At Eastridge Elementary School, Principal Genie Baca’s teachers have enough challenges. Their students are mostly refugees, recent immigrants from countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Vietnam and Burma, among many others. The parents are often shift workers at local meatpacking or poultry processing facilities, meaning that no one’s home to ensure the children are fed and...
Steve Allison, an outgoing Republican state lawmaker, ramped up the school funding debate earlier this month with a commentary in the Express-News, “Abbott duty bound to call special session on school funding” (June 9). Are Texas schools actually underfunded? Let’s look at the reality. Texas taxpayers give enormous amounts of money to public schools. According to...
It’s just a shame the media in control of the debate will be unlikely to focus on the most vital issues. The media have begun their predictable lead-up to the first presidential debate slated for June 27 with the usual question — “Do debates really matter?” — before answering it themselves. As Politico’s Jack Shafer...
Being born and raised along the Texas-Mexico border, I have firsthand experience of how the border crisis and the threat of domestic terrorism has heightened. After three years and more than 10 million illegal aliens, and after a growing increase in military base breaches, enough is enough. What more is it going to take for...
The Biden administration is planning one of the largest amnesty efforts in recent history, potentially granting legal status to over a million illegal aliens. This initiative raises significant legal, procedural, moral, and policy concerns that should worry every American. The new executive order proposed by the Biden administration, known as “Parole in Place,” aims to...
Property Rights Victory What to know: The Austin City Council voted to reduce the minimum lot size for a single-family home from allows property owners to build a home from 5,750 square feet to 1,800 square feet of land. The TPPF take: This is smart policy for addressing the housing affordability crisis. “Burdensome local zoning regulations mandating larger minimum...
Is There a Doctor in the House? What to know: A KFF poll found that voters’ most common health care priority, by far, is lowering out-of-pocket costs. The TPPF take: America needs more doctors to curb nonsensical healthcare pricing. “Fixing access in our healthcare system requires a holistic approach which cannot afford to be confined to just expanding coverage,”...
CCP Infiltration What to know: More Chinese nationals illegally entered the U.S. in two days this month than in all of 2021. The TPPF take: This phenomenon not only underscores a significant breach in national security, but also facilitates greater infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into the United States. “The U.S. must reevaluate its immigration policies to...
Since it has been unable to pass new gun restrictions through the legislative process, President Biden’s Administration is intentionally ignoring and misinterpreting well-established law to shut down lawfully operating gun dealers. TPPF Senior Attorney Matt Miller breaks down how this backdoor scheme works and explains TPPF’s lawsuit to restore Americans’ legal right to purchase firearms.
Illegal activity that harms the U.S. is coming from Mexico in much the same way as it does from other corrupt individuals in other countries the U.S. currently sanctions. Texas should compile a list of corrupt Mexican elites and request the federal government to deny them entry to the U.S. or revoke their visas. Read...
Over the past two years, some parents were shocked to learn that activists school boards, administrators, and teachers have been subjecting students to controversial subjects and material without parents’ consent. Shannon Braun was elected to the Colleyville ISD school board on a promise to protect students and parents’ rights and has been fighting ever since....
The country awakened this morning following the worst debate performance by an incumbent president in television history to find that we are basically back in the same place we were before last Thursday night. Polls taken immediately following the debate show that almost 70 percent of the country say Trump won the debate, but most of the...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. We run the gambit from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. Here’s my list for the week ending June 28. The...
Shortly after it was announced that 79 people had been arrested during the anti-Israel protests at the University of Texas at Austin in April, university officials and police reported that 45 of those arrested had no affiliation with UT. Subsequent arrests of campus protesters in Austin and around the country had similar metrics—a substantial percentage...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. We run the gambit from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. Here’s my list for the week ending June 21. The...