Federal
Report: Panama Institutes Effort to Cut Off Illegal Migration to the US-Mexico Border
According to immigration expert Todd Bensman, the future success of Panama’s border closure efforts depends heavily on the outcome of the 2024 election.
City of Fort Worth Creates New LGBT Advisory Committee
The committee will advise and inform city officials about LGBT concerns.
Poll Reveals Rising Minority Support for Trump in Texas
Texans have an unfavorable view of Kamala Harris.
Tarrant County Democrat Sheriff Candidate is Not a Registered Peace Officer in Texas
According to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, Democrat candidate Patrick Moses has not been awarded a state peace officer’s license.
Federal Archive
Not All Growth Is Good
Poised to kill the goose of Texas' golden economy are local governments, which are growing at historic levels. My friend Tom Pauken, chairman of Texas' Workforce Commission, is lamenting this turn of events in an op-ed making the rounds in newspapers around the state....
Accountability is Public Humiliation for Board Members
Texas Rep. Charlie Howard R-Sugar Land crashed Fort Bend ISD’s tax raising party on Monday and did not hold any punches. Howard said he was "disappointed" with the taxing entity’s decision to raise taxes, pointing out that while the school district was raising its...
Dewhurst’s Ethics
Say what you will about our lieutenant governor, his sense of professional ethics is beyond reproach. I've had plenty to say about David Dewhurst's politics, good and bad, over the years, but snide attacks raised in the press by liberal activists are unconscionable....
Superintendents’ Super-Sized Salaries
As hundreds of Texas school districts insist that they are broke and need to raise taxes, last week the Lake Travis ISD voted to give superintendent Rocky Kirk a $6,000 pay raise. This brings his base salary to $231,520, which does not include numerous benefits. It is...
Plano Voters Want Property Tax Relief
In an online survey Rep. Jerry Madden (R-Plano) is conducting of his constituents, there is overwhelming support for property tax relief. Some 70% of respondents say the surplus should be used for property tax relief. Also, 65 percent support capping appraisal...
Terminated, Still Paid
The Associated Press is reporting that Texas' Health and Human Services Commission has been continuing to pay 1,229 employees... who had been fired. This comes to about $738,000 in taxpayer money going to former employees. The agency says it is working to recover the...
No Means No
More than 100 school districts around the state are going to be asking taxpayers to hike the tax burden. One area that won't see a tax hike on the table is San Antonio. Last year voters voters loudly said "no," and after much debate this summer, school officials...
Freeing Health Care
That individuals find it all but impossible to find health insurance is a function of disfunctional public policy. Tax policy highly favors employer-provided health insurance, further removing individuals from seeing the real cost of the care they receive. It also...
Buying Nothing
So the new SAT scores are out. After increasing per-student spending more 40 percent since the mid-1990s, SAT scores are exactly where they stood then. It's hard to know whose getting the worst deal, our kids or our taxpayers. To make matters worse, our SAT scores are...