Texas soldiers are unnecessarily entangled in a train wreck of layered bureaucracies, political issues, staff turnover, and IT headaches. Issues in paying troops, identified last year, persist. As we previously reported, Operation Lone Star (OLS) is part of Gov. Greg...
Shortly after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, he had a full-blown border crisis on his hands. Though the administration appeared content to ignore its issues on the southern border, even typically friendly outlets reported border crossings had jumped to the...
Monday, Texas State Comptroller Glenn Hegar held a virtual news conference to discuss a revised Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE) of $115.65 billion in revenue available for general-purpose spending. This is up by $3.12 billion from the estimate originally given on...
On Tuesday, members of the Texas House Appropriations Committee asked a series of questions to the Legislative Budget Board, revealing some $179 billion dollars in state government contracts are out of compliance with a state transparency law. The law requires vendors...
Property tax reform, while a wildly popular issue among Texans, has been largely dismissed by a Republican-led legislature. While much needed attention has finally been paid towards reducing the onerous business franchise tax, too little consideration has been given...
