by Owen Stroud | Sep. 12, 2019 | Sports
Lamar University senior quarterback Jordan Hoy began his final season in Beaumont with a bang.Hoy, who played his high school ball for Rockwall Heath, led the Cardinals to a 65-16 victory against Bethel (Tenn.) University on the strength of 226 passing yards and three...
by Owen Stroud | Sep. 12, 2019 | Sports
Junior cornerback Myles Jones contributed to Texas A&M’s stellar defensive effort against Texas State, a season-opening 41-7 rout.Prior to facing the Bobcats, the 6-foot-4, 185-pound Jones had just one career interception since coming to College Station from...
by Owen Stroud | Sep. 12, 2019 | Sports
In its 39-7 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff to open the 2019 campaign, TCU sent 11 true freshmen into action.While first-year cornerback and former Cedar Hill High star Donavann Collins remained on the sidelines against the Golden Lions, he will likely contribute...
by Cary Cheshire | Sep. 12, 2019 | Local
Former Austin City Councilman and current state representative candidate Don Zimmerman is suing the City of Austin over a recently approved item in the city budget providing $150,000 for individuals to help subsidize their abortions. The budget item is a recent...
by Destin Sensky | Sep. 12, 2019 | Federal, State
With gun-control measures at the center of a debate in Austin and Washington, D.C., another Texas Republican is sounding off about mandatory background check proposals. At a breakfast event sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was asked to...
by Brandon Waltens | Sep. 12, 2019 | State, Uncategorized
On Thursday afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott released a list of suggestions for the state legislature on gun violence, following roundtable meetings in the wake of the El Paso and Odessa shootings. Dubbed the “Texas Safety Action Report,” many of Abbott’s suggestions are...
by Brandon Waltens | Sep. 12, 2019 | State
A dozen grassroots organizations delivered a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott Thursday asking for a special session to pass the “Lone Star Agenda,” a package of conservative reforms intended to unite voters ahead of the upcoming elections. “In the face of increasing...
by Darrell Frost | Sep. 12, 2019 | Local
Harris County officials are planning to raise residents’ property tax bills to the highest level allowed by law before voters would have an opportunity to approve or reject the increase. Facing the prospect of an automatic election trigger for property tax revenue...
by Robert Montoya | Sep. 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Tuesday evening, Bedford City Council voted 6-0 to continue their pattern of hiking property taxes, choosing to raise the average city homeowner’s property tax bill over 9 percent from just last year, from $1,142 to $1,252. Even worse, data from the Tarrant Appraisal...
by Ross Kecseg | Sep. 12, 2019 | State
As a result of a recently passed state law, school property tax rates will be reduced in the 2019 tax year. Whether or not individual taxpayers will pay a lower tax bill will depend on the amount their property has increased in taxable value. Although the exact rate...
by Reagan Reed | Sep. 12, 2019 | State
The next meeting of the State Republican Executive Committee could feature contentious debate over a proposal to water down a key rule that allows the grassroots to hold county chairmen accountable for misbehavior in office.On September 5, Republican Party of Texas...
by 1836 Studios | Sep. 12, 2019 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Episode 102: Destin Sensky talks guns, Jacob Asmussen talks chicken, and Brandon Waltens talks Cornyn as Texas Scorecard Radio host Tony McDonald and the Texas Scorecard staff go around the state. Travis County GOP chair Matt Mackowiak discusses Austin’s...
by Jacob Asmussen | Sep. 11, 2019 | Local
Thanks to the Austin City Council, Austinites will continue to be forced to fund the killing of pre-born children. On Tuesday, the city council approved their budget for the next fiscal year, with a deadly new amendment: They will now use $150,000 of citizens’ cash to...
by Robert Montoya | Sep. 11, 2019 | Local
Dallas is considering building soccer fields seemingly in the middle of nowhere, according to a proposal submitted by a state senator’s son. I-345, located in southeast Dallas in the Deep Ellum district, is a stretch of highway constructed in 1973 that has been blamed...
by Erin Anderson | Sep. 11, 2019 | Local
Charges filed last week against two more South Texas voter fraud suspects, including a city official, brings the total to 22 accused of participating in an illegal voting scheme prosecutors say was coordinated by a local mayor. Authorities arrested Edinburg City...
by Texas Scorecard | Sep. 10, 2019 | Federal
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz issued the following statement on the resignation of former Ambassador John Bolton as President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor: John Bolton is a friend, and he has devoted his life to defending our national security, including providing...
by Pratt on Texas | Sep. 10, 2019 | Commentary
While Lubbock County’s newest commissioners Chad Seay and Jason Corley showed the entire state how to force a county to adopt the effective tax rate, the no-new-taxes rate, even as a 2-to-3 minority, the civic cheerleader crowd is out telling what the British call...
by Kris Shafer | Sep. 10, 2019 | Commentary
All civil servants, but especially elected officials of every level, owe it to their constituents to be good stewards of the money taken from the taxpayers and to use it to better the community, county, state, or nation. When conservatives are motivated to run for...
by Jacob Asmussen | Sep. 10, 2019 | Local
San Antonio City Council is being sued for discriminating against Chick-fil-A. Over the weekend, citizens filed a lawsuit against their city council, an action that comes as the latest chapter in a months-long saga. The story began in March, when the San Antonio City...
by Brandon Waltens | Sep. 9, 2019 | State
At a meeting of the True Texas Project in Northeast Tarrant County, State Sen. Pat Fallon (R–Prosper) surprised attendees by officially announcing he is creating an exploratory committee to potentially take on U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in the 2020 Republican Primary....
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