State
Group Sues Attorney General Paxton to Halt Online Age Verification Law
The SCOPE Act will require sites that publish harmful or obscene content to use an age verification method to ensure the user is 18 years or older
Survey: Texans Support Historical Religious Stories in School Curriculum
Most respondents believe that religious texts can help students better understand Western civilization.
Illegal Alien Who Crossed Through Texas Arrested in Maryland on Rape Charges
The man originally entered the country as an accompanied minor.
Texas Obtains Expanded Injunction on Biden-Harris’ Redefinition of Title IX Protections
The ruling is the latest movement in a full-scale legal effort by Texas and other Republican states to contest the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed Title IX changes.
State Archive
Divided To Be United
In less than 36 hours, the polls will be closed. Our Texas House and Senate races will be determined and we’ll know the outcome of what seems to have been the longest presidential race in U.S. history. Even as we enter the polling places divided by party and...
State Planes Take Taxpayers for a Ride
A new State Auditor's report finds that the use of state planes has cost taxpayers $1.4 million from May 2007 to May 2008. For example, a flight from Austin to Dallas cost $990 a person that would have been $248 roundtrip on Southwest with no advance purchase. The...
Texas is number 1!
No, not the University of Texas football team, the State of Texas according to a piece by the Financial Times of London. Texas was ranked number one in its measured ability to weather the current economic downturn based on four economic indicators. Texas leads the...
Voting Early (And Dead?)
The story is the same across the state: long lines at early voting locations. Record turn-outs. Unusually high voter participation for Day One of early voting. While good for democracy to have a high turn-out, for the sake of this democracy we are left to merely hope...
A Conservative Pledge
Conservatives nationwide have been reporting historic apathy, frustrated with national leadership that seems to have lost its philosophic moorings. But Texans have reason for excitement this election season, thanks to the leadership of conservative legislators...
AT&T Thumbs Nose At Tax Elimination?
We reported yesterday the death of the TIF tax in Texas. We rejoiced too soon. Reporters at the Lone Star Report found out AT&T plans to continue collecting the tax until December! A tax that lawmakers killed in early 2007, was signed by the governor in June 2007,...
TIF Tax Is Dead
Texans are finally rid of a tax, thanks to action taken by the Texas Legislature in 2007. The Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund tax has now been eliminated, an action championed by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. At a press conference in the Capitol today, Lt....
Batten Down The Hatches
While the rest of the nation is deep in a slump (or worse), Texas' economy is faring relatively well, thanks in large part to the relatively wise and conservative stewardship of the last eight years. But Texas Gov. Rick Perry is urging caution, and telling agencies to...
Obsessed with Reform
While the Fort Worth Star Telegram editorial staff is recommending Phil King for H.D. 61, they aren’t endorsing his pursuit of sound policy. They like his years-in-office, but they write that they have to hold their nose over his ideas about protecting taxpayers,...