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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.
Laredo Educator Arrested for Production of Child Pornography
Carlos Jobany Castaneda Lechuga was a lecturer at Texas A&M International University, but has since been removed from the staff directory.
Local Archive
Feds want to preserve river flow where it doesn’t flow – for 2 minnows
The War on Texas continues with the placing of two little minnows above the needs of man. The Feds are considering placing the sharpnose shiner and smalleye shiner, which live only in prairie streams in the arid upper Brazos River watershed, on the Endangered Species...
TAB’s Hammond disdainful of an engaged public
“This is a stopgap bill, I don’t care how we cut it,” said Rep. Phil Stephenson, R-Wharton, about the transportation funding deal passed by the Texas House and Senate on Monday night. The bill, which puts in serious jeopardy our saving money to the rainy day fund,...
Irving: Public Cost, Private Benefit
After squandering $23 million in unaudited expenses without laying a single brick, the ousted developer of a proposed “entertainment center” is in a lawsuit with the City of Irving. Meanwhile, city leaders are considering the approval of a second development agreement...
Sense Prevails in Northside ISD
Remember this, the microchip I.D. program being tested in Northside ISD in San Antonio? A quick refresher from the November 2012 AP story: Starting [Fall 2012], the fourth-largest school district in Texas is experimenting with "locator" chips in student ID badges on...
Moronic: Texas transportation funding plan
There is an issue being debated in second called session of the 83rd Texas Legislature that will affect us in the pocketbook and politically for our foreseeable future. It has to do with a terrible way of funding spending growth for state transportation projects. Joe...
The Actual War on Women in Texas
Hey, did you know there's a war on women being waged in Texas? The media says so, leftists in orange shirts say so, the Democrat Twitterati say so. Must be true. In the last several weeks, a woman has taken up her pink shoes and declared that she speaks for all...
Texas GOP senators surrender Step by Ugly Step
At the end of the first called session of the 83rd Texas Legislature, Texas Democrats demonstrated Tuesday night and Wednesday morning what those of us who are not burdened with self-enforced ignorance have always known about the Left: The Rule of Law and all other...
Living the Good Life on Taxpayers’ Dime
Wednesday, state district court Judge John Dietz announced a new six-week school finance trial that will begin in January of 2014. As this trial drags on, and Texas school districts continually screech that they are in desperate need of more funding, one district is...
Legislators feed bad management at TxDOT
“We need to be realistic with the taxpayers … and tell them it’s going to take more money to fix this problem,” said Sen. Kevin Eltife of Tyler. Eltife and other senators claim that we’ve refused to pass enough taxes to pay for a modern road system and have voted for...