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Historic South Texas Ranch Tussles With TxDOT’s ‘Unnecessary’ Highway Expansion
The Texas Department of Transportation is reportedly working to expand U.S. Highway 83 in Zapata County, which would cut into a 200-year-old South Texas ranch.
Admitted Mail Ballot Fraudster Charged in Jury Summons Scam
Zul Mohamed, who admitted to voter fraud in his 2020 mayoral election, faces new charges of sending fake jury notices for the date of his trial.
Keller ISD Board Faces Massive Community Backlash Over Proposal to Split District
During Thursday night’s special board meeting, hundreds in the community spoke out against the proposal.
Cy-Fair ISD Adopts Policy Rejecting Gender Ideology, Affirming Parental Rights
The policy rejects “gender ideology” and “gender fluidity” in educational materials, classroom discussions, instructional tools, and district-sponsored extracurricular activities.
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Miscellaneous Waste in Elgin Middle School
How many breakfast tacos does it take to raise test scores? That’s a question parents should be asking Elgin Middle School administrators. They’ve been siphoning funds designated for educational expenses in order to feed themselves and their staff, while the district...
Would Today’s GOP Back Sam Houston?
Most Americans know about the brave group of Texans who met 176 years ago at Washington-on-the-Brazos to demand their God-given freedoms from a despot named Santa Anna, who was almost as unpopular in Mexico as in Texas. But on college campuses nationwide,...
Home-rule could be path to efficiency
Everybody is in agreement: the Texas school finance system is broken and in need of a major overhaul. Spending on the Foundation School Program has grown by 268% since 1987 and spending per pupil has grown by 141% since 1987, and in the same period, student enrollment...
$20 million on iPads from district suing state
What if your school district had joined a lawsuit against the state, arguing that it was receiving insufficient funding under the current school finance system...and then announced that it would provide iPod Touches and iPads to students at the stunning cost of $20...
Knock-Off Design & Over Budget
Well, you gotta hand it to Dallas politicians and the team at TxDOT: they not only paid a premium for an artsy, one-of-a-kind bridge that's coming in far over budget, but it turns out the bridge isn't all that original, either. And neither is the wasteful hit to the...
In defense of outsourcing entertainment
Small-town America, the collective memory that is often embellished, had a unique function that some believe should be carried over as governments grow ever larger and more intrusive. Providing entertainment, or beauty, or other aesthetic pleasure could be a viable...
New school lawsuit doesn’t assume money is the only issue
Now this is more like it. A lawsuit about Texas schools that focuses on what’s wrong, instead of how to throw more money at the system: The lawsuit represents a new angle on the funding issue — one that focuses not on whether the state adequately pays for schools but...
Todd Smith’s Electoral Limbo
State Representative Todd Smith appears to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. After deciding not to run for the Texas Senate against one or more conservative colleagues, Smith’s re-election outlook for his current position in the Texas House doesn’t look so...
Campus carry ban is immoral, creates victims
KFYO radio reported the following last week: “Oklahoma police now have a confession from a man that he had sexually assaulted more than a dozen women from four different states. One was a student at Texas Tech. Robert Bruce told police last month that he raped women...