As the June 5 local runoff election approaches in Tarrant County, Democrat organizers have recommended candidates in these non-partisan races. While local citizen-activists have released their own list of recommendations for the June 5 runoffs, the Tarrant County...
On Tuesday, North Texas voters decided key city and school district runoff elections that will directly impact citizens’ quality of life and their wallets. Across the state, local elections usually held in May were moved to November this year due to concerns about the...
After hiking property taxes, the Arlington City Council is asking citizens to raise the prices of goods and services by hiking the city’s sales tax. The Arlington Independent School District is also asking citizens to hike their property tax bills. In this year’s...
I didn’t start out a term limits guy, but the shrieking death throes of centralized power and unwarranted claims of calamity suggest that we need to live with the current limits for a while. I encourage the city council to give it some time. Imagine the City of...
City of Arlington officials have proposed a property tax rate that would increase the average homeowners’ tax bills from the city almost 9 percent from last year, and just shy of 53 percent from six years ago, to $973. Data from the Tarrant Appraisal District...
Arlington residents will vote on whether to impose term limits on their mayors and city council members, thanks to a group of citizens who successfully petitioned to add the issue to the November ballot. Citizens presented a petition to Arlington City Council on...
Texans are concerned that mail ballot fraud is being used to steal elections – especially close local elections that typically have low voter turnout. Marvin Sutton is one of those concerned Texans. In June, Sutton lost a city council race by just two votes. But he...
On January 20th, volunteers organized as Citizens For a Better Arlington held a press conference to announce a successful petition to ban red light cameras. Their effort garnered 11,405 signatures, nearly 2,000 more than the legal requirement to place the item before...
