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Houston Audit Identifies Inefficiencies Across Departments
Auditors found misuse and abuse, but mostly bloated bureaucracy.
Lt. Gov. Patrick: House Speaker Burrows Will Pass Bail Reform Measures
A Senate committee considered and eventually passed several proposed measures and constitutional amendments on bail reform today.
Report: Texas Must Secure ‘Critical Infrastructure’
Texans face a rapidly changing battlespace.
Former Barbers Hill ISD Teacher Arrested a Year After Indictment for Sex With Student
Molly Colleen Spears was indicted in February 2024 for having sexual intercourse with a male student at Barbers Hill High School.
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Fort Worth ISD Exposed for Far-Left Agenda
Nationwide, schools make it a point to teach students of age about human sexuality. Parents are notified, in advance, via a Notice to Provide Human Sexuality Instruction, that their students will be taught this material and have the ability to opt out of the...
Border Policy and the Sinister Element
Over the past two weeks, a chorus of voices has demanded an end to a policy that has seen adults and children separated at the border as they await processing by immigration officials. Across the mainstream news media, immigration officials are depicted as...
President Trump and Texas Attorney General Take Aim at Obamacare
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has made a name from his principled opposition to a number of former President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions and legislative agenda items. As Texas’ chief legal officer, he has been instrumental in key legal fights...
Byron Cook Censured by Texas GOP
The Republican Party of Texas officially passed a resolution censuring retiring State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana) for his repeated defiance of the core principles of the party. The resolution was passed by a vote of the full body of delegates to the 2018 Texas GOP...
Waco Property Taxes Are Skyrocketing
Property taxes for many Waco homeowners are skyrocketing. This is largely due to home appraisals in some parts of Waco increasing dramatically. In this environment, local city, county, and school officials should be reducing property tax rates aggressively to offset...
Radical Bureaucrat Named to Top-Level UT Position
After the departure of Dr. Gregory Vincent last year, Dr. Leonard N. Moore has been named the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. This position, which Moore held in an interim capacity since last July, entails...
Texas Republicans Rally Around Conservative Platform
SAN ANTONIO-- This past weekend, Texas Republicans completed their work on a conservative party platform, a 331 item document detailing their stance on issues across the board. The culmination of a week-long process that involved hard work by members of the committee...
Metroplex Local Runoff Results
Nearly 20 local entities in and around the Metroplex held local city and school board runoff elections on June 16. Below are unofficial results of runoff races in the region, by county. An asterisk denotes an incumbent. “TFR” indicates a candidate endorsed by Texans...
James Dickey Re-Elected as Texas GOP Chair
In a landslide victory, Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey won re-election at the Texas GOP’s convention in San Antonio. Dickey originally took the position of RPT chairman last year when former chairman Tom Mechler suddenly retired, leaving a vacancy...