While the Foundation’s staff was putting on last week’s Policy Orientation event, TPPF board member Jeff Sandefer was a guest on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Sandefer discussed a possible federal crackdown on private equity and the importance of entrepreneurial capitalism to reviving our national economy. The clip is about 6 minutes.
May 2026’s Top 10 Most Expensive School Bonds
Next month, independent school districts (ISDs) will, again, ask voters to approve massive new borrowing schemes that threaten to unleash a wave of tax hikes and bigger bureaucracies. These fiscal excesses appear widespread too. Taxpayers in nearly 60 different counties will decide on one or more of the 109 individual propositions up for a vote this election cycle, according to the Texas Bond Review Board’s (BRB’s) bond election database. If these measures are entirely successful,...