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Potential Candidates Line Up for Texas House Race in Panhandle
The list of possible contenders to replace State Rep. Four Price continues to grow.
State Rep. Harrison Requests Investigation Into Texas A&M’s Payout
Harrison’s request follows the university’s decision to pay DEI proponent Kathleen McElroy—who voluntarily ended employment negotiations—$1 million.
Tarrant Appraisal District Gives Troubled Chief a ‘Vote of Confidence’
Following a 90-day probation, the board voted 3-2 to keep Jeff Law.
Mealer Claims 32K ‘Illegal Ballots’ Counted in Contested Harris County Election
Mealer, a Republican, lost her 2022 race against Democrat County Judge Hidalgo by 18,183 votes.
The Archive
Texas Democrats fail to deter another party switcher
On Monday I reported on Pratt on Texas, from the Rio Grande Gardian, that Kingsville state representative, J.M. Lozano, planned to leave the Democrat Party and run in the Republican Primary for re-election to the state house seat he currently holds. George P. Bush and...
Budget gimmicks hide behind lack of transparency
In the coming months, state agencies will begin submitting their spending requests to the Legislative Budget Board as part of their Legislative Appropriations Requests for the 2014-2015 biennium budget. These requests will include the use of general revenue dedicated...
Keeping our focus against the Obama machine
On Sunday's Meet the Press, host David Gregory led his interview with Newt Gingrich with a question about Rush Limbaugh and contraception. Gingrich rightly took Gregory to task for letting the conversation go off the rails from the get-go; Gregory was buying into and...
Miscellaneous Waste in Elgin Middle School
How many breakfast tacos does it take to raise test scores? That’s a question parents should be asking Elgin Middle School administrators. They’ve been siphoning funds designated for educational expenses in order to feed themselves and their staff, while the district...
Would Today’s GOP Back Sam Houston?
Most Americans know about the brave group of Texans who met 176 years ago at Washington-on-the-Brazos to demand their God-given freedoms from a despot named Santa Anna, who was almost as unpopular in Mexico as in Texas. But on college campuses nationwide,...
Home-rule could be path to efficiency
Everybody is in agreement: the Texas school finance system is broken and in need of a major overhaul. Spending on the Foundation School Program has grown by 268% since 1987 and spending per pupil has grown by 141% since 1987, and in the same period, student enrollment...
$20 million on iPads from district suing state
What if your school district had joined a lawsuit against the state, arguing that it was receiving insufficient funding under the current school finance system...and then announced that it would provide iPod Touches and iPads to students at the stunning cost of $20...
Knock-Off Design & Over Budget
Well, you gotta hand it to Dallas politicians and the team at TxDOT: they not only paid a premium for an artsy, one-of-a-kind bridge that's coming in far over budget, but it turns out the bridge isn't all that original, either. And neither is the wasteful hit to the...
In defense of outsourcing entertainment
Small-town America, the collective memory that is often embellished, had a unique function that some believe should be carried over as governments grow ever larger and more intrusive. Providing entertainment, or beauty, or other aesthetic pleasure could be a viable...