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Let's say you're on the governing board of a city that has a lot of bad traffic congestion.  You know you have to do something about it, because your predecessors either didn't foresee the growth or they were trying, unsuccessfully, to deter it.  You have leftover...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...