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Houston ISD Assistant Principal Charged With Sexually Assaulting Former Student
Assistant Principal Bryan Tigner was placed on leave after the district learned of the incident.
Logic and Accuracy Tests Cleared Dallas County Voting Machines
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirms significant progress made in Dallas County election integrity investigation.
Ag Commissioner Miller Signs Executive Order To Use Water From the Rio Grande
The executive order allows the agriculture industry to take water from the Rio Grande.
Austin to Vote on Establishing Sex Offender ‘Buffer Zones’ Near Schools
The effort is sponsored by conservative City Councilmember Mackenzie Kelly.
The Archive
Duncan on statewide school property tax
On yesterday's Pratt on Texas, Senate State Affairs chairman Robert Duncan, SD28, explained his position on a statewide, as opposed to the existing local, property tax for public education funding. The total interview is about 10 minutes long. You can listen here:...
Education Spending: Texas vs. California
We Texans love to compare ourselves with California; we have created more private sector jobs, have a lower tax burden and lower unemployment rate, and folks are leaving the formerly 'Golden' State in droves to seek Lone Star prosperity. Without a doubt, there is much...
Jump-Start the Volt?
One more industry is about to affix itself to the taxpayer's already-abused wallet. The City of Austin is looking at plans to subsidize electric car charging stations, providing charge-ups on the taxpayer dime via the federal government. This week the City of Austin...
An Open Letter to Parents
As you know, due to the projected reduction in tax revenues from the recent economic crisis, Texas must reduce the size of its $87 billion biennial budget by approximately $15 billion. Currently, 40% of Texas’ budget is dedicated to funding public and higher...
SB600: Typical Liberal Fear Mongering
On Friday, February 11, freshman State Senator Jose Rodriguez (D – El Paso) filed SB600 which is basically the antithesis of Arizona’s SB1070 and then some. If passed, which I highly doubt (it’ll be lucky if it’s even assigned to a committee), SB600 would prohibit...
“Sonogram Bill” Vote Coming Soon – Senate Dems Divided
While I typically do not agree with Democrats, I completely believe in giving credit where it is due. When it comes to the “sonogram bill” making its way through the Texas Senate, I’d like to thank the three Democrats who have stood by their faith and values rather...
Surveying The Art Of Lost Money
Is there an art to losing track of the taxpayers' money: just ask the Texas Arts Commission. Texas Watchdog's Mark Lisheron reminds us that the agency "was criticized for a longstanding inability to keep track of its funding" in a report by the state auditor. In the...
Running to Government brings less Liberty
This past weekend the Associated Press reported that the “father of a Texas A&M junior who died of bacterial meningitis says he plans to push the Legislature to require that all students at Texas universities be vaccinated against the fast-moving infection.” His son...
Committee Assignments . . . Finally!
Being a political novice, I didn’t know that assigning House committees would take this long, but then again, there are 37 freshmen in the Texas House. Things were already going well in Texas when Republicans achieved a supermajority in the House with 101 members out...