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Tarrant County GOP Chair Questions Mansfield City Council Over $86M Stadium
Mansfield council members say voters were informed about the potential uses of tax dollars and that there is no sinister activity taking place.
TTU Health Sciences Center Suspends Employee for ‘Antisemitic’ Posts
The Center is launching an investigation into Librarian Rudy Meixell.
Autistic Preschooler Left on Dallas ISD Bus for Entire School Day
The 4-year-old girl was found by another bus driver and treated for dehydration.
Houston ISD Girls’ School Employee Charged with Sexually Assaulting Student
Jesus Zamora worked at Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy at the time of the alleged assaults.
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Texas Monthly’s Liberal Best
The Texas Monthly Best & Worst lists are little more than a front for a left-wing ideological agendas. Remember who chooses the Best and Worst: liberal reporters anchored by editor Paul Burka. One of his lead writers, Patricia Kilday Hart, even wrote that the...
More Fiscally Conservative Legislature, But Still Failing
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility released its final ratings today for members of the 81st Texas Legislature. TFR President Michael Quinn Sullivan says that while the partisan gap narrowed, the ratings of individual House and Senate members show a more fiscally...
They’re Coming Back
Hide your wallet, change the locks on the doors and make sure you know where your kids are; the Legislature will be meeting in a special session this summer. What's so special about it? Looks like just another opportunity for mischief. Because of the Democratic...
Exhaust Options Before Raising Taxes
Arguing that the Metroplex and other high volume traffic areas do not need answers, and quickly, to major transportation quandaries is an untenable position. Equally untenable is simply hiking taxes and fees on families to fund the same bureaucracies already wasting...
A Tale Of Two Attitudes
Fort Worth and Dallas are just 30 miles apart, but the attitudes on the opinion pages of the two daily papers might as well be from different planets. Both papers strongly supported the gas tax hike and fee increase plans pushed by government-financed lobbyists. TFR...
So It’s Only Leadership When Texans Are Hurt?
Ever notice political "courage" is defined only as raising taxes and padding the pockets of special interests? It's apparently cowardice to actually demand responsibility and integrity, to make hard choices rather than pave problems with patronage. That's how...
Dallas Morning News Admits It Is Taxpayer Unfriendly
In a blog posting this afternoon, Dallas Morning News editorial writer Rodger Jones admits his position in support of heavy increases on gasoline and new motor vehicle fees isn't friendly to taxpayers. His admission came in a posting cheering on the pro-tax rally (no...
Texas Monthly’s Best As Texas’ Worst?
Most conservatives have in recent years come to suspect that Texas Monthly’s “Ten Best” legislators list is little more than a compilation of the biggest shills for big government. Now comes proof. In a May 26 posting on the “BurkaBlog,” Texas Monthly writer Patricia...
Locally Misinformed
Conservatives tend to think local government is better because it is, well, local. But is that a reasonable assumption, if the Local spending is hidden from view and bureaucrats don't accurately report results? I recently gave a speech in which the topic of education...