Why should Texas continue to deny parents the right and freedom to select the very best schools for their children? Nothing is more important.
"Testimony: Local Control and Liberty, HB 2595" contains Bill Peacock's testimony before the House Committee on Urban Affairs.
Even with a relatively strong economy and fiscally conservative state government during the last decade, there is room to improve Texas’ stance as the model for individual liberty and economic prosperity.
Voters aren’t provided with enough information at the ballot box to make an informed decision on debt, and it’s helping to create a tidal wave of red ink.
Despite the CPP's destructive impact on the Lone Star State, it is unclear whether the "No SIP" bill will pass this session. Some here, although they oppose the Clean Power Plan and federal overreach generally, believe the best strategy is to wait and see.
Instead of cheering lower gasoline prices, the buzz is the decline in oil prices will lead to a 1980s-style recession and demise of the Texas model’s success.
Complying with EPA's dictates will prove economically ruinous for many states and will result in a dramatic expansion of EPA authority, transforming it into something like Gosplan, the Soviet Union's old central economic-planning agency.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas recently provided evidence of continued job creation in Texas, but noted that the pace moderated recently from lower oil prices and an appreciating U.S. dollar.
Can the college student-loan debt crisis get any worse? According to the latest Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, the answer is, “Yes, and it already has.”
Our president repeatedly asserts that climate change – which now apparently means little more than bad weather - is the greatest and more immediate threat to humanity.
With billions more for transportation coupled with procurement reform this year, Texas drivers may see relief on the road ahead.
Instead, more than half of college students are “nontraditional,” a category that includes such students as those over age 25, those who work full-time, single parents, caregivers and those without a high school diploma.