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Call it California peer pressure if you will, but in accordance with the city’s trademark environmentalism Austin is taking further steps to stop all that is bad in the world: Mayor Lee Leffingwell recently announced a revived proposal to ban plastic shopping bags in...

One day after declaring a Phase 1 Emergency because of record electricity use, the City of Austin released the locations of 103 electric-car charging stations that all tap into the power grid. It may sound like something you would read in The Onion, but sadly, it’s no...

Once upon a time, the art of “compromise” might have been an honorable political trait. It’s now become politico-speak for allowing the ruling class to spend without restraint. The debt debate debacle is just the most recent, and costly, example. The difference this...

For the past year, the Tarrant Appraisal District has been in violation of state law. By failing to publicly post agendas for meetings over 72 hours in advance, any actions they have taken could be nullified by the Texas Open Meetings Act. According to Texas law, a...

The American People are witnesses to the slow suicide of our government through political posturing, lack of imagination and small-minded decision making. While the two political parties jockey with each other in the media, and trade insults and false promises, the...

Think your small-town school district is immune from the taxpayer fraud and abuse seen in the state’s largest districts? Luling residents have learned otherwise. Their local superintendent was put on administrative leave last week after reports of financial...

News broke recently that State Rep. and Taxpayer Champion James White will have a primary opponent in the upcoming election cycle. Given that his challenger, Rep. Mike “Tuffy” Hamilton, would have otherwise been paired against one of the three worst Republicans in the...