State
Dan Patrick Blasts ‘Casino Commission’ as Vegas Group Makes Land Purchase Near Dallas
Las Vegas Sands, which has pushed heavily for casinos in Texas, has purchased a tract of land outside of Dallas near the site of the former Texas Stadium.
Paxton Impeachment Cost Taxpayers Over $4.3 Million
Attorney General Ken Paxton says the latest report is “just the tip of the iceberg.”
Texas Joins 18 Other States Opposing Proposed Rule Disqualifying Christians from Becoming Foster Parents
The Texas attorney general has signed onto a letter opposing a proposed rule from the Biden administration that would prevent Christians who do not affirm LGBTQ lifestyles from becoming foster parents.
Katrina Pierson to Challenge Justin Holland for Texas House
Holland has drawn the ire of conservatives with a series of high profile votes in contradiction to the party’s priorities this year.
State Archive
Proposition 2 Shows the Problems with Higher Education Finance
In 2003, the State Legislature passed the tuition deregulation plan which gave university systems the ability to raise their own tuition rates. Previously, the tuition rates for state universities were controlled by the State Legislature. We were assured by university...
Subprime Crisis Solution – Reduce Runaway Texas Foreclosures by Reducing Property Taxes
With increasing warnings of an economic meltdown due to the subprime crisis, the best thing Texas government entities could do is provide property tax relief, especially since Texas has the 5th highest foreclosure rate in the nation, which is increasing at a...
Merry Christmas
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is under fire from environmental groups because of his decision to sell the so-called “Christmas Mountains†which abut Big Bend National Park in far west Texas. Patterson rightly believes that the land will be better...
Don’t Believe Prop 15’s Hype
No Headline: Conservatives Press For Sanity
Seventeen members of the Texas House have sent a letter to Texas' delegation to the U.S. Congress, urging them to sustain the President's veto of the massive expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Don't expect the letter to make the newspapers -- they...
Headline: Socialists (Heart) Big Government
Newspapers around the state are breathlessly reporting that the Marxist-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities thinks a massive national expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program is good for Texas. Of course, these are the same people who think you...
Spying On Motorists?
The Texas Department of Transportation has been saying they’re broke, and cannot afford to build new roads. On the other hand, they have engaged in a multi-million-dollar advertising campaign to convince taxpayers to embrace new transportation policies. Now we find...
State Flush With Cash; Still No Additional Tax Relief
Texas’ budget surplus has grown even more. State employees will get a pay raise, taxpayers? Still nothing. The Office of the Comptroller announced yesterday that the state is bringing in $1.5 billion in additional revenues – over and above the previously announced...
CHIPing Away At Taxpayers
What was Kay Bailey Hutchison thinking? As the only Texas Republican to support a massive expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, Hutchison's vote is contrary to the wisdom of Texas' fiscal conservatives on a program of questionable effectiveness. The...