by Reagan Reed | Mar. 20, 2019 | Local
Citizens in the Conroe Independent School District tired of paying exorbitant property taxes are organizing a campaign to defeat the district’s proposed $807 million bond in the May 4 election, setting the stage for a battle between the taxpayers and pro-spending...
by Destin Sensky | Mar. 20, 2019 | State
Municipal police and local officials from across Texas descended on Austin Tuesday hoping to defeat citizen-led efforts to ban red-light cameras in the Lone Star State. While unsuccessful in scuttling the law, taxpayers should be concerned that bureaucrats were able...
by Charles Blain | Mar. 20, 2019 | Local
The International Longshoremen’s Association South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District announced today they’re rescinding support of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. The union stated their decision to not support Turner in his 2019 re-election bid was largely because of...
by Thomas Warren | Mar. 20, 2019 | Local
After the controversial resignation of a popular coach, debates over the renaming of Amarillo’s Lee Elementary School, and the passage of a $100 million bond, a group of challengers have stepped up to take on the incumbents in Amarillo’s upcoming school...
by Ron Rosener | Mar. 20, 2019 | Commentary
President Reagan famously stated: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” That has never been more true in America than it is today. The following is my attempt to expose some of the commonly expressed...
by Charles Blain | Mar. 20, 2019 | Local
With the dispute over pay still raging, Houston fire fighters gathered by the hundreds to march on city hall and rally on its steps, urging the mayor and city council to stop stalling on implementing equal pay. Both mayoral challengers, Bill King and Tony Buzbee, came...
by Destin Sensky | Mar. 19, 2019 | Federal
Texas native and liberal presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke continues to gradually inch his way further left in a crowded field of hopeful Trump opponents. Since adding his name to a field of 16 candidates seeking the Democrat nomination, and...
by Jacob Asmussen | Mar. 19, 2019 | Local
Austinites, according to your city council, you’re still not paying enough in taxes.At a recent city meeting, the council discussed preliminary numbers for next year’s budget, one of which included property taxes. As of now, they’re planning to take an additional 5.5...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 19, 2019 | State, Uncategorized
Soon, Texas children may be able to sell lemonade without fear of prosecution. In one of the first bills passed in the session, the Texas House has voted to decriminalize children’s lemonade stands. Often one of the first opportunities for children to learn...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 19, 2019 | State, Uncategorized
As Democrat lawmakers in the Texas House were working to give administrators of failing schools extra time before being shut down, conservatives were able to defeat those efforts and clean up glaring problems with the bill. During their first daily calendar of the...
by Ken Casper | Mar. 19, 2019 | Commentary
School taxes are everybody’s concern this legislative year. But here in San Angelo, we have another concern—or at least I do: the arbitrary manner in which the school board acts. In November 2018, Mr. Gerald Gallegos, the District 6 board trustee for San Angelo...
by Erin Anderson | Mar. 19, 2019 | State
Taxpayers across Texas are demanding relief from skyrocketing property tax burdens, yet some local officials are actively opposing popular reforms to help control the growth of Texans’ property tax bills.Recent polling shows an overwhelming 77 percent of Texans...
by Owen Stroud | Mar. 19, 2019 | Sports
Jason Wilson likes his chances more and more each time his Lovejoy High Leopards take the baseball field.“We’re a senior laden team and many of these guys have been playing together now for the last three years,” Wilson told Texas Scorecard. “I would say that our...
by Owen Stroud | Mar. 19, 2019 | Sports
As much as fielding a team, the 2019 softball season for coach Roxanne Curiel and her West Oso High Lady Bears is about starting to build a program.With a 12-player roster that features several underclassmen, the Lady Bears are clearly learning on the job this year...
by Destin Sensky | Mar. 18, 2019 | State
Texas likes to tout its business-friendly environment, but when it comes to government permission to perform your profession, Texas lags behind other states. Conservatives have tried for several sessions to undo some of the burdensome barriers to entry that...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 18, 2019 | State
Progress on a proposed ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying is ramping up, as the legislative session hits the halfway point. A long-standing practice in the halls of the Texas Capitol, taxpayer-funded lobbying refers to cities, counties, and other local governments or...
by Charles Blain | Mar. 18, 2019 | Local
A small Harris County town will be the first in the country to install a virtual safety gate, a network of cameras and license plate readers that records vehicles traveling through the city. West University Place, a wealthy enclave within the city of Houston, is...
by Robert Montoya | Mar. 18, 2019 | Local
TEXRail’s ridership numbers collapsed nearly 67 percent in February. The taxpayer-funded rail line boondoggle, which has cost taxpayers in Fort Worth over $250 million, Americans nationwide over $530 million, and will not improve the environment or traffic congestion,...
by Owen Stroud | Mar. 18, 2019 | Sports
Although he may not have chosen a college major, one part of Arizona Wildcat sophomore Brice Vooletich’s athletic career seems to have been decided by genetics.The No. 89 wide receiver’s father was Brian Vooletich, an alum of the Michigan State Spartan’s football...
by Owen Stroud | Mar. 18, 2019 | Sports
The high-school stats—55 solo tackles, averaging 5.8 per game across 19 varsity games played—easily explain why Arizona Wildcat Dayven Coleman made it from West Mesquite High School to a PAC-12 football team.But there are more accolades in the 6-foot-2,...
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