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Lake Travis Is Latest School District Facing Superintendent Shake-up
Mysterious misconduct allegations are prompting Texas school districts to put their top administrators on leave.
Wells Fargo Exits Net-Zero Banking Alliance After Texas Probe Into Anti-Energy Policies
Attorney General Paxton has ended a review of the bank and allowed state governmental entities to do business with Wells Fargo again.
Sources: Dennis Bonnen Spied on Democrat Caucus Meetings on Behalf of Dustin Burrows
A Democrat lawmaker aligned with Burrows facilitated Bonnen’s secret participation.
Abbott Unveils Billboard Campaign to Deter Illegal Immigration
Over 40 billboards have been placed in strategic locations across Central America, Mexico, and parts of the Texas-Mexico border.
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Student loan “forgiveness” not a virtue
President Obama wants to make your life easier, if you're a college graduate with student loans. He's issued an executive order that is supposed to consolidate student loans to cut interest rates, limit student loan payments to 10% of a graduate's income, and forgive...
Amendment Prop. 3 would extend the student loan crisis
When I voted on Monday, I voted "no" on Proposition 3, the Texas constitutional amendment designed to increase the amount of money available for guaranteed student loans in the state of Texas. This was a no-brainer for me, even as the child in my womb kicked to...
Proposition 7 Puts the Cart Before the Horse
Liberals in Austin would have you believe that a plethora of electric cars, expedient light rail, and expansive parks districts are necessities that a city must have to lure new citizens. But in reality, populations move to where jobs are prevalent. If passed,...
Proposition 4 Will Lead To Less Property Protections
Thanks to the Texas Legislature, Texans are now faced with a new attempt to finance Kelo-style property takings in their local communities. Proposition 4 is a major step back in the fight for property protections and should be voted down this November. Proposition 4...
Problematic Prop 4 smells familiar, in a bad way
It sounds so harmless, doesn't it - giving counties the authority to create reinvestment zones where there is currently blight. That's the gist of one Texas constitutional amendment, Proposition 4, on the November 8 ballot. This amendment is a bigger concern than it...
Anything You Can Do, We Can Do More Inefficiently
Not to be outdone by the ridiculous public transit ideas from the Austin City Council, the city of San Antonio now wants to spend $180 million of taxpayer money on a boondoggle they can call their own. An independent report issued from the non-partisan Heartland...
Hancock Senate Run Endorsed By TFR
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility today endorsed Kelly Hancock in his run for the Texas Senate in 2012. "As member of the Texas House, Kelly Hancock has been an effective legislator working on behalf of Texas taxpayers," said Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of Texans...
20 years later, some still want murderers to have the upper hand
Gut-wrenching is the only way to describe the effects of reading the Killeen Daily Herald’s in-depth story Sunday on the 20th anniversary of the horrific mass-murder at the Luby’s Cafeteria in that town. It was 16 October 1991 that murderer George Hennard, 35, crashed...
Democrat Castro’s redistricting skullduggery exposed
Here’s a story to upset the applecart on redistricting. It turns out that it was ambitious Democrat-sharpies from San Antonio who worked the redistricting committee to move Hispanic Democrat neighborhoods in San Antonio out of Republican Congressman Canseco’s district...