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McKinney Dad Sues School District for Banning Him From His Kids’ Campuses
Samuel Hall’s attorney Janelle Davis says they hope to give courage to other parents to stand up to abuses of power by school districts.
East Texas Bishop Faces Investigation After Criticizing the Pope and Taking Political Stances
Strickland has taken political initiative by describing President Joe Biden as an “evil president.”
Baby Among 4 Found Dead in the Rio Grande
Texas Department of Public Safety officers recovered four dead from the Rio Grande over the holiday weekend.
Illegal Alien Sentenced in Houston for Trafficking Guns and Drugs to Cartels
He was found with a rocket launcher, two rocket-propelled grenades, heroin, and “lots” of cash.
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FWISD: Doubling Down on Costly Debt Addiction
Despite severe warnings about heavy debt from the state’s comptroller, cities and schools have responded by proposing more of the same. Studies from the Texas Public Policy Foundation and elsewhere find that Texans face a local-debt epidemic, driven by local school...
Ethics Commission Breaks Law, Hides from Sunlight
Attorneys working on behalf of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and its president, Michael Quinn Sullivan, today filed a lawsuit against the Texas Ethics Commission for violating the state’s Open Records laws. The commission has become a tool of a few powerful...
Will Dallas City Council Propagate ‘Uber’ Nonsense?
The development of new products via technological innovation is revolutionizing the world. Technology is also providing innovative solutions to replace old transportation systems that only corrupt government bureaucrats are bold enough to fight. Uber, a technology...
Harris County: Layers on Layers of Bureaucracy
“We must raise taxes so the public education system can survive! It’s for the children!” is an all-too-common rationale heard screeching from government entities across the nation, lately. Last year, San Antonio mayor Julian Castro proposed a plan to create a new...
Texas GOP legislators growing government
At political blog sandstormscholar.com, the following was posted about the 83rd Legislature: “State legislators are making the rounds touting the bills they passed. We wonder when we’re going to get less, not more. Instead of more laws how about fewer? An agenda of...
Plano ISD: Massive Debt May Lead to Higher Taxes
Texans are becoming increasingly aware of our state’s local borrowing crisis driven primarily by local school districts, as revealed in a series of reports released last year by the State Comptroller’s office. Michele Samuelson accurately summarized one of those...
Opposing tax increases is not the be-all of conservatism
Earlier this week Texans for Fiscal Responsibility released Texas’ most important conservative scorecard of legislator performance for the latest session. Michael Quinn Sullivan titled his summary of the report “Lack of Responsibility” and I couldn’t agree more. I say...
Know the “effective rate” to judge local tax rate changes
It’s local budget time and all over Texas I see the distortions of city and county elected officials ignorantly passed along by local members of the media. Time and again I read quotes of officials talking about how they are giving local taxpayers a break by either...
Ethics Commission Suppresses Testimony
In a letter to the Texas Ethics Commission, attorneys for Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Michael Quinn Sullivan are demanding that all documents, records and electronic files be preserved in the wrongful complaints filed against their clients. [side_text]The...