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AG Paxton Sues North Texas Doctor for Illegally Providing Children Cross-sex Hormones
Texas law prohibits doctors from facilitating all “gender transition” surgeries and providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors.
Austin, Investigations, Local, State
Patterns of Negligence: The Kellys’ Georgetown ISD Story
A family’s outcry for change in the district.
Analysis: The Texas Lottery Commission is Allowing Players to Break the Law
The commission is playing possum, but lawmakers don’t appear to be buying the act.
Tarrant County Judge Reassures Voters Election Security Measures Are in Place
With the November General Election approaching, one county is working to foster confidence in the election process.
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License the cosmetics girls at Dillards!
A story in the Austin American-Statesman began with these words: “There are beauty procedures about which Texas law is perfectly clear. People must be licensed by the state if they intend to bleach, cleanse, color, cut, dress, dye, process, shampoo, shape, singe,...
Americans Don’t Want More Gas Taxes
So the tax-hike proponents at the Dallas Morning News are once again pushing the false choice between higher taxes or no new roads, after word hit their newsroom that only 15 percent of American voters support higher gasoline taxes. The Rassmussen Reports poll found...
HD85’s Heflin needs replacing, GOP needs quality candidate
The Lubbock newspaper has reported that democrat state rep. Joe Heflin is going to have a Republican opponent. This is hardly news since David Andrews of Jones County has openly been running for some time. What may be news is who else gets in the GOP race for the seat...
Texas Transportation on a Budget
With an abundance of transportation contractors and the poor overall health of the global economy, Texas is in a good position to pick up some needed infrastructure on the cheap. The transportation equation consists of two parts: revenue and spending. Until now...
Now Some Feds Want To Hike Your Gas Tax, Too
It’s not enough that Republican lawmakers Vicki Truitt of Southlake and John Carona of Dallas want to hike gasoline taxes and vehicle fees. Now the Obama Administration’s token Republican, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, wants the federal gasoline tax raised,...
Voters: Election A Win-Win For Texas
Voters: Election A Win-Win For Texas AUSTIN, Texas – In a poll conducted by Wilson Research Strategies on behalf of Empower Texans, 65 percent of Republican primary voters say they consider re-electing Rick Perry as governor a double-win: Perry keeps working...
KBH campaign enters bizarre phase
That Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is blanketing Texas with advertisements to convince GOP voters that she is a conservative, says more than do her commercials. Hutchison has been on various Texas ballots much longer than has Rick Perry, being first elected to the...
Voters: Stay And Fight
AUSTIN, Texas – A poll conducted by Wilson Research Strategies on behalf of Empower Texans finds 69 percent of Republican primary voters want U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to stay in the Senate and fight the policies and programs being advocated by President Obama...
Texas’ drift needs righting, now
While we celebrate recent data showing that Texas’ unemployment number is two-points lower than the national average and that Texas lead the nation in job creation last month, we must be aware that our better-than-others performance is not simply happenstance. It is...