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Houston Mayor Diverts $2.6 Million From Bridge Lighting to New Homelessness Initiative
Mayor Whitmire said the funding will be better used to tackle Houston’s homelessness crisis than on “decorative” lights.
A Leftward Lurch: Gene Wu Takes Over Democrat Caucus Amid Leadership Shake-Up
In addition to his ties to the CCP, Wu has been a vocal opponent of legislation banning hostile foreign entities, including China, from purchasing land in Texas.
Grand Prairie ISD Trustees Fire Suspended Superintendent
School board members hired Jorge Arredondo this summer but suspended him in September.
Houston City Council Member Calls for Amendment to Firefighter Labor Contract
A controversial rule in the agreement has come under scrutiny following suggestions that it benefits abusers rather than victims of misconduct.
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Margo’s Sword
Dee Margo, a conservative businessman in El Paso, says he's tired of the typical saber-rattling in politics, so he's campaigning on results. Margo is the Republican nominee for House District 78, having handily defeated incumbent liberal Republican Pat Haggerty in the...
Arlington Fumbles Financing of New Stadium
The city of Arlington is finding that they fumbled the financing for the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington. The stadium, which was jointly financed by Jerry Jones and the city of Arlington is finding itself in the same predicament of many homeowners around the state as...
Property Tax Disinformation
One cannot pick up a newspaper without reading shrill complaints from school districts and editorial boards, fretting about their inability to "raise (taxes) and spend locally." They claim schools are hampered by state law. Nothing could be further from the truth:...
Teacher Blows Whistle On Fraud
A former Joshua ISD teacher says the middle school library was closed to make room for a book sale profitting the school... so the district could afford a field trip to Six Flags Amusement Park. Um, excuse me, how educational is an amusement park? Oh, never mind......
Property Tax Reform
Everywhere I travel I hear the same story: folks struggling to pay oppressive property taxes in a system that is confusing and obfuscated. There is hope that the next legislative session will see strong reforms aimed at empowering taxpayers. One of the fellows leading...
Lobbying For A Tax Increase
Dallas-Fort Worth area city fathers are looking to take a bigger bite out of your wallet -- to fund lobbyists who'll twist lawmakers arms in Austin to allow those same city fathers to take even bigger bites out of your wallet. The Fort Worth Business Press reports...
Give Dallas ISD an”F” for Managing Its Finances
Today's stunning Dallas Morning News story reveals that Dallas ISD overspent its 2007-08 budget by $64 million and, worse, nobody realized it until just now. The district would be bankrupt were it not for its reserve, which is down to $56 million - half of what a...
Smith County Embraces Open Government
Texas is now home to the only TWO counties in the nation opening their books up to taxpayers for real-time review. The first was COllin County, in north Texas. Now comes word that commissioners in east Texas' Smith County have thrown sunlight on their expenses. My...
Not All Growth Is Good
Poised to kill the goose of Texas' golden economy are local governments, which are growing at historic levels. My friend Tom Pauken, chairman of Texas' Workforce Commission, is lamenting this turn of events in an op-ed making the rounds in newspapers around the state....