Texans are eager for massive property tax relief and policymakers appear ready to deliver. However, while there is broad agreement on the need for relief and the political will to see it through, there are competing visions on how to get it done. In the Texas House, lawmakers are supporting a plan that hinges on...
On Saturday, voters will decide the fate of 291 separate bond propositions that could add as much as $30 billion in new debt (principal only) to Texas’ already substantial burden. As The Texan reported late last year, local government debt totaled $417 billion in 2022, which “represents roughly $14,000 in debt per resident of Texas,...
Russian media reported last August that 3.4 million Ukrainians, of whom 555,000 were children, were in Russia as a result of the war. In Russia’s two-stage invasion of Ukraine — the first in 2014 in the Donbas regions of Luhansk and Donetsk and the Crimean Peninsula, and then in 2022 to today throughout the eastern...
Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published a video that highlighted the woke indoctrination that’s going in in Texas schools—even, and especially, in rural Texas. I’m sad to say that in the short time since we published that video, we’ve uncovered more than enough additional evidence of indoctrination to publish another video—or two. The next...
In its second meeting of the year, the State Board of Education (SBOE) took three critical votes which will: improve the TEKS drafting work groups, allow better communication during the charter school application process, and protect children from obscene library materials. Improving TEKS Drafting: The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are the state standards...
Mexico’s president, the increasingly authoritarian and erratic leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, visited Veracruz this past Friday to commemorate the 1914 American occupation of that city. In his remarks was a startling declaration: the Mexican state and military, under his leadership, will defend Mexico’s criminal cartels from the Americans. “There is talk in the United...
In this highly televised and chronicled age, we’ve all watched in horror as too many of our communities, whether it’s nearby or across the country, decline, fall apart, or descend into chaos. We ask ourselves – what could have been done differently? And we pray to the Lord above that we have the wisdom to...
Free-market reforms are the key to solving Texas’ housing affordability crisis. That’s the main takeaway from an insightful new Forbes article authored by Jared Meyer as he surveys the state of play in the Lone Star State. To bolster his thesis, Meyer cites several legislative proposals currently being debated at the statehouse that promise to...
We are guilty because we lure them here with the imagery of a safe-haven nation conjured up by Emma Lazarus’ poem ‘The New Colossus.’ We stopped being that nation decades ago. Mexico’s criminal cartels view unaccompanied migrant children as “the product,” and the Biden administration treats them as such. Our current immigration system is a modern-day...
The recent Discord leak reveals just how significantly overclassified government documents and intelligence have become. As a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer, I was struck by three things about the recent Discord leaks of classified information. First, that top secret information is far more widely distributed than it was 25 years ago, and second, that...
Mississippi, along with states across the nation, will recognize National Crime Victims’ Rights Week April 23 through 29. And it’s personal for me. For my family, this recognition hits home. In 2018, one of my children was a victim of a serious crime, a crime that sent a ripple effect through every member of my...
Remember this? In 2010, the Obama administration pledged to end homelessness in 10 years. “The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious plan that aspires to end homelessness among some of society’s most vulnerable groups within the next decade,” McClatchy reported on June 22, 2010. “’Opening Doors,’ a ‘Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End...