Incarceration devastates thousands of Texans every year with consequences rippling through an individual’s entire family, as a mother of three recently testified before the Texas House Corrections Committee. “Once you lose your kids, it’s hard to find anything else to fight for,” said Maggie Luna, a formerly incarcerated woman who spoke in favor of legislation that would...
It is the responsibility of the U.S. government to secure the border and protect American citizens. After years of inaction by the Biden administration, the state of Texas has utilized its authority to respond to the crisis. In June, Gov. Abbott directed that a marine barrier be placed in the Rio Grande to deter migrant...
U.S Congressman Greg Casar recently went on a food and “thirst strike” for eight hours, for which he was mocked relentlessly online. As many people rightly pointed out, most people go without food and water for this long every 24 hours; it’s called sleeping. Nevertheless, Casar fasted to make a point—that House Bill 2127, a...
Along the coast of Rhode Island, a 10-story steel tube is being hauled on the first trip to the construction site. A ship hauls a monopile, weighing more than 700 tons, 15 miles offshore. The massive metal structure is hammered into the seabed with the assistance of a jack plate barge. The ship then returns...
In Austin, one team remains undefeated. Not the Longhorns—rather, city officials’ propensity to spend Other People’s Money as though it were a professional sport. And while it might make progressives on City Council temporarily feel good, their excesses come with a big price tag. In fact, the average Austin homeowner paid $9,219 in property taxes...
The courthouse is a very bleak house, indeed. Injustice makes it so—especially when it’s justice for some, but not for all. One judge I know says she looks forward to the adoptions she officiates: “An adoption is just about the only time people come to the courthouse and everyone leaves happy,” she told me. “For...
$2,800 is how much energy costs spiked for an average family per year, thanks to Bidenomics While jetting across the country trumpeting the supposed success of “Bidenomics,” Vice President Kamala Harris had this to say, “Most Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy.” What’s not to love? The White House must not be seeing the...
Americans are wise to the Biden crime family’s long history of corruption Really? Are we back to “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”? Because that’s what Democrats spinning the testimony of Biden family associate Devon Archer on Monday are going with, contending that the president may have sat in on some phone...
The city of Lubbock recently signaled that it may soon raise taxes, despite mounting economic and inflationary pressures on the family budget. On Tuesday, KCBD reported that: “The city is considering a property tax rate increase of nearly one-and-a-half cents…That means residents would [sic] bay an additional $110 in property taxes next year.” A tax...
I was watching Taylor Sheridan’s new series “Lioness” recently, and I was surprised that a specific scene was actually aired—not because it was shocking, but because it was true. A hot extraction for a CIA operative in a rural south Texas town was going down, and when it was accomplished, one agent expressed his fear...
La Joya ISD Superintendent Gisela Saenz resigned her position in the spring, after she supported a plan that would close two elementary schools and lay off 120 employees—this after LJISD used more than $20 million in public funds to buy an entire water park, including tube slides and a lazy river. The troubled school district—which...
“We knew it was coming,” Francisco Nuñez says. Housing is in such high demand in Austin right now that Nunez wonders if he can afford to stay in the city. In 2020, Austin gained an average of 180 new residents a day, causing a shortage of homes and driving up home prices dramatically. This demand,...