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AG Paxton Sues Austin Over Taxpayer-funded Abortion Travel
Attorney General Ken Paxton says the city’s abortion fund violates the Texas Constitution and provides no “clear public benefit.”
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Lawsuit Accuses Democrat State House Candidate of Not Paying Vendors
House District 80 Democrat candidate Cecilia Castellano is already under investigation by Attorney General Ken Paxton in a separate voter fraud case.
El Paso Teacher Arrested Twice for Sex Crimes Involving 12-Year-Old Student
Socorro ISD middle school teacher Llojan Almaraz is charged with child grooming and other felonies.
Texas Supreme Court Sides With Dallas in State Fair Gun Ban Case
Attorney General Ken Paxton says his fight to protect the Second Amendment is not over.
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Taylor Criticizes House ‘Distortion’ Of Ethics Package
State Sen. Van Taylor (R-Plano) expressed astonishment on Wednesday night for the elimination of meaningful ethics reforms of elected officials in the House. Instead of finding additional opportunities for ethics reform focused on elected officials, the House elected...
Houston Police Department Incentives
Out of Houston’s 5,300-person police force, 57% live outside of Houston proper. Although common in many urban areas, this can partly be attributed to Houston’s high cost of living and relatively low starting salaries of department cadets. As a result, a new program to...
Rail Expansion Is Killing DART
Addison officials are frustrated that, despite residents paying over $238 million into Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) since 1983, they have yet to receive a train station. But failing to provide rail service to all fifteen of its member-cities may be the least of...
Sunset on the Tall City’s TIRZ
Midland City Council voted last August to cast a one-year sunset provision on a long-winded, and relatively unproductive, Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ). Established in March 2001, the TIRZ was created by the City of Midland in an effort to use taxpayer...
Mayor Parker’s Final Budget
Last week, Mayor Annise Parker revealed what she called her “lean and mean” conservative $5.1 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2016. Although the city has increasingly faced financial issues throughout Parker’s term, her latest budget, once again, offers no...
Grassroots America We the People Challenging Suspicious Speeding Camera Contract
On May 6th, JoAnn Fleming of Grassroots America We the People (GAWTP) filed a formal complaint with the Smith County district attorney’s office and the Texas attorney general's office requesting an investigation into a contract, and the process by which it was...
San Antonio Covering Up Preferential Treatment for Planned Parenthood
It appears as though City of San Antonio officials are going to great lengths to give preferential treatment to Planned Parenthood in regard to their improperly zoned $6.5 million facility located at 2140 Babcock. As we’ve previously reported, the City of San Antonio...
Road Bond Rhetoric
On Saturday Montgomery County voters overwhelmingly rejected the $350 million road bond presented by the county commissioners. Opposing residents warned for months leading up to the election that if the county did not listen to the residents and remove unwanted...
Half of Austin Lobbyists Represent Governments
Over half of registered lobbyists in Texas are hired to defend the power of local governments, paid for with taxpayer money. It makes perfect sense then, that State Sen. Konni Burton’s (R-Colleyville) effort (SB 1862) to reform the government lobbying structure was...