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Katy ISD Board to Consider New Gender Policy
The new policy would prohibit staff from providing instructional materials on gender ideology and focus on parental authority.
Richardson ISD Wins Grant to Promote ‘LGBTQ+ Identity’ in Schools
The district is using the grant money to revive its on-campus Gay-Straight Alliance club, now known as the Gender & Sexuality Alliance.
Child Gender Mutilation Ban Set to Go Into Effect Despite Lawsuit
The Office of the Attorney General has appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.
Houston Teacher Accused of Recording Sex Acts with Student
KIPP East End High School teacher, Over Santiago Garcia Lopez, also worked as a political consultant.
The Archive
Martinez Fischer, Holder, Teen a sick lot on Voter ID
My guess is still that the Texas Voter ID issue will not be settled until appeals are played out but, the trial in DC has been interesting. First, the ultra-liberal Democrat state rep. who chairs one of the Texas House' hyphenated caucuses, Trey Martinez Fischer of...
The Politics of Fire
As a student of government and politics junkie, I am aware of how many responsibilities the President of the United States bears. However, when I learned that President Obama was planning a trip to Colorado to tour the wildfire damage there, I was instantly...
Rhyming Away Your Tax Dollars
What can $6,000 of your tax dollars and two rappers from California make? A whole lot of waste. That’s exactly what BikeTexas produced with a new video promoting bicycle safety on college campuses. It’s hard to believe such a taxpayer-funded video could be produced...
Welcome to the choir, AAS Ed Board
It is so rare that one of the flagship newspaper editorial boards in Texas tries to talk sense to government that we should give them credit when they do. Case in point: today's editorial "Pull back on rapid tax increases" in the Austin American-Statesman. There is...
Circuit of the Americas Butters Up Austin Officials
Where the Travis County Commissioners dare not tread, the Austin City Council rushes in blindly! The city voted to spend about $5600 on airfare for the otherwise all-expenses paid trip, and they're sending Mayor Lee Leffingwell, city manager Marc Ott, Police Chief...
SCOTUS Verifies: Individual Mandate IS a Tax
The Supreme Court of the United States has issued their ruling on the federal health care law known as ObamaCare. In an absolute shocker, they tell us that the individual mandate is Constitutional, because it is a tax. But, didn't President Obama swear up and down...
Should the Legislature ensure we have enough insurance agents?
Morris Communications' Austin bureau writer Enrique Rangel filed a story that contained the following: “In another joint hearing, the House Agriculture & Livestock and Border & Intergovernmental Affairs committees will discuss the adequacy of access to...
City of Austin Motto: “Ready, Set, SPEND!”
Formula One hasn't even arrived officially, and it's already going to cost taxpayers even more than originally stated. The City of Austin (the same city that couldn't afford to put on the $1 million Trail of Lights) is seriously considering dropping $5.5 million for...
When the Tax-Hikers Finally Went Too Far
Imagine that your local library district, or whichever of your taxing entities funds the library, asked for 0.7% tax increase. Imagine next that a group of concerned taxpayers (the dreaded Tea Party) formed a coalition to defeat said tax increase. And further...