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Taxpayers Should Take Notice of Houston’s Long-Term Financial Goals
Houston taxpayers spent over half a million dollars for a private consulting firm to make recommendations to the city on best budgeting practices, cost reductions, and ways to increase revenue. In addition to the colossal amount spent on the firm, some of their...
Bloated Bond Packages
April in Texas is a great time of year. Baseball is back, warmer weather is in the air, bluebonnets are growing, and cities are pushing massive bond packages. Ok maybe that last one isn’t some thing all that great, but it typically happens this time of year. The...
Trump Nominates Austin Attorney David Morales for Federal Judge Post
President Donald Trump has recently nominated Austin attorney David Morales to be a U.S district court judge in Corpus Christi. The seat has been vacant for the past seven years and was declared to be a judicial emergency. Morales has been lauded by Republican...
Beto O’Rourke: If You Like Your AR-15, You Can Keep It*
In an interview at SXSW last month, US Senate hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke kicked off his campaign by doing something most Texas Democrats have been loath to do: line out his opposition to the Second Amendment and advocate that Texans should be prohibited...
Parker County Sets Texas’ First Annexation Reform Election
At the Historic Parker County Courthouse, county commissioners took a historic vote to put Texas' first municipal annexation reform “opt-in” proposition on the November ballot. On March 5, citizens with the group Stop Involuntary Annexation in Parker County filed the...
Midland Implementing New “Tax”
Our City Council is planning to take more of your money, this time via a stormwater runoff fee on the water bill. For residents, the tiered fee structure ranges from $1.20 to $3.40 per month and is based on the square footage of your home’s roofline. Barring any...
Revoking Occupational Licenses for Failing to Pay Student Loans is Illogical
Occupational licensing is a growing concern in Texas. Over the past 50 years, the number of professional fields requiring licensure in the state has grown from 5 percent to 30 percent. A “license to work” not only acts as barrier to employment for those seeking to...
Another Resignation
Four-term Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus Christi), who had shelved his plan to run for re-election well before the March 6th state primary largely due to details stemming from a sexual harassment settlement, abruptly resigned from the House on Friday. Mr....
Texas Opportunity Zones Could Prove Successful Across the State
Last year, when the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was passed, Texans were excited to finally see the federal government move on a reform that was long-promised. A little-known provision within that bill, though, encourages private investment in distressed...