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Dingus Doofus
West Texas is alight with anticipation that House Speaker Tom Craddick is going to be debating his November democratic party challenger, former Midland city council member Bill Dingus. Should be a good show. You gotta feel sorry for poor Dingus; a Democratic Party...
Quarter Million Dollar Man
This article is short and sweet folks, the Northside ISD school board knows that Bexar County residents don’t want their taxes raised but they don’t give a hoot. Northside ISD board members heard from citizens last night concerned about the impending tax increase...
Charitable Czar
Dallas' homeless Czar is looking to increase the size of his kingdom with a $40 million expenditure. The Dallas Morning News is reporting on a plan that would construct up to 700 homes for the homeless. The price tag includes the cost of constructing the new homes,...
New Report Shows Texas Property Tax Collections Have Increased Since 2005
Total property taxes paid by Texans actually rose from 20.3 billion in 2005 to 22 billion in 2007, despite the 2005 school property tax rate cuts, according to a new study. Thus, property tax collections have increased 8.4%, more than the 4.4% increase in state's...
Playing The Fiddle
An apologist for the failing school system called today, furious we've been picking on the tax-increasing, budget-busting ways of schools that aren't producing results. The caller, an aide to a Republican state representative, said that "Dallas ISD is doing great...
Survey Says: Public Ed Stinks
A new poll from the University of Texas' Government Department and the Texas Politics project finds Texans are underwhelmed by their public schools. The pollsters asked what Texans thought of the "quality of K-12 public school education." Result: 49 percent said "not...
Not Everyone Is Doing It
It might seem like every school district in the state is reaching deeper and deeper into their taxpayers wallets, but some are behaving responsibly. Wichita Falls Independent School District has announced they're going to live with the existing tax rate. Of course,...
Open, Responsible Government In Collin County
Not only is Collin County one of the fastest growing counties in the nation, it's now leading the nation in full fiscal transparency. Located north of Dallas and encompassing Plano, McKinney and Frisco, taxpayers there now have unprecedented access to the county's...
A Temple Of Waste
It'll take more than Astroturf to cover-up the problems at Abilene's Wylie Independent School District. Passing rates have fallen like a brick since 2000, according to the state education agency, while per pupil revenues have grown like a weed. But never mind the...