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After Girls’ Sports Investigation, Irving ISD Faces Legal Threat Over Censorship
Accuracy in Media is warning that a lawsuit will be filed if the district does not reverse course and stop censoring criticism.
Analysis: Maybe the Dallas Mavericks Will Move to China?
The Mavericks majority owner, a Chinese casino operator, infuriated Texas fans.
Pastor, Substitute Teacher Arrested Again for Child Sex Crimes
Former East Texas pastor Timothy Nall has a history of sex crime charges involving children.
New Measure Would Protect Businesses From Ideological Discrimination
The legislation aims to prevent financial discrimination based on ESG scores, DEI standards, and religious beliefs or affiliations.
The Archive
LEAK: Senate Revenues
While the Texas House passed a state budget for 2012-2013 that stays within the taxpayers’ means, a document floating around the Texas Senate carries ideas to bring in new revenues – more than $1 billion through new and increased taxes. It also employs budget mirrors...
Rewarding Performance
A bill filed by Reps. William Callegari and Erwin Cain aims to increase government efficiency by emphasizing government employee performance over longevity. The words "government" and "efficiency" don't often find themselves in the same sentence, except as a...
Straus a conservative compared to the Senate?
Speaking to students and administrators at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Politics Speakers Series, House Speaker Joe Straus essentially answered back this week’s calls in the press from Senator Ogden for some type of fast-fix of the business tax to bring...
Anti-Corruption Bills
Two state representatives are taking aim at elected officials and public employees who committed felonies during their time in office. The bills represent a great step forward towards bringing more accountability and integrity in government. Rep. Eric Johnson...
And Now Its On To Redistricting
Over the weekend, the Texas House finally got to passing our state’s budget for the next two years with less than half of the legislative session left. Of course the House budget is balanced, and will now go to the Senate where more revenues will probably be added to...
Texas Constitution: Beware the rewriters
The Austin-American Statesman reports that during the budget debate, State Rep. Mark Strama, rabid liberal Democrat of Austin, said “the two-year budget is a vestige of bygone days when members traveled to Austin by horse and is no longer feasible.” “No economist...
House Budget Lives Within Texans Means
Tonight's final vote on House Bill 1 tells us House leaders got the message taxpayers have been sending: live within our means! But taxpayers must remain vigilant; the session is far from over, and opportunities for taxing-and-spending mischief abound. Certainly the...
Budget Right, Now
Even though the House Appropriations Committee stopped with $800 million in budget cuts, conservative lawmakers kept looking for more ways to reduce spending and protect the state's rainy day fund dollars. Amendments doing both will be offered on the House floor by...
Assessing New Taxes
Some in the Texas legislature might try to hide behind tax-hiking verbiage to escape voter wrath. You can put lipstick on a tax and call it a fee or assessment, but it doesn’t change the fact that it drains taxpayer wallets for the purpose of growing government. Take...