NPR's Morning Edition features a story on the land dispute between the federal government and the landowners, represented by the Texas Public Policy's Center for the American Future, fighting to protect their private property and homes.
The policies of the United States should not doom third world countries to a lifetime of poverty. Allowing everyone to unleash the potential prosperity and health generated by fossil fuels is how we transform society. Everyone deserves to have the same benefits we enjoy.
The key to solving Texas’ pension problems hinge on eliminating this outdated, unworkable system and transitioning to a defined contribution model, a type of retirement program that is both sustainable and reliable for all involved.
A problem with much of the energy-policy discourse on the Presidential stage now is that many of the policies proposed actually present Americans with less energy availability — and at sharply higher prices.
While title insurance is an important service, providing assurance to real estate buyers in the case of defective deeds, that doesn’t mean that big government is needed to make it work.
Over the last decade, Texas has added 1.3 million jobs—the most of any state in the country—and has become the nation’s leader in exports.
'40 percent of millennials' today approve of censorship, far more than Gen Xers (27 percent), Boomers (24 percent), and Silents (12 percent).
To provide increased budget transparency, the Foundation released six papers in the Spotlight series that highlight each of the ten articles of the Texas budget. In addition to providing taxpayers with timely information about where their tax dollars are going, this series also provides more information about budget trends since the 2004-05 budget in each article and identifies functions that increase by more than 6.5 percent from the previous budget.
On top of this enrollment drop, state lawmakers have threated to cut the school’s funding, while nearly $2 million in donor pledges have been rescinded. I, for one, hoped that the situation at Mizzou would restore sanity on our college campuses. Other universities might see the writing on the wall and get back to the real business of higher education.
Moreover, the Constitution crafted at the Philadelphia Convention is among the greatest, if not the greatest, governing document produced in history. If it was the child of a 'runaway convention,' then, given the crisis of our overreaching federal government, one is inclined to suggest that we have another.
From 1974-75 to 2012-13, tuition fees nationwide rose 138 percent in constant dollars at public four-year universities receiving state appropriations and nearly the same - 131 percent - at private universities getting little or no appropriations.
The federal government is overdue in taking a step forward for a system that is gravely lagging behind the states and the success they have seen with right-sizing their criminal justice system.