by Lauren Melear | Jul. 11, 2018 | Local
Midland city councilmembers kicked off the 2019 budget season Monday morning with a planning workshop, where city staff proposed larger budget allocations and a new tax rate that is likely to raise Midlanders’ property tax bills. The presentation began with a...
by Cary Cheshire | Jul. 11, 2018 | Local, Uncategorized
The host of this year’s Texas GOP Convention, San Antonio, was once again the battleground for the future of Texas. And almost 200 years later, Texans still have fire in their bellies. While prominent Republicans like Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz rallied...
by Keeley Dorman | Jul. 11, 2018 | State
A taxpayer champion and member of the Texas Freedom Caucus, State Rep. Matt Shaheen announced recently that he plans on continuing the battles for reform that were thwarted in the 85th Texas Legislature by the liberal coalition that governed the Texas House. In...
by Charles Blain | Jul. 11, 2018 | Local
If you live within the city of Houston and call 911 for a minor medical emergency, the fire department will show up and handle the situation. So long as the patient is in no immediate danger and alert enough to make medical decisions, they’ll leave. As taxpayers, many...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 10, 2018 | Local
Arlington residents will vote on whether to impose term limits on their mayors and city council members, thanks to a group of citizens who successfully petitioned to add the issue to the November ballot. Citizens presented a petition to Arlington City Council on...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The darling hope for Democrats nationwide, El Paso Democratic Congressman Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke is once again returning to California. His mission? To raise money for his campaign to “turn Texas blue” and win election to the US Senate against incumbent...
by Saurabh Sharma | Jul. 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief with the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the constitutionality of the Obama-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created under the Obama Administration as the brainchild of far-left Democrat...
by Jacob Asmussen | Jul. 10, 2018 | Local
Austinites could soon find themselves in a greater struggle to afford their homes, thanks to actions by the city council. The Austin City Council recently agreed to a $925 million bond proposal that, if approved by voters in November, will raise the tax rate by two...
by Jim Ellis | Jul. 10, 2018 | Commentary
President Donald Trump’s choice of U.S. Circuit Judge of the DC Court of Appeals Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will likely fundamentally change the 2018 Senate election cycle. With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
by Fran Rhodes | Jul. 10, 2018 | Commentary
“Summertime, and the living is easy.” Those lyrics from the famous Gershwin song conjure up memories of long lazy days, hanging out at the pool, fishing holes, baseball games, 4th of July fireworks, and burgers on the BBQ. But summertime is also the time when local...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last night, President Donald Trump exercised what he referred to as “the most important decision a President can make” when he nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring from the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh was one of the names on a...
by Saurabh Sharma | Jul. 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week, a Travis County court greenlit a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against members of Austin’s Planning Commission. The Planning Commission is the entity that makes critical decisions on land use in the City of Austin. Paxton’s lawsuit stems...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 9, 2018 | Local
Kaufman County voters are going back to the polls for a do-over election, ordered after a judge found voter fraud tainted the results of the March 6 Republican primary. Early voting started Saturday in the July 21 special election for Kaufman County Court at Law No....
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 9, 2018 | State, Uncategorized
Weeks after the Texas Supreme Court ruled against a ban on single-use plastic bags in the City of Laredo, cities across Texas with similar provisions have stopped enforcing their own bag bans and begun the process of rescinding the unconstitutional ordinances....
by Salvador Ayala | Jul. 9, 2018 | State
Last week, former U.S. Congressman and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal appeared in the Wall Street Journal opinion pages to offer a defense of school choice on moral grounds. Jindal begins by discussing the benefits that parents immediately recognize, such as better...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 9, 2018 | Local
School districts across Texas are in the process of setting budgets for the next school year. Many districts are also looking to raise property taxes to pay for budgeted spending increases — but they need voter approval. Several school boards in the Dallas-Fort Worth...
by Charles Blain | Jul. 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Following a trend of school districts around Texas issuing more debt and increasing taxes, another Houston-area district is considering asking voters to approve a record-high school bond. “When the Fort Bend ISD asked voters to approve a bond in 2014, they got what...
by Lauren Melear | Jul. 6, 2018 | Local
When the 2016 presidential election drew national attention to “fake news” and the “D.C. swamp,” a young man in Amarillo was taking on his own city’s entrenched media and local swamp. “Every other news source in Amarillo is beholden to some special interest...
by 1836 Studios | Jul. 5, 2018 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts, Uncategorized
Episode 40: Tony McDonald discusses issues from across the state with Ross Kecseg, Charles Blain, and Jacob Asmussen. Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Kara Belew called in to discuss a new property tax plan proposed by TPPF. And Michael Quinn Sullivan has this...
by Salvador Ayala | Jul. 3, 2018 | State
As the state inches closer to the next legislative session, the budget process is already underway. The biennial budget is technically a four-year project, beginning largely with the request for and submission of agency strategic plans and legislative appropriations...
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