Remember when teachers worried about chewing gum under the desk? The question was "pocket knife" or "putty knife" in removing the problem. How quaint. Apparently the little darlings in the Dallas Independent School District are so poorly behaved the school district is...

People respond to leadership, especially when it is leadership driven by principles. It's always good to see people recognize a good thing when they've got it. And in Tarrant County, they know they've got a good legislator, who leads by principle. Early this evening I...

Irving ISD taxpayers are going to be voted on a $250 million bond in November that includes replacing laptop computers for every high school student. This is an example of mission creep - in years past parents were in charge of buying supplies for their students.  In...

The next time someone points to England as an example of anything other than a good place to get fish-and-chips, casually mention a study funded by their taxpayers. Girls, researchers there breathlessly announced this week, prefer pink. Sadly we don't have much to...

The Denton ISD school board has announced it will ask voters to approve a $282 million new bond initiative in November. Interestingly, $2 million of the proposal has nothing to do with students - it is to build a child care center for district employees. If this bond...

Do you hear that knocking at your door? It’s the taxman, and he wants more money. Pay up. It’s bad enough that appraisal creep and unrestrained spending is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of taxpayers’ take-home pay, but now comes word that local...