A Texas-based drug recovery group is allegedly distributing crack pipes and other “harm reduction resources” using federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Recovery Alliance of El Paso claims to help those struggling with alcohol...
Republican State Rep. Brian Harrison of Midlothian is asking Texas State Auditor Lisa Collier to determine whether taxpayer dollars are being used for a $1 million settlement with Kathleen McElroy, a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) proponent who voluntarily...
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated Klick voted to legalize casino gambling. FORT WORTH — Grassroots political activist David Lowe has announced his campaign challenging incumbent State Rep. Stephanie Klick for a seat in House District...
Texas Department of Transportation administrators are allowing employees to use taxpayer-funded government-issued devices to participate in LGBT employee resource group activities during their lunch hour. Last month, Texas Scorecard uncovered records from TxDOT...
Internal records from the Texas Department of Transportation reveal directors have been using taxpayer money to finance leftist practices and events. The documents were provided to Texas Scorecard through an open records request from Texas Scorecard to TxDOT under the...
For the past 12 years, the City of Houston has promised to take $11.80 of every $100 collected from property taxes to fund drainage projects, an effort taxpayers voted for on the 2010 ballot since the city has been known to flood. However, since 2016, Houston has...
The Texas Department of Transportation is attempting to withhold documents concerning the agency’s use of materials related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG). Responding to a tip from a whistleblower, Texas...
EL PASO — After a city council meeting this week, El Paso is now the first city in Texas to approve a taxpayer-funded diversity, equality, and inclusion board. This decision came after the city council approved an LGBT-uplifting plan earlier in the day. Despite...
El Paso’s Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) held a special meeting to discuss excessive fuel spending by council members. The city’s Chief Internal Auditor Edmundo Calderon received a tip about suspicious spending by two city council members in November...
Texas House lawmakers provided initial approval for a new legislative measure that creates another corporate welfare program, replacing the expired controversial Chapter 313 program that ended last year. “Today, we witnessed House lawmakers revive a corporate welfare...
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman of the Northern District of Texas blocked President Joe Biden’s implementation of a student loan forgiveness plan that would put taxpayers on the hook for $400 billion. Pittman called the program an “unconstitutional...
With inflation, a recession, and school starting in just a few weeks, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar has announced that the Texas sales tax holiday will occur August 5-7. Clothing, footwear, school supplies, and backpacks less than $100 will be exempt from the state...
Those who impose taxes are quick to plead righteousness of the levy, as though it were a divine sacrament. We’re told we should feel some sort of patriotic zeal for bearing the burden of a bloated government that far exceeds its constitutional size. When the ruling...
ROUND ROCK — As parents across the state continue to challenge their local school boards for corruption, controversial curricula, and questionable mask mandates, citizens in an Austin suburb are taking their local district to court. “NEWS! The Round Rock [Independent...
For the first time in years, the city of Allen chose not to raise residents’ property tax bills. Credit for the taxpayer win goes to three new cost-conscious council members—and an active group of conservative citizens who helped elect them. Tuesday night, Allen City...
Collin County, located in North Texas, is part of the fastest-growing area in the state. Also growing quickly is the tax bill to pay for the county’s school districts. All five Collin County school districts with the largest tax hikes have fewer than 5,000 enrolled...
In November of 2020, voters rejected an almost $1 billion bond—and tax increase—from Northwest Independent School District, just outside of Fort Worth. NISD has cut the amount to $746 million, eliminated the tax increase, and will try again on May 1. The district...
UPDATE October 27 to include Fort Worth IDS’s tax increase election. After months of hardship brought on by government responses to the Chinese coronavirus, are Texas voters willing to approve local officials’ requests for higher taxes and debt this November?...
Cities and counties in North Texas are adopting property tax rates that will either deliver smaller increases in their average property tax bills or lower them altogether. Citizens wanting similar results in their areas can do so by educating themselves, asking hard...
Elected officials in three Republican-run North Texas counties are choosing not to raise county property taxes this year on local residents, who are already hurting from months of government-ordered shutdowns during the Chinese coronavirus outbreak. Collin, Denton,...
