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Parents Win Wrongful Removal Case Against CPS, Bring Daughter Home
CPS accused the parents of abuse and removed their daughter for nine months.
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Texas Tech College of Education Teaches ‘Equity’ Course
A previously suspended Texas Tech professor teaches the class.
Gov. Abbott Tells Universities to Freeze Tuition
“I will ensure college affordability remains a top priority for the state as we head into the next legislative session,” wrote Abbott.
Agreement Reached With Mexico to Help Ensure Water Reliability
The agreement would help ensure that Mexico will honor its part of a 1944 agreement to deliver water to the South Rio Grande Valley.
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It Didn’t Work Before, So Let’s Spend Even More
Teaching all kids in both English and Spanish failed when tried before, so of course, the Austin Independent School District is going to waste even more money -- and kids academic lives -- by doing it again. That's what inept bureaucracies do: spend money on fads,...
Star-Telegram Forecasts School Finance Crisis, Says Schools Lack Funds
The Star-Telegram's editorial suggests state law needs to be changed to allow school districts to tax more without a vote, even while noting that 77 percent of district rate increase requests and 75 percent of bond proposals were approved by voters in 2007. So it...
Useless Acts
Two weeks ago the Office of the Attorney General of Texas weighed in on the recent controversy regarding the speakership of the Texas House. For 99.99 percent of Texans, that issue is about as exciting as watching the grass turn brown. But in the course of the ruling,...
Howdy
Texas is the fastest growing state in the Union. According to the U.S. Census bureau, the Lone Star State's population now exceeds 23.9 million -- adding 500,000 people in just 12 months. Of course, you can expect the liberals to use our growth as yet another excuse...
How To Waste A Million: Purchase, Then Test
If you've ever wanted to waste a million dollars, you should leave it to the experts at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. They spent $1 million on 3,500 GPS devices and specialized software... only to drop them into storage after finding the...
A Chance For Smokin’-Hot Pork
Anti-smoking groups are ready to start cashing bigger government paychecks. Already funded by taxpayers with dubious success, the various groups are salivating over reports that the state's new $1-per-pack cigarette tax hasn't reduced smoking -- because they want in...
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Texas Rolling in Cigarette Tax Money, Mounting Surplus Should Ignite Tax Relief
The Houston Chronicle reports that the state will collect $244 million more in cigarette tax revenues under the $1 per pack increase than predicted. While smoking is most assuredly a bad habit, more money for big government is also an addiction that must be broken....
Bottom-Feeder Bail-Out
According to Wikipedia, catfish "feed on algae, fish scales, mucus, carrion, insects" -- and now, thanks to the Texas Department of Agriculture, your tax dollars. Catfish farmers can get up to $80,000 in bail-out money from the TDA if they suffered "feed losses"...