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Now-former Hutto ISD Official Advised How To Allow Boy in Girls’ Sports
This comes after Attorney General Ken Paxton sent demand letters to two other districts to prove they are abiding by state law protecting girls’ sports.
AG Paxton Demands Proof From 2 School Districts That Boys Are Not in Girls’ Sports
The attorney general stated that any effort to circumvent state law by allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports will be rooted out.
New Legislation Would Compel Texas Law Enforcement to Aid ICE Operations
Sanctuary jurisdictions could lose grant funding if a legislative proposal passes into law.
Texas A&M Professor Criticizes USAID Shutdown in Taxpayer-funded Publication
His defense of USAID was published in Politico, a publication that has come under fire in recent days for reportedly being the recipient of USAID funding.
State Archive
‘Ethics’ Chair Admits: Attacking Conservatives to Appease Straus Team
In a letter to incoming conservative state senators, the chairman of the Texas Ethics Commission said his agency is implementing IRS-style attack-rules at the behest of House Speaker Joe Straus’ leadership team. Legislative attempts to implement Obama Administration...
Texas Exports Tax Hike to Nevada
Although Texas leads the nation in energy production and a variety of key economic indicators, we’re exporting much more than goods and services. Other states are following our lead on destructive taxing policy to the economic detriment of their residents. Patrick...
Education Lobby Fails at Math
According to the National Education Agency (NEA), Texas allegedly ranks 47 in education spending per student. A quick look at government data, however, exposes that talking point for what it is—a lie by omission. For starters, comparisons of nominal education spending...
Congratulations, Charles Perry!
Congratulations to Charles Perry on his outright win in the Senate District 28 special election. He received more than 50 percent of the vote in a crowded 6-way race for the 51-county election. Perry was strongly endorsed by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and other...
Criminal Commissions
For several years, Texas has been a model of limited government—at least compared to other states. A new trend is taking us in a disturbing direction: unelected, unaccountable commissions usurping power, undermining constitutional authority and growing government....
Straus Appointments Discredit Ethics Committee Before It Begins
House Speaker Joe Straus used a Friday press release to bury the news about his appointments to a joint interim committee that will review state campaign finance (so-called “ethics”) laws. The laws, and the body that oversees them, the Texas Ethics Commission, are...
When Leading Isn’t Popular
Although countless members of the legislature have appropriately defended Gov. Perry’s exercising of his constitutional authority to veto funding for a discredited agency, few have been willing to defend embattled UT Regent, Wallace Hall, for fulfilling his fiduciary...
Commission Races Forward With Illegal Slots Proposal
Today the Texas Racing Commission will take testimony from citizens concerned with the agency’s impending constitutional overreach. The Commission is considering enacting a rule that would allow Texas horse and dog tracks to implement devices called “instant racing”...
Texas Conservative Leaders: Limit Government Growth
Members of the Texas Conservative Budget Coalition are calling on lawmakers to keep state government growth at or under 6.2% in the 2016-17 biennium. Grassroots conservative leaders and budget experts gathered this morning in Austin to unveil a fiscally conservative...