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With state agencies leaving nearly $1 billion in fees and fines uncollected, taxpayers are potentially on the hook for picking up those operating costs. TFR's Michael Quinn Sullivan told the Associated Press it's "incumbent on our state agencies to collect these...

For years the debate over illegal immigration and its costs has been waged in the realm of anecdote and assumption; hardly the stuff of good public policy. State Rep. John Zerwas (R-Houston) is proposing a radical step: start collecting reliable data. Zerwas' H.B. 276...

Of the 74 Democrats in the Texas House, 64 of them have been asked by 11 Republicans to pick the next Speaker of the Texas House. (That means 10 Democrats are joining with 65 Republicans in keeping Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick.) A liberal political gossip...

You have to admit it, Rick Perry is right about at least one thing: new taxes would “sour the Texas economy.” With the national economy in the tank, and Texas still comparatively well-off, legislators will have to work hard to keep the state out of California-like...

Legislators yesterday called the Texas Department of Transportation "a mess" and "out of control." The Sunset Advisory Commission, composed primarily of House and Senate members, have been reviewing TxDOT's performance, or lack thereof. They voted to recommend their...

In honor of Bill of Rights day, I feel that it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of market restrictions on our right to keep and bear arms. A recent study from professors at the University of Michigan and University of Maryland researched whether California's...

At this rate, more lawmakers will be declared candidates for speaker than aren't. The latest is State Rep. Edmund Kuempel (R-Seguin). One the Fiscal Responsibility Index he voted with taxpayers 64 percent of the time.