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Texas A&M Regents Unanimously Pick Hegar as Next Chancellor
Comptroller Glenn Hegar is set to take on a new role on June 30.
Ted Cruz Endorses Don Huffines for Texas Comptroller
The endorsement comes as the comptroller’s office prepares for a change in leadership.
Harrison Criticizes Lack of Public Testimony on House Budget
State Rep. Brian Harrison says keeping taxpayers out of the room is indefensible.
Interim UT Austin President Sides With ‘Shared Governance’
Jim Davis indicated his support for the status quo, which has empowered leftist agitators on campus.
State Archive
Pojman sides with Pro-Abortion Groups on Dismemberment Ban
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee took up legislation on Wednesday that would end the gruesome practice of dismemberment abortion. But one “pro-life” organization sided with pro-abortion groups in opposing the legislation. Even worse, the group’s leader...
Convention of States Supporters on Red Alert
As House leadership makes hostile moves against them, Convention of States supporters are sounding alarms and preparing a citizen-led offensive to ensure the resolution passes before the session ends in May. While the passage of an Article V resolution to rein-in the...
Union Dues Reform Gets Its First Hearing
Now that the legislative session is underway, issues that have festered through the interim are beginning to get hearings in their respective committees. Government collection of union dues, which has garnered opposition from Republican Party of Texas delegates, and...
House Committee Assignments: The Losers
As mentioned yesterday, last week’s unveiling of committee assignments by House Speaker Joe Straus provided cause for celebration for some lawmakers. But just as some were heavily rewarded, others were deliberately snubbed. Here’s Texas Scorecard’s ranking of the...
House Committee Assignments: The Winners
When House Speaker Joe Straus released committee assignments last Thursday, lawmakers made their typical rush to celebrate themselves and their appointments. But some lawmakers, especially Democrats, had considerably more to celebrate than others in the nominally...
Senate Seeks CPS Reform
In his recent State of the State Address, Gov. Greg Abbott declared Child Protective Services reform as his first emergency item this legislative session. He grimly reminded lawmakers that “over one hundred children died in CPS care last year”. CPS first came under...
Straus Makes Committee Assignments…Finally
Far behind the Texas Senate, which passed major legislation including ethics reform and banning sanctuary cities, the Texas House has finally released committee assignments so that members can get to work. As the leader of a Democrat-coalition, House Speaker Joe...
Real Choices, Real Innovation
A central tenant of conservative school reform has been the introduction of meaningful competition and innovation in education. Tension arises between the need for accountability with tax dollars and a desire to make sure parents have real choices for their kids’...
House Leadership Violates Constitution, Empowers Democrats
On Wednesday, the Democrat coalition in the Texas House disregarded the state constitution in order to kill a conservative measure to protect the state’s savings account. After voters approved constitutional amendment SJR 1 in 2014, lawmakers were charged with setting...