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Lawmaker Demands Answers From Texas A&M Over $1M Payout
State Rep. Brian Harrison says his constituents should not have to pay a DEI proponent a million dollars.
George Soros Funds Race-centered Journalism at UT Austin
Billionaire corporations seek to influence the next generation of journalists.
Fort Worth ISD Refuses to Remove Lewd Book From Libraries
While FWISD has been allegedly working to remove several sexually explicit books from their school libraries, they are refusing to remove this one.
Harris County Officials Push Affirmative Action Policies
Harris County has authorized policies that encourage departments to award contracts based on race and gender rather than merit.
The Archive
Fiscal Irresponsibility At TEA?
A report issued by the Office of the Inspector General at the Texas Education Agency has shed light on a contracting process ripe for fraud and abuse. It is alleged that individuals received large subcontracts from one of the Education Service Centers, divisions of...
Cutting Fat With Good Feelings
From the "Oh, What a Big Surprise Department," comes news that spending billions of taxpayer dollars on "nutrition education" has been a failure. The Associated Press article makes it clear that about the only thing accomplished was making kids feel good about singing...
Dallas Shopping Centers Ring Up Lawsuit Against Apprisal District
According to a Dallas Business Journal article , the owners of several Dallas-area shopping centers, including Highland Park Village and Preston Trail Plaza, are suing the Dallas Central Appraisal District and the Dallas Appraisal Review Board, saying the method the...
Too Much Dust, Not Enough Results
Besides just bad philosophy, one of the worst contributors to government growth is our misplaced emphasis on defining success by activity. When you stand on the plains and look to the horizon, a great cloud of dust can be either an army purposefully on the move, or a...
Texas Hotel Taxes Enough to Make You Lose Sleep
Found this revealing tidbit on the Austin American-Statesman's entertainment pages: Those hotel occupancy taxes in Texas’ big cities are so high they’ll give you a nosebleed. Example: My $279 stay at the lovely Granduca Hotel in Houston a few days ago...
Governor Signs Pro-Taxpayer Legislation Into Law
In signing two pieces of legislation today, Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Legislature delivered on two elements of the sound fiscal agenda promoted by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and supported by thousands of voters and taxpayers. The governor today announced...
Legislature Bombs In Fiscal Rating
Just how did the legislative session go? We’ll be releasing a full legislative score card soon, but overall, this legislative session was a bust. The cumulative score of all members of the Texas House and Texas Senate, on fiscal issues, was an abysmal 52%. Meaning?...
Legislature Squandered Opportunity, But Taxpayers Ready For Action
Tearing Down Walls, Advancing Liberty
It was 20 years ago today, on June 12, 1987, that Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate, in West Berlin, and uttered perhaps the most important words of the 20th Century. He said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! ... Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall....