NEWS
Bill White & The Sweetheart Hurricane
Now that he is finally releasing his tax returns, we know what kind of information Bill White has been hiding from voters. While everyone else was suffering at the hands of Hurricane Rita, Mayor White was laying the groundwork for making a tidy profit.
Fighting Property Taxes Takes Big Clams
If you think your property taxes are bad, just wait until you’ve been assessed a $717,570 property tax liability for a container of frozen fish… that doesn’t exist. That’s the allegation made in a letter that crossed my desk. Sound fishy? Not to anyone who has dealt with local property taxes in Texas.
Texas First Lady Addresses Del Rio High School Graduates
On the evening of June 4th, I was at a graduation in my hometown of Del Rio, Texas. Tonight was extra special, not only because the First Lady of Texas, Anita Perry, was the commencement speaker, but because it was the largest graduating class in Del Rio history!
Local government tomfoolery from Austin to D.C.
Okay, ladies and germs. Let’s have a little civics lesson, shall we?
City Office of Lobbyist?
The city of Grapevine has come under fire for hiring lobbyist Fred Hill and now they’re stoking the flame. Last month the city conducted contract negotiations behind closed doors, disregarding the Texas Open Meetings Act. The city is compounding its sins by creating bigger and an ethically corrupt government position.
SBOE represents voters, not gov. officials
“Let’s hear more from Perry on SBOE” was the headline in a column by Jason Embry in the Austin-American Statesman. My question is: Why?
Why has, normally reliable-to-be-sane Jason Embry, now caved in to the left-wing empty rhetoric that has always been present about our State Board of Education?
Obama’s Race To The Bottom
In refusing to participate in the Obama Administration’s “Race to the Top” program earlier this week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is simultaneously standing up for our rights under the U.S. Constitution while ensuring our kids have a chance to really be at the top.
Course Management
Schools around Texas once again find themselves in the troughs of the summer budget writing process. Before the bell tolls in September some districts will be tapping reserve funds and making cuts others will try to raise taxes.
Racing Away With Your Money
How do you feel about being an “investor” in Formula One racing? Doesn’t really matter; the state of Texas went ahead and took your money in an attempt to get the London-based organization to authorize a race in Austin. If this sounds like just another excuse for folks to race off with your money, it is. And just in time for an historic budget shortfall, no less!
Bill White: Excluding Military Voters, But Welcoming Illegals?
Few things are more sacred in America, or empowering as individuals, than our vote. For some strange political calculus, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White has aggressively opposed voting rights for those serving in the military. Yet at the same time, he undermines the security of the ballot box by refusing to support stronger voter identification laws.
Once More To The Polls
For some lucky voters, the 2010 election season refuses to take a break. With primaries, run-offs, municipal elections, municipal run-offs, special elections and run-offs, some folks will be voting more in six months than many will do in several years. It doesn’t get much busier, or stranger, than in Senate District 22 where conservative Brian Birdwell is facing off against former-senator-turned-lobbyist David Sibley.
If flexible permitting doesn’t work, where are the numbers?
An Austin American-Statesman article elucidates upon the latest front on the Obama War on Texas. It begins this way: “In a letter dated Oct. 20, 1994, the director of a Texas