When Hurricane Beryl approached the Texas coast, families in the storm’s path were rightly worried about gale-force winds and flooding. Power outages are always expected in hurricane season — but nobody anticipated over a million households and businesses losing power, and nobody expected 500,000 to be left high and dry a week or more later. The problem...
Growing up as the son of a Naval Reserves surgeon and medical school professor, I witnessed top-notch medical care, but I also saw firsthand the many obstacles that hinder doctors. One of the most frustrating obstacles is the burden of government regulations. In rural Texas, numerous patients rely on government-run insurance programs such as Medicare...
The 45th Legislature established the Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act (TLFFRA) in 1937 to create local retirement systems for the benefit of full-time, part-time, and volunteer firefighters in participating cities. At the time, lawmakers intended to create a general governance structure while still “leav[ing] administration, plan design, contributions, and specific investments to each system’s...
Natural gas is the reason you can tweet. Coal powers your Facebook stalking and snapchat streaks. Oil allows you to post outfits of the day and vacation updates on your Instagram. Bottom line, fossil fuels make possible the connections and conversations facilitated by social media. Without the utilization of fossil fuels, like many things in...
If you’re like me — if you’re like nearly every American last night — you reacted to the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump with shock. I’ve been fielding a million questions from my twelve-year old since we got the news, and my answers to her are tinged with the reflexive disbelief that this...
What to know: President Joe Biden is selling off more of our fuel reserves in an effort to lower gasoline prices, ABC is reporting. The TPPF take: Selling off our fuel reserves won’t fix what the Biden administration has broken. “Painful gas and diesel price hikes are a direct result of President Biden’s publicly avowed crusade to end...
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,”...
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....
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. Since the first presidential debate 29 days ago, each week has been filled with historically (and politically) unprecedented events that make awarding a clear thumbs up or thumbs down challenging. It...
Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. This week the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee grabbed almost all the awards in the final tally. I was in Milwaukee for a couple days, but also viewed the...
Every Friday morning I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers in public policy, politics, sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. After wading through the post-debate fog for the last couple weeks, here’s my list for the week ending July 12. The...
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...