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Fort Worth ISD Earns ‘C’ in Unofficial Accountability Rating
The district dropped from a B rating in 2022 to a C rating during the 2023-2024 school year.
Austin’s Rental Rates Drop as Construction Booms, But Tax Hikes Loom Large
Rent is going down, but taxes are going up.
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McKinney Puts Misleading Term Limit Language on November Ballot
According to opponents, the city’s official ballot “deliberately omits wording that indicates term extensions.”
Kerrville Residents Win Partial Injunction Against City’s Electioneering Ordinance
Two sections of the city’s electioneering law, including restrictions on residents “congregating” outside its sole polling location, are temporarily voided.
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Dallas County Has a Voter Fraud Problem
How easy is it to steal mail ballots in Dallas County? “Easy,” says a Dallas campaign worker and voter fraud whistleblower – and he’s got recordings to prove it. In conversations secretly recorded by his fellow campaign worker Sidney Williams and released to local ABC...
Paxton Prosecutor May Have Violated Law on Exculpatory Evidence
One of the Houston-based special prosecutors who is prosecuting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may have violated state law requiring prosecutors to receive training in how to avoid so-called Brady violations regarding the withholding of exculpatory evidence. The...
More Scandal Hits Dallas Bus Bureaucracy, Legislature Weighs Shutdown
Dallas’ embattled bus bureaucracy is scrambling for cash in the wake of last week’s credit downgrade, more scandal, and another hearing in the Texas Legislature on a bill to abolish the agency. The bureaucracy is drowning in debt, despite being subsidized by taxpayers...
Misconceptions About Houston’s Property Tax Cap
Houston taxpayers have had protection against increasing property taxes for almost fifteen years, but if Mayor Sylvester Turner has his way, that won’t be the case for much longer. During the 2014 mayoral campaign, in the midst of pension talks, and as recently as his...
Grand Prairie ISD Taxpayers Tapped for Outrageous Admin Perks
The school board of a North Texas school district is forcing taxpayers to provide its head administrator with perks never before seen in Texas. The school board has barely flinched under criticism, even since recent news reports exposed the district’s absurd policies....
Collin College Kicks Off $600 Million Spending Spree
Just days after voters said yes to a $600 million bond package for expanding Collin College, trustees met to approve a $9.6 million contract for “program management services” related to the expansion. That amount is just for “Phase 1” of the mega-bond funded “Master...
Court of Appeals Stays Paxton Prosecution Pending Hearing on Judge
The Dallas Court of Appeals has stayed further proceedings in the prosecution of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pending a hearing on Paxton’s petition for mandamus and prohibition against Judge George Gallagher. In his petition for writ of mandamus and writ of...
Dallas County’s ‘Junk’ Bus Bureaucracy Is Downgraded Again
In the latest blow to Dallas’s problem-plagued bus bureaucracy, Moody’s again downgraded the credit rating of Dallas County Schools, this time to “junk bond” status. The downgrade is bound to affect how the Texas Legislature decides to deal with the financially...
Where Do Texas Homeowners Pay the Highest Property Taxes?
Texas homeowners pay the fourth-highest property tax bills in the nation, when home values are taken into account. Despite Texans clamoring for real reform and relief, state lawmakers in the Texas House failed to deliver when they diluted and defanged the Senate’s...