will start casting votes in the November general election. We’ll soon be voting for everything from congressional and state representatives to county commissioners; statewide officials (including Texas Supreme Court justices) to judges at every...
TEC’s Litigation Lies Exposed in LBB Letter
The Texas Ethics Commission has been caught telling lies to the legislators who oversee them. Pretty unethical! But will legislators do anything about it? This week I sent a letter to Ursula Parks, the director of the Legislative Budget Board. That’s the agency tasked...
Teacher Sexual Misconduct Reaches New Record
Hidden cockroaches may lull us into complacency, but visible ones can be crushed. Recently released numbers show that investigations of inappropriate sexual relationships between teachers and students have reached all-time highs. These investigations, conducted by the...
Beto Ducks Second Debate
Once again, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, the Democrat El-Paso congressman and current candidate for US Senate, will be dodging a debate with his opponent US Sen. Ted Cruz. The debate was one of five proposed by Cruz in July. After initially agreeing to the debates,...
Education Board Votes to Keep References to Alamo Heroes
In a preliminary vote, the State Board of Education unanimously rejected a proposal to remove the Travis Letter and the heroic defenders of the Alamo from the seventh-grade social studies curriculum. The proposal originated from a workgroup tasked with making changes...
Texas Scorecard Podcasts, Uncategorized
Texas Scorecard Radio (September 13, 2018)
Episode 50: Tony McDonald sits down with Cary Cheshire and Charles Blain to discuss what is happening in the news. Mark Pulliam is back to discuss his newest project intended to "stop the insanity at UT." Michael Quinn Sullivan has a commentary. ...
Clipping The Puppet Master’s Strings
To the chagrin of the Austin establishment, Texans know who Joe Straus is, the disgraced outgoing speaker of the Texas House. Straus has been the face of a coalition of Democrats, crony Republicans and lobbyists working to thwart the reform agendas of conservatives....
Lubbock Mayor Complains of Lack of Permits for Bird Scooters
Scooter sharing has made its way to Lubbock and Mayor Dan Pope spared no time before complaining about how the companies that came to town didn’t seek permission to be there. In an interview with KCBD, Pope complained that Bird, the company that operates the service,...