25th Anniversary at the Alamo

Houston’s Fat Cat Superintendents: The Hidden Benefits How Some of Texas’s Highest-Paid Public Employees Are Systematically Underreporting Their Compensation

Exorbitant and hidden superintendent pay reflects a culture of self-enrichment that has no place in Texas public schools, diverts taxpayer dollars from students, and betrays the public trust. Key points: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) understates the total compensation for some of Texas’s highest-paid superintendents. Though they oversee fewer people, many superintendents have drawn a...

TOMORROW: TPPF hosts Wage Wars: An Interactive Economic Experiment

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) will host a “Wage Wars: An Interactive Economic Experiment” TOMORROW, Thursday, July 30, at 3:00 p.m. in the Red McCombs Event Center at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The event will be held in honor of Milton Friedman Legacy Day and explores how government-mandated minimum wage salaries affect employers and employees alike.

‘Rockin’ the Wall’ explores music’s role in the Berlin Wall’s collapse

In the end, the Berlin Wall, the most tangible relic of the contest between freedom and the ideology of militarized collectivism, came down without a shot being fired on November 9, 1989.