Testifying for the Texas Senate Committee on Border Security today, newly inaugurated Adjutant General Thomas Suelzer told State Sens. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), Chuy Hinojosa (D-McAllen), and Bob Hall (R-Edgewood) that at the current operational pace, funding for...
As voting for the Texas primaries has wrapped up, the eyes of the nation at large are on the Rio Grande Valley. Many observers expect 2022 to be a big year for Republicans and the GOP, predicting to see the party build on its 2020 inroads with Hispanic voters and...
When La Joya ISD spent over $20 million on a taxpayer-funded waterpark, Texans were rightfully outraged. Now a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Texas Senate is taking action to make sure it never happens again. This week, State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R–Houston)...
For over a decade now a number of nursing home operators have been trying to get lawmakers to impose a tax on nursing home residents that will allow the operators to pull down additional dollars for themselves from the federal government. They will try to call it...
On Mother’s Day Weekend, most Texans are sending their mothers and grandmothers some flowers, but Austin lobbyists and their liberal Republican allies are trying to send them a tax increase. Few proposed bills this session have generated more outrage from Texans than...
This week, House Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick each released the names of the five members they are appointing to serve on the conference committee tasked with hammering out the differences on the state budget. If they can come to a consensus, the...
Though Donald Trump’s margin of victory was shocking to many of those watching election returns, perhaps the biggest surprise was down in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley where voters rejected a proposed hospital district that would massively increase taxes. Hidalgo County...
With early voting beginning on Monday, citizen activists have filed a lawsuit to stop their county government from manipulating the election. At issue is Hidalgo County Proposition 1, a measure that would create a hospital district in Hidalgo County at a cost of 8...
