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Tarrant County Democrat Sheriff Candidate is Not a Registered Peace Officer in Texas
According to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, Democrat candidate Patrick Moses has not been awarded a state peace officer’s license.
Aggie Scorecard, Local, West Texas
West Texas A&M University Blocks Online Gambling Sites
The university’s president says predatory gambling is exploitative and has a negative impact on academic performance.
Round Rock School Board Trustee Alleges Board President Was Bribed
The latest in the saga of Round Rock ISD.
AG Paxton Files Emergency Motions Against ‘Unlawful’ Travis and Bexar County Voter Registration Programs
A partisan vendor’s attempt to register a deceased citizen to vote prompted Paxton’s supplemental motions.
Local Archive
Judge, You’ve Got a Deal..Revenue Caps for All Levels of Government
Milam County Judge Frank Summers has an interesting editorial this week in the Cameron County Herald. While he expresses mixed feelings on revenue caps, he ultimately says he'll support them if they apply to all levels of government, and that sounds good to us....
Superintendent Spend-n-Whine Fest
Houston had a lot of expensive whine this week -- from money-hungry superintendents intent on spending a lot more of your money. And they'll spend every dollar they can get. Since 2000, public school revenues have grown 60 percent, even though the student population...
Clearly The Fiscal Creek Is Rising
Taxpayers in Clear Creek Independent School District, in Galveston County, are facing a $9.2 million tax hike. The superintendent, with a straight face, tells the local newspaper the schools have "exercised significant restraint." Sounds nice, but that's not what the...
Relish This
As part of an effort to trim the county budget, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez is cutting condiments from the budget. Prisoners will have to go without mustard, ketchup, sweeteners and jelly -- saving taxpayers $150,000. Her office might also charge inmates for...
That’s Some Banjo Hall
Taxpayers in Midland and Odessa -- along with the rest of us -- are shelling out big bucks for a new "performing arts" center to be built between the two cities. The facility, which is described as standing "90 feet tall at its center, far surpassing the height of the...
French Fashion Show Tops Spring Branch ISD’s Wasteful Spending
Conservatives in Texas often talk about how wasteful our government school system can be, yet we rarely find a gem as perfectly flawed as two stories that appeared recently in the Houston Chronicle. On May 1, the Chronicle breathlessly reported “Spring Branch ISD...
News You Can Use
Readers of the Houston Chronicle's website now have a nifty tool: browse the pay of nearly every public employee in Houston and Harris County. Topping the payroll at $442,556 is HISD superintendent Abelardo Saavedra. Coming in a distant second is the "Chancellor...
Tax Sweat
One way to avoid listening to taxpayers is to simply keep them out of earshot. Take, for example, Collin County in north Texas. County commissioners there are going to take up discussion next week on a proposal to build a county-employees-only physical fitness...
Government Math
You gotta hand it to the bean-counters in Sugar Land, outside Houston -- they sure know how to sell an idea. They're trying to convince residents(presumably with success) that spending $18 million to get $13 million, over 25 years, is a good use of the taxpayers;...