The Latest
TLR Says Paxton Impeachment Charges Should Not Be Dismissed
In the same statement, the organization denied being involved in House impeachment proceedings earlier this year.
State Troopers Rescue Abandoned Children Along Texas-Mexico Border
A DPS spokesman said troopers have recovered four abandoned children in a 24-hour period.
University of Houston To Close DEI and LGBT Offices
A university official says ‘large majority’ of programming will remain.
Amarillo City Council Fires City Manager
In a unanimous vote, the Amarillo City Council voted to cut ties with the city manager.
The Archive
What Is Tommy Merritt Hiding?
What good is a candidate forum that takes place after most voters have already cast their ballot? That’s a question that Tommy Merritt didn’t seem to ask. He recently proposed holding four candidate forums with Taxpayer Champion David Simpson after early primary...
Brand New Year, Same Old Senator
The New Year typically brings in ambitious resolutions of self-improvement and positive change, but more often than not those resolutions fall by the wayside just as quickly as they are made. Texans shouldn’t expect anything different from Senator Jeff Wentworth,...
Some Texas Wind Energy advocates sound quite Left-wing
KTAB in Abilene reported that “Sweetwater fights to extend wind energy tax cuts”. The story quotes the city’s mayor, Greg Wortham, pushing for Congress to pick winners and losers by extending federal tax credits to do what the free market will not: support wind energy...
School finance lawsuit, or coal in taxpayers’ stockings?
Just in time for the holidays, Texas' largest school districts filed the fourth and largest lawsuit on school finance just yesterday. The timing was impeccable, really. Every political hack in the state was already on vacation, the only reason people read newspapers...
Crime Can Pay for Legislators
That Texas’ part-time legislators are eligible for a lucrative pension is a scandal in itself, made worse when one realizes even pleading guilty to a felony for their official actions doesn’t dent their lifetime payout. The dirty little secret in Austin is that crime...
Jason Isaac Endorsed by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Hays County freshman should be re-elected to Texas House in '12 AUSTIN, Texas -- State Rep. Jason Isaac of Dripping Springs received the endorsement today of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. "Throughout the legislative session, Jason Isaac did what he said he would...
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility Endorses Ken Sheets
Dallas freshman should be re-elected to Texas House in '12. AUSTIN, Texas -- State Rep. Kenneth Sheets of Dallas received the endorsement today of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. "Kenneth Sheets campaigned as a conservative, and on vote after vote in the legislature...
Charging Cars, Draining Taxpayers
San Antonio can’t seem to help itself. Every time the City of Austin comes up with a way to waste tax dollars, they have to have one too. This time, San Antonio wants to add more electric-car charging stations around the city… just like Austin did months ago. We...
Tan Parker Endorsed by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Flower Mound conservative deserves re-election in 2012. AUSTIN, Texas -- State Rep. Tan Parker of Flower Mound was endorsed for re-election today by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. "On issue after issue, Tan Parker has proven himself to be a commonsense conservative...