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Y’All Answered: Good Deal for Public Education Spending?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Lawmakers File Statewide Ban on DEI Offices in Government Entities
While the ban on DEI offices in Texas currently only covers public universities, new legislation would expand it to most government entities.
Proposal Mandates Parental Notification if Students Exhibits Gender Confusion or Self-harms
The proposal defines self-harm as acts of self-injury or mutilation, including altering one’s biological sex.
Parents Win: Canyon ISD Puts Bibles Back in School Libraries
Texas legislators blasted the district’s superintendent, who blamed the Bible removals on a law prohibiting sexually explicit content.
The Archive
Field of Waste
Who needs an education when you can have a professional soccer field? That seems to the mentality of the San Antonio ISD board of trustees, given they just voted to spend $3 million more to build a professional-size field at Alamo Stadium despite participating in a...
Commuter Rail is a California-Sized Mistake
When the State of California says it’s too expensive, it should grab your attention. A recent study conducted by a group of experts determined that California taxpayers can’t afford a new high-speed rail system – but that news is unlikely to stop the calls for...
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...