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Ex-Lobbying Czar Named Interim Amarillo City Manager
Andrew Freeman has been selected by the Amarillo City Council to serve as the city’s interim city manager.
Dan Patrick: Dade Phelan Needs to Be a Man, Admit Paxton Impeachment Was Wrong
Since AG Ken Paxton was acquitted on Saturday, Patrick has been critical of the House-led impeachment.
Parents Prepare for Special Session on Education
Texas Education 911 says parents were “left out” of the legislature’s school reform discussions.
Unintended Consequences?
The Paxton impeachment may have changed the dynamics in the Texas Legislature.
The Archive
Going Down
There is a common question being fearfully contemplated by establishment Republicans in these early days of the 2016 accountability season: “Do I want to go down fighting?” But make no mistake: they know they are going down. Some prefer retirement to an out-right...
Josh Murray: Small-Town Hero
Josh Murray is an Army veteran and activist whose current fight shows us that even in a small town elected officials who aren’t held accountable, will use their power to take advantage of taxpayers. Born in Germany but raised in Garland, Texas, Murray comes from a...
Who is Responsible for the Paxton Probe?
As special prosecutors gear up to drag Attorney General Ken Paxton through the same mud as former Gov. Rick Perry and whistleblowing UT Regent Wallace Hall, questions arise as to who exactly is responsible for the attacks. On the surface, the leftist watchdog group...
Parker Plays Politics with Petitions
After the ongoing and predictably divisive battle surrounding Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance (ERO), one would expect a just and representative government to identify the very flaws that originally caused the contention. One would also expect an effort from officials...
The Criminalization of Politics
There is a dangerous trend in the United States toward the criminalization of politics, and it is infecting Texas as well. It may have hit its nadir in Wisconsin, where police dispatched by a pro-union Democrat special prosecutor subjected conservative activists...
A Modest Proposal for Bill Powers’ Salary
The Texas Bureau of Watchdog.org is at it again, this time breaking the news that former University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers will be entitled to return to UT Law school at a hefty salary. Due to his contract with the University, Powers will return to...
They Tried to Do it Here
While the speech regulators in Wisconsin resorted to SWAT teams and pre-dawn paramilitary-style raids, bureaucrats in Texas have so far limited their abuses to the administrative and civil courts system. However, their intentions are exactly the same. The Government...
No Honest Denials of the Depth of UT Admissions Scandal
We now know that a number of politicians, including Texas House Speaker Joe Straus and former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison abused the admissions system at The University of Texas at Austin to secure the admission of under-qualified students connected to donors and...
Will Texas Legislators Protect Organ-Trafficking Abortionists Next Session?
Over the past few weeks Texans have been horrified by gruesome revelations concerning Planned Parenthood trafficking the body parts of aborted babies. Unfortunately, if some members of the Texas House had their way, investigative journalism would have become an...