Although there have been many strides taken at the state level to reduce the property tax burden, local governments’ incessant and reckless spending continues to drive up the bill. Key points: In May 2026, Texas voters considered 439 bonds. Of those, 233 were approved. The passage rate for bond propositions for the May 2026 cycle...
Every spring, over 800,000 Texas students receive their university decision letters—a few paragraphs in the fanciest envelope they have ever received—informing them whether or not they were accepted into their dream college. But for many students in Texas, the dream to attend one of the state’s flagship universities will not come true, not because the...
Texas “now controls what professors can teach.” So screams the latest edition of The Atlantic. In reality, its complaint that Texas has begun to police what its public universities may teach mistakes the recovery of reason for the suppression of it. It somehow sees in the state’s modest restraints on race and sex ideology a...