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Former Houston Police Officer Convicted of Murders
The 2019 Harding Street Raid was based on falsified reports and took the lives of Dennis Tuttle, Rhogena Nicholas, and their dog.
Advocates Stress Water Conservation in Legislative Hearing
Although Texas’ water supply is improving, there is still work to be done.
Government Doing Evil…In YOUR Name, With YOUR Money
On this Salcedo Storm Podcast: Luca Cacciatore, journalist at Texas Scorecard.
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Are Your Taxes Going Up?
Across the state, local taxing entities are taking full advantage that allows them to raise your taxes...
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Budget Busters
There’s very little that ails us that a little sunlight and fresh air can’t cure – and that’s especially true when it comes to government waste and bloat. Our friends over at the Texas Public Policy Foundation this week unveiled a snazzy little tool called...
News You Can Use
Readers of the Houston Chronicle's website now have a nifty tool: browse the pay of nearly every public employee in Houston and Harris County. Topping the payroll at $442,556 is HISD superintendent Abelardo Saavedra. Coming in a distant second is the "Chancellor...
Tax Sweat
One way to avoid listening to taxpayers is to simply keep them out of earshot. Take, for example, Collin County in north Texas. County commissioners there are going to take up discussion next week on a proposal to build a county-employees-only physical fitness...
Obama’s Texas Takeover
Team Obama appears poised to dump a lot of cash into Texas this season -- though not necessarily because his team thinks he can carry the state. Apparently the Obama team is looking ahead to the congressional redistricting of 2011. They want to spend some of his...
Government Math
You gotta hand it to the bean-counters in Sugar Land, outside Houston -- they sure know how to sell an idea. They're trying to convince residents(presumably with success) that spending $18 million to get $13 million, over 25 years, is a good use of the taxpayers;...
Plenty of Money for Property Tax Relief
A new report by the Rockefeller Institute finds that, while other states are sagging, Texas sales tax revenues are up 12 percent from last July through March and the Comptroller is predicting a $10.7 billion surplus. Thus, the national economic slowdown, which has...
Jindal For… Anything
So I usually don't think much about Louisiana. I sometimes forget it's even there, kind of like Utah or Nevada or Rhode Island. But Gov. Bobby Jindal is making conservatives take note. I've met him a time or two, and been as impressed as everyone else who meets him....
Defending Us
Rockets’ red glare, bombs bursting in air – such a poetic way to describe such horrifying circumstances. Most of us sing those words and wave our flags, awaiting the start of a parade or baseball game. But many who walk in our midst wear – or wore – the flag of our...
Margins Tax Strikes Sour Note for Kids Learning Instruments
One of the true taxpayer heroes in the Legislature, Rep. Ken Paxton (R-McKinney), reports in his newsletter today that the Music Conservatory of Texas, which taught over 33,000 music lessons in 2007, paid $6,200 of its $8,394 in profit to the state under the new...