This week, Rep. Mayes Middleton (R-Wallisville) introduced a number of proposed laws to bring more ethics reforms to the state and local governments so taxpayers know how their money is being spent. “Government transparency is a basic taxpayer right,” said Middleton...
Shortly before Gov. Greg Abbott’s State of the State address, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told a San Antonio radio station that the Texas Senate would act very quickly on issues he deemed a priority. “If it’s an emergency item on Tuesday in the governor’s State of the State,...