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Commentary: “Saving” Chick-fil-A is Not Enough
Simply staving off attacks from secularist radicals is not enough when they keep coming back for more.
Texas House Leadership Applauded by Illegal Immigrants
Republicans in the Texas House are being thanked and cheered by illegal immigrants for defeating conservatives’ efforts to repeal a law that grants them subsidized, in-state tuition rates to public colleges and universities.
Bettencourt Defends Harris County Taxpayers
State Sen. Paul Bettencourt spoke up for the taxpayers of Harris County at the commissioner’s court hearing on the 2016 tax rate.
Sylvester Turner’s Hollow Endorsement
Without considering who would best handle Houston’s most serious problem: pension debt. The Houston Chronicle opted to endorse Turner and praise him for his years of being an elected official.
Fix First, Then Fund
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is the poster child of agencies in dire need of reform. We’ve recently reported on the many, well-documented illustrations of institutional incompetence, poor leadership decisions, and a lack of objective processes for...
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...
Lies, Damned Lies, and LBB Statistics
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’” —Mark Twain In August, the...
Half-Billion For ‘Virtually Useless’ Test
For more than a year we’ve been calling for a moratorium on the statewide testing system on the basis that those dollars could be better spent educating kids. Now we found out that the test may be "virtually useless." It's time to seriously re-think what we mean by...
Texas Budget Compact
The historic trend for the cost of state government has presented Texas taxpayers with a bill we increasingly cannot afford. For some time, we have consoled ourselves with the idea Texas is a small-government, low-tax state. And we are, when compared to the other...