The Foundation’s Chief Economist, Byron Schlomach, Ph.D., will be Jon-David Wells’ guest at 4:35 p.m. tomorrow to talk about the end of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund tax. Gov. Rick Perry signed HB 735 last Friday, which will end this tax in September 2008 and save Texas consumers $210 million a year. Jon-David Wells’ show is on KLIF AM 570 in Dallas/Fort Worth, and people outside the Metroplex can listen online at www.klif.com.
Higher Education
A New Birth of Excellence: Independent Colleges and the Recovery of Academic Freedom
This week, five independent colleges—Benedictine College, Merrimack College, the University of Mount Saint Vincent, Bellevue University, and Houston Christian University—announced that they have joined as founding members of the National Association for Academic Excellence (NAAE). Their move could be momentous. Spanning New England to Texas and the Great Plains, these institutions are helping to build...
October 20, 2026