by Erin Anderson | Mar. 14, 2019 | Local
Special interests are once again bankrolling Plano politics, donating to “pro-developer” council candidates backed by the city’s mayor. High-density real estate developer Sam Ware donated $1,000 each to a slate of four Plano City Council candidates backed by Mayor...
by Robert Montoya | Mar. 14, 2019 | Local
Fort Worth taxpayers have reason to be wary of city council candidates who may raise their property taxes even higher. Michael Matos, candidate for Fort Worth City Council District 7, is forming a coalition of leftists as his path to victory. In the nonpartisan race...
by 1836 Studios | Mar. 14, 2019 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Episode 76: Cary Cheshire joins Tony McDonald to discuss Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities for this session. Ross Kecseg discusses property tax relief and the lack of relief. Reagan Reed fills listeners in on a recent court ruling involving Texas’ open...
by Jacob Asmussen | Mar. 13, 2019 | Local
Boerne city officials have made their stance very clear: they don’t want citizens to have more power over their own taxes. Recently, Boerne officials sent an email to two state representatives expressing their disdain of the new statewide property tax reform. The...
by Michael Busler, Ph.D. | Mar. 13, 2019 | Commentary, Federal
President Trump recently submitted his budget plan for Fiscal Year 2020. The plan calls for a 7 percent increase in spending, bringing the total to $4.7 trillion. Tax revenue is projected to increase by 3 percent to $3.6 trillion; that will result in the deficit...
by Reagan Reed | Mar. 13, 2019 | Local
More changes are in store for the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District with the resignation of its longtime general manager, Kathy Turner Jones. The LSGCD is the government entity responsible for managing Montgomery County’s groundwater supply.Jones served as...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 13, 2019 | State
Three major items have now been heard in the Texas Senate, and three times lawmakers have unanimously bucked taxpayers and voted for bigger government. The latest example is Wednesday’s action approving a $6 billion supplemental budget. Senate Bill 500 by State...
by Jim Ellis | Mar. 13, 2019 | Commentary
As the old saying goes, “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” which is quickly becoming the case with respect to the Democratic presidential nomination campaign. With the announcement that former U.S. Representative and 2018 Texas Senate nominee Beto...
by Erin Anderson | Mar. 13, 2019 | Local
Texas Republicans got a wake-up call in November 2018, and the state party chair is enlisting activists in at-risk regions to make sure they don’t go back to sleep. Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey presented his “Red Alert Texas” strategy Monday night...
by Cary Cheshire | Mar. 13, 2019 | State
In every session the Texas Legislature passes a supplemental budget to cover shortfalls from the previous biennium. This session, the supplemental bill proposed by the Senate includes numerous expenditures out of the Economic Stabilization Fund to cover ongoing...
by Erin Anderson | Mar. 13, 2019 | Local
Plano resident and city council candidate Shelby Williams traveled to Austin at his own expense to do something his tax-hiking city council rival didn’t: stand up for his fellow city taxpayers. Williams testified at a Texas House committee hearing in favor of a bill...
by Reagan Reed | Mar. 13, 2019 | Local
Montgomery County’s Republican Party has sent a strong message against taxpayer-funded lobbying by local governments with the passage of a resolution by the party’s executive committee.In a unanimous voice vote, the MCRP’s executive committee approved a resolution...
by Robert Montoya | Mar. 13, 2019 | Commentary
Robert Francis O’Rourke’s failed senatorial campaign is the subject of a documentary called Running With Beto. The 94-minute film premiered at South by Southwest and will debut on HBO this spring. HBO said the film gives “viewers unprecedented access into the personal...
by Destin Sensky | Mar. 12, 2019 | State, Uncategorized
In the hours of testimony on House Bill 3, the so-called “Texas Plan” of House leadership to address the state’s broken school finance system, public education employees seemed to echo two common themes: more money is welcome, but merit pay is not. Administrators...
by Robert Montoya | Mar. 12, 2019 | State
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told a packed room of activists at a Northeast Tarrant Tea Party meeting that a successful legislative session was the key to holding off Democrats in 2020. “We have to have a successful session,” Patrick said before he reviewed the list of...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 12, 2019 | State, Uncategorized
On the south steps of the Texas Capitol Tuesday, State Rep. Kyle Biedermann (R–Fredericksburg) held a press conference touting recently filed legislation which would put a potential constitutional amendment for term limits for statewide officers and state legislators...
by Robert Montoya | Mar. 12, 2019 | Local
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told the audience at a grassroots conservative event in North Texas to vote for the City of Colleyville’s incumbents after hearing they support property tax reform. During Monday’s meeting of the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party, Patrick spoke...
by Saurabh Sharma | Mar. 12, 2019 | State
As the dust settles on Joe Straus’ tenure as Speaker of the Texas House, one thing is very clear: The grassroots were right about him all along. Establishment forces within the state spent a decade trying to convince us of the conservative bona fides of Straus, who is...
by Robert Montoya | Mar. 12, 2019 | Local
Frisco Mayor Pro Tem Shona Huffman argued in Austin that the state should provide incentives for cities to provide property tax relief. On February 27, the Texas House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on House Bill 2, which would put in place an automatic vote...
by Destin Sensky | Mar. 12, 2019 | State
While Republican lawmakers are leading the effort to protect the gun rights of law-abiding Texans, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Texas Gun Sense” argued for making criminals out of well-meaning Texas gun owners. The Texas House Committee on Criminal...
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