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Texas Senators Consider Requiring Some Local Law Enforcement To Assist in Deportations
State Sen. Charles Schwertner’s measure would mandate over 40 Texas counties join an ICE program.
Y’All Answered: SNAP for Snacks?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
AG Paxton: District Courts Cannot Order Changes of Biological Sex on Driver’s Licenses
Attorney General Paxton’s order says that state agencies should correct driver’s licenses or birth certificates “unlawfully” altered to conform with a person’s self-identified gender.
Galveston County Sheriff Sues Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement had recommended revoking Sheriff Jimmy Fullen’s peace officer’s license.
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Jindal Backs School Choice in Op-ed
Last week, former U.S. Congressman and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal appeared in the Wall Street Journal opinion pages to offer a defense of school choice on moral grounds. Jindal begins by discussing the benefits that parents immediately recognize, such as better...
School Districts Ask Voters for Higher Property Taxes
School districts across Texas are in the process of setting budgets for the next school year. Many districts are also looking to raise property taxes to pay for budgeted spending increases — but they need voter approval. Several school boards in the Dallas-Fort Worth...
Thomas Warren: The Amarillo Pioneer
When the 2016 presidential election drew national attention to “fake news” and the “D.C. swamp,” a young man in Amarillo was taking on his own city’s entrenched media and local swamp. “Every other news source in Amarillo is beholden to some special interest...
A State Budget Primer – Part I: Strategic Vision and Planning
As the state inches closer to the next legislative session, the budget process is already underway. The biennial budget is technically a four-year project, beginning largely with the request for and submission of agency strategic plans and legislative appropriations...
Now What?
Each Independence Day I think of my ancestor Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Two centuries and numerous generations later, I take great inspiration from what he and his colleagues did in the summer of 1776. Just imagine how different the...
Freestone County Set to Stop Forced Annexation
Citizens in four Texas counties have successfully submitted petitions to stop forced annexation within their county borders. Freestone County residents are the latest – and more may be joining them. Volunteers organized as Stop Forced Annexation Freestone County began...
Leftist Candidate Wins Mexican Presidential Election
With an overwhelming fifty-three percent of the vote among half a dozen candidates, Andres Manuel López Obrador declared victory in Mexico’s Presidential Election Sunday night. During an election season marred by the murder of over 130 political candidates and...
Texas Must Stand Up to TSA’s Abusive Procedures
With the Independence Day holiday falling in the middle of this week, many Texans will be taking to the skies to travel and visit loved ones, friends, or just vacation in what is expected to be one of the busiest travel seasons on record. But before being able to...
Cloud Wins Special
Perhaps the most unique special election from a long series of 2017-18 irregular voting contests just wrapped up this weekend in southeast Texas, capping a subdued political battle that attracted little national attention. Former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus...