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Denton County Jury Sentences Mail-ballot Fraudster to Four Years in Prison
Zul Mohamed pleaded guilty to 109 voter fraud felonies committed during his 2020 run for Carrollton mayor.
Houston-area Neurologist Pays Nearly $1M Settlement Over Fraudulent Billing Allegations
A federal investigation exposed the Medicare fraud.
Texans Protest Pornographic Books at Houston ISD Board Meeting
Multiple speakers were told to be silent when quoting various books’ profane descriptions.
Son of Late Shelia Jackson Lee Facing Investigations Over Residency
Jason Lee voted in Houston last month but is required to live in Chicago for his employment.
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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...
Trading Access?
When the University of Texas defended itself in the Fisher lawsuit, they provided a list of criteria considered for admission. Not surprisingly, they failed to list what some say almost guarantees admission: a relationship to a powerful politician or big donor. More...
Do Local Elections Matter?
Yes, Texas, local elections do matter. As mentioned in a previous article highlighting Irving’s tax-payer funded giveaway, Texas has the second highest local debt per person ($7,500), more than California ($6,469), a state drunk on lavish public pensions and rock-star...
TEA’s new school ratings “need improvement”
Today I detailed for listeners all the schools that did not meet the state’s new so-called accountability standards. It was easy to do in a half-hour because the “standards” are so low, and the new reporting system so vague, that few schools show up as not having “met...