…listed on the city’s website, like other city bureaucrats ranging from the city manager to the library director? Many Texans are troubled that cities would use taxpayer dollars to hire…
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Taxpayers Get A Solar Soaking
…what the taxpayers’ paid for installation. That’s assuming solar panels installed at places like a library in Bedford, Austin’s community college, and the Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, last that…
William Travis’ Letter
…deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels & got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves — Travis Letter transciption courtesy of the Texas State Library &…
Stimulus jobs: when does the counting stop?
…rest on the collection of taxes from wealth generators. There’s not much shoveling in the school library. Nonetheless, the October jobs figures may show the national unemployment rate breaking 10%…
Denton’s Budgeted Lobby Habit
…are scaling back raises, lowering travel and professional conference costs and reducing the budget for new library materials. Tthe budget is cutting planned increases to police positions in favor of…
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…
Abbott Sides with Taxpayers: No New Property Taxes Without a Constitutional Amendment
…a multijurisdictional library district could impose a new property tax. Even if the Legislature had authorized it, the AG’s opinion finds that a constitutional amendment would have been needed because…
New Property Tax Could Go on the Books
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has submitted a formal request to Attorney General Abbott for an opinion on whether library districts can levy a property tax. The request…
State Auditor: Higher Ed High on the Hog
…lower rate. For example, even with more students, you don’t need another library and another curator for the library or more janitors to clean the same building. Furthermore, automation advances…