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AG Paxton Sues Travis County Over Secretive Security Expenditures
The Office of the Attorney General claimed the Travis County Commissioners Court failed to provide proper notice or allow the public the opportunity to comment on the proposal.
Big Win for Whitesboro Citizens: No Property Tax Increase
Citizens convinced Whitesboro city officials to reverse course on a big property tax increase.
Catholic Charities of Fort Worth Partner Organization Has Islamic Terrorism Ties
The Islamic Circle of North America has ties to the Pakistani terrorist group Jamaat-e-Islami.
City of Dallas’ Budget to Help Aid LGBT, Race-based Events
The new budget will give the Office of Arts and Culture $20.6 million to facilitate multiple “cultural celebrations throughout the year.”
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Wrong, Costly, Bad
Our friends over at the Texas Association of Business this week released their scorecard for the legislative session. It's interesting to compare the best and the worst between their business-oriented list to TFR's Fiscal Responsibility Index. It shouldn't come as any...
Prop. 4: Discriminatory, Expensive, Unnecessary
Texans will soon be asked to transfer money from Texas’ Permanent Higher Education Fund to a new National Research University Fund. But voters should reject this constitutional amendment, Proposition 4, and reject the transfer of money. If anything, we should demand...
GreenChoice is no choice for Austin
Dr. Rosemary Edwards, chairman of the Travis County Republican Party, has an op-ed in today's Austin American-Statesman that you might find interesting, concerning the city's recent mandate on GreenChoice energy. From the op-ed: Our leaders in Austin are pushing their...
Another Czar … for Texas?
Because of a backlog on processing foodstamp applications, the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) recently "approved hiring up to 250 of the 650 workers and directed the commission to immediately fill 400 vacant jobs." Well enough. It's too much for now to go...
Why Texans Should Vote NO on Prop 4
I've held back on this because I wanted to give readers a chance to read the initial analysis of Proposition 4. There are a lot of arguments out there in favor of it (the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has their endorsement here). I think you need to know, Prop. 4 is a bad...
Info on Texas Constitution Amendment Election
There are 11 state constitutional amendments on the November 3 ballot. Early voting begins on Monday, October 19. If you are voting by mail (absentee voting), the last day to submit your mail-in ballot is Tuesday, October 27. The Secretary of State breaks down...
An Agency Out Of Control
It's hard to believe just how out-of-control the federal "International Boundary and Water Commission" is, if whistle-blower accounts and media reports are to believed. It's apparent the commission had very little oversight and too much power. A Texas Observer article...
Is Marriage Only An Economic Circumstance?
Regarding the ruling by a Dallas judge that Texas’ definition of marriage is unconstitutional, a listener wrote, “I must say that civil unions between two consenting adults (male or female, whatever combination as long as the number is two) SHOULD be legal in Texas....
Come And Take It!
It was 174 years ago, on Oct. 2, 1835, that the first battle in Texas’ war of independence was fought in Gonzales, appropriately over the possession of a cannon. The people had been given the cannon to protect themselves from Indian invasions, but the Mexican...