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Social Engineering of State Highway Users by Liberal Government is California-ising Texas
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Tone-deaf TxDOT
The Texas Department of Transportation is suffering from a lack of hearing—public hearings that is. As of this writing, the Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) has approved approximately $272 million dollars in transit projects that will be funded without holding a...
Political Maneuvering With Streetcar “Defeat”
On Monday the 28th, recently appointed San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor called on the city to re-purpose $32 million previously set aside for an expensive and unpopular streetcar project on more general infrastructure improvement projects. That’s certainly good news for...
Alamo City transit showdown
The Alamo City is no stranger to pivotal fights in Texas. One such fight unfolding is between the city transit authority’s liberal leadership and taxpayers. Citizens opposed to a planned light-rail system have gathered the necessary petition signatures to place a city...
Democrats’ Town Krier
After having stated multiple times that he had no plans to seek re-election in May, long-time consultant to moderate Joe Straus and friend of the Castro Administration Joe Krier pivoted and is running for the city council district 9 seat in May. The reversal is...
Bi-Partisan Activists Successfully Challenge Streetcar Bonds
Some congratulations are in order for activists in San Antonio for successfully challenging a heavy-handed attempt at implementing a streetcar system against their will. By shouting for accountability when their local government officials behaved irresponsibly,...
Via Attempts to Bully Bipartisan Opposition to its Pet Streetcar Program
San Antonio activists are being bullied by their public officials – with their own tax dollars – for engaging in bipartisan activism to prevent the forced imposition of an overwhelmingly unpopular streetcar program. Local taxpayers recently filed a lawsuit against Via...
San Antonio Officials Playing Shell-Games With Your Money
San Antonio’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, Via, is moving forward with an irresponsible and counterproductive streetcar program San Antonio voters don’t want –paid for with their tax dollars. Where exactly those funds are coming from should sound an alarm for...
A Streetcar Named Castro’s Desire
Despite their wishes, San Antonio residents will see their taxes raised for a fiscally irreconcilable and entirely unnecessary deal at the behest of Mayor Julian Castro and County Judge Nelson Wolff. And these two elected officials are seeing to it that the city pays...