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Amarillo Police Chief Suspended After Supporting Child-Predator High School Coach
Chief Martin Birkenfeld asked a judge to consider Perryton ISD football coach Cole Underwood’s “redeeming qualities.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Exposes Illicit Lottery Ticket Reseller After $83M Jackpot Win
The Texas Lottery is corrupt.
‘The Man Behind the Curtain’: Democrat Obama Lawyer Retains Power in Texas House
Hugh Brady is still advising the Texas House under a new title: “parliamentary counsel.”
House Committee Unilaterally Raises Office Budgets, Gives Democrat Vice Chairs $3.6M in New Pay
The House Administration Committee unanimously approved increased office budgets, including a new stipend for Democrat vice chairs.
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Commentary: San Antonio’s Environmental Plan Leaves Residents in the Dark
Mayor Ron Nirenberg announced that San Antonio’s City Council decided to delay the vote on the “Climate Action & Adaptation Plan” until the fall—a decision sure to make the CAAP a hot-button issue for the upcoming May election. Discussions over the CAAP have taken...
For Whom the Bell Tolls: House Committee Deadline This Week
As the final month of the legislative session approaches, lawmakers have been ramping up their activity. Bills are being voted out of committee following hearings and public testimony, and legislation is being voted out of one chamber to be considered in the other....
Commentary: Mega Transit Agency in Valley Can’t Fix What’s Wrong with Transit Failures
Frustrated by our lack of progress on limited-government, conservative principles in this session of the Texas Legislature? When you see which transportation bills are moving over others, it’s hard to fathom how a bill to create a massive new transit bureaucracy that...
DPS Footage Contradicts Media Narrative Regarding Constitutional Carry Advocate
Earlier this month, Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen made waves by declaring constitutional carry legislation “dead” after alleging that a gun rights activist attempted to visit his home in a threatening manner while he was away. Now new body-cam footage obtained...
Commentary: Voters Want Promise Keepers
Republican lawmakers should be very concerned. Come November 2020, Texans will be showing up to vote for the greatest promise-keeping politician in modern U.S. history. Love him or hate him, President Donald Trump has been a man of his political word. Taxes cut,...
Commentary: Texas Moves to Legalize Industrial Hemp
The Texas Department of Health Services has declassified industrial hemp as a Schedule 1 drug. Before the move by Texas DHS, hemp—which is most commonly used as a fiber in the making of rope, fabric, and building material—shared a classification with cocaine,...
Taxpayers May Finally Get Answers on Billion-Dollar Bungle
Finally, the taxpayers in Fort Worth may find out just how badly they were burnt on a real estate development project they were told was for flood control in their city. Panther Island, which Texas Scorecard has previously reported on, is a project run by the Trinity...
Will Frisco Voters OK Adding $345M to City’s Billion-Dollar Debt?
Voters in fast-growing Frisco—which has racked up one of the highest amounts of tax-supported debt of any city in Texas and consistently raises homeowners’ property tax bills year after year—will decide if the city can add to its billion-dollar debt and hike...
Pro-Life Texans Testify to Close Late-Term Abortion Loophole
The Texas House finally held a public hearing on one of the pro-life movement’s top priorities Wednesday evening: closing a loophole in the state’s ban on abortions after the 20-week mark of a pregnancy. The hearing, held by the Texas House Committee on State Affairs,...