Despite promises to the contrary, not only have Washington liberals been non-transparent in the passage of the federal takeover of the healthcare industry, they’re now being equally secretive in its implementation. President Obama’s secretary of health and human services was in Texas for an invite-only community discussion. I bet your invitation was lost in the mail, too.

A little over a week ago, Mayor Charles England of Grand Prairie, a self-proclaimed Republican, announced he supports locating a full-scale casino-hotel in his community. This is on top of his endorsement of Bill White, the Democratic nominee for governor. Is this a case of the tree moving toward the fallen apple?

In a shake-up of senatorial proportions, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has reorganized several committees in the Texas Senate. Most notably reorganized out of a job is tax-hike proponent John Carona (R-Dallas), who will no longer helm the powerful Transportation Committee.

On the heels of being rejected for the chancellorship of the Texas State University System, state Sen. Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio) now says he’s under serious consideration for an unspecified vice chancellor’s position with the Texas A&M University System, and may soon quit the Texas Senate. But apparently not before leaving the taxpayers with a hefty bill.

Here’s what the Beaumont Enterprise editors had to say this week about Texas university faculty who are grumbling

It seems that State Rep. Mark Strama (D-50) has been getting credit for things he did not do.

School officials in north Texas want to spend $1 million buying the six-month-old iPad from Apple for middle school students. But they don’t want to pay for it; they want state taxpayers to pick up the tab for what is undoubtedly a cool toy — but not an academic tool. This is a classic case of school i-waste.