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Y’All Answered: Still with Cornyn?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
Texas State Board of Education to Consider New Educational Materials This Week
The new materials are being praised by conservative groups for including Bible stories.
Measure to Create Texas Border Law Enforcement Agency Filed in Texas Senate
The Texas Division of Homeland Security would be empowered to oversee law enforcement operations at the border.
Houston ISD Considers Selling Property to Cover Costs
Following the failure of a $4.4 billion bond at the ballot box, district officials are looking for alternative avenues of funding.
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Lawsuit Could Be Key To Limiting Gov’t Growth, New Tax
Higher Fraud
Despite cries of poverty from university administrators seeking constant tuitions hikes -- and more taxpayer subsidies -- a new review finds major institutions are not only awash in cash, but that they are hoarding the cash contributed by alumni. For what? Who knows....
Those Calves Won’t Rope Themselves
One of the most significant taxpayer lawsuits in Texas' history is about to go to jury-trial in Austin, but Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has thus far refused to be deposed -- despite being a defendant in the case. While the office of Lt. Governor is a taxing one, it seems...
Getting It (Almost) Right
In a rare display of good sense, the Dallas Morning News almost gets it right in an editorial on the Legislature's new business income tax. But in arguing against the creation of new loopholes and exmeptions, they write "this new tax needs time to work." In reality,...
Academically-Required Press Box
Abilene school district officials tell the local newspaper that their "New Year's Resolution" is to increase taxpayers' debt this May by $85.2 million, or $5,126 per student. This would include spending $2 million on a new press box for the local football stadium....
New Business Tax Body Blow: 300 Percent Increase
The Houston Chronicle reports on the severe impact of the new business tax, which is a $6.2 billion hike  over the franchise tax. Wanda Rohm, who owns Presto Printing in Houston with 12 employees, said her taxes will go up an astonishing 300 percent. We have...
Sandbagging The Taxpayers
You always get more of what you subsidize, especially risky behavior. That's certainly the case along Texas' hurricane-prone coastline. Our friends over at the Texas Public Policy Foundation recently published a sobering report looking at the multi-billion-dollar...
Lacking Decency
While Texas Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson's strong views on any number of issues earned him equal measures of love and scorn, he was an honorable man who truly sought to serve the best interests of Texans. He died earlier this week of a heart attack. As...
Giving Environmentalists The Bird
Pop quiz: Do you save the planet from global warming by switching to renewable energy sources, or do you protect a species from tragic death knowing you'll make the planet uninhabitable in somewhere between 5 to 5 million years? After years of making the rest of us...