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Houston Teen Killed by Train, Union Pacific Stops Trains Near Milby High During School Hours
The City of Houston is looking into building a skybridge over the tracks for student use.
Texas Library Association To Teach Librarians How To Protect Obscene Books
Additional topics include advocating for social justice and gender confusion in children’s literature.
Report: School Districts Caught Electioneering Need Stronger Penalties
The Texas Public Policy Foundation recommends that lawmakers make electioneering-related criminal violations a state jail felony.
House Lawmaker Proposes Measure to Allow for Gold, Silver Currency
Texas Republican primary voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot measure in favor of this concept earlier this year.
The Archive
$86,000 for Chick-Fil-A – but can the children read?
This post comes with a warning - you may need to keep a bucket handy, if learning about financial irresponsibility in government entities makes you as queasy as it makes me. On the front page of today's Dallas Morning News, highly visible despite Mike Rawlings'...
Taxpayers Won’t Be Bullied
Threatening to fire teachers didn’t work in the Keller Independent School District this weekend, where taxpayers rejected a massive 13-cent property tax hike bureaucrats wanted to impose. Local officials blamed state officials, saying legislators weren’t providing all...
Decisive Indecisiveness
Here’s the breakdown of how Rep. Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock) has voted throughout the course of the latest debate on auto-spending the Economic Stabilization Fund. It's a case of legislative votes not meshing with political words. Last Friday, Rep. Phil King...
Health Care Common Sense
Health Care Compact legislation championed by Rep. Lois Kolkhorst and Sen. Jane Nelson has been called many things, but perhaps the best way to describe the Compact is the difference between the one-size-fits-all approach to health care policy of the Federal...
Currently Correct, But Giving Us Policy Whiplash
They were against it before they were for it before they were against it... Sometimes legislators votes are enough to give constituents a case of public policy whiplash. Such is the case with State Reps. Vicki Truitt (R-Southlake) and Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock). ...
Rainy Day Re-Do
Remember those Republicans that voted against protecting the Rainy Day Fund a week ago? You can now add Reps. Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock) and Vicki Truitt (R-Southlake) to the list. We reported last week that Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford) attempted to strip an...
Self Congratulations, Paid For By Lobbyists
When it comes to defending the higher-ed status quo, few have done it better than State Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo). So, she's throwing a "Statewide Salute"... to herself. In an e-mail her campaign staff sent this week, Sen. Zaffirini is promoting a "Statewide...
Two Trains Are Not Better Than One
Austin taxpayers have already spent $105 million on MetroRail, a light-rail system that isn’t ridden and hasn’t improved traffic. But that isn’t stopping the Austin City Council from now drooling over a brand-new transportation boondoggle. The price tag on this new...
Some School Districts Look For Their Next “Fix”
After finding out the state will not be able to afford even more money in the name of “enrollment growth”, many school districts are now looking hard at the taxpayers for their next “fix” in the form of higher property tax rates. This desperate move to ward off the...