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Montgomery County Judge to Cut Salary by Over $20,000

While most politicians raise their own bloated salaries at almost any opportunity, an official in Montgomery County is doing the opposite. One of newly elected County Judge Mark Keough’s first acts in office will be to cut his own salary.Keough has placed...

Amarillo Turns on the Incentive Spigot

Amarillo city officials are reaching into the pockets of taxpayers and businesses to subsidize a local company. These officials claim this will create wealth, but it’s clear that it simply redistributes it. Last month, the City of Amarillo gave approval for the...

Dallas Morning Schadenfreude

The irony is delicious. For the last four years, the Dallas Morning News has been on a jihad against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Over their boisterous objections, Texans re-elected Paxton in November. And today it was announced they were slashing their...

United Fort Worth Targets Fort Worth City Council

The leftist activist group United Fort Worth, which organized the failed protests to pressure the City of Fort Worth into suing to block Texas' sanctuary cities law, is making good on their promise to challenge city council members. According to sources, UFW has...

Councilman Shafi Sounds Alarm for Tarrant GOP

“If we aren’t growing, we’re dying,” Southlake Councilman Shahid Shafi warned the Northeast Tarrant County Young Republican Club on Thursday night in Grapevine. A naturalized American citizen from Pakistan and practicing board-certified medical surgeon, Dr. Shafi has...

Unions Reforming Their Own Dues Collection Method

Government collection of union dues has been a hot-button issue in at least the past two legislative sessions and is bound to rear its head again, especially now that many more public employee unions have willingly transferred their members to a private dues...

TEXRail Takes Taxpayers for a Ride

Residents in Fort Worth, Grapevine, or anywhere else in America are paying for a train ride whether they want one or not. The brand new TEXRail train line opened this month, which runs from downtown Fort Worth, through Grapevine, to the DFW Airport. Trinity Metro Vice...

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What are the Real House Deadlines?

With the 86th legislative session just around the corner, it is important that activists know the important real deadlines they’ll need to confront in order to ensure bills they are backing actually pass. Under the Texas Constitution, bills and constitutional...

Haslet Fleeced Taxpayers

Last month, the City of Haslet’s deep dive into local taxpayers’ wallets bore fruit when Amazon announced they would be building their new regional air hub at Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport. While Mayor Bob Golden talked up what an “awesome partner” Amazon has been for...

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