It's time Congress did its job and clarified the scope of the CWA. If it doesn't, a growing contingent of Supreme Court Justices seems ready and able to flush the Clean Water Act.
Motorists are telling tales of roadside shakedowns, but not from masked bandits and not in days gone by. These encounters are with law enforcement — in 2016. They often start over minor traffic violations. But many end with citizens forced to defend themselves, their money seized. They find themselves stuck in a system where the presumption of innocence is tossed aside.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation testified in favor of the legislation, and we still support the policy behind it. However, with automatic license plate readers, officers can now round these warrants up rapidly, giving motorists the "silver or the lead" deal on the side of the road: Pay the fine or go to jail. Changes to how readers can be used are necessary to preserve the original intent of this legislation.
Are your property taxes too high? Are they not only high, but growing fast too? Shouldn’t there be some sort of protection against being taxed out of your home? Those are just some of the questions raised by the Texas Senate’s Select Committee on Property Tax Reform & Relief in a series of recent interim...
Given that oil prices remain less than half of what they were at their peak, all those arguing that the Texas model will fail are just wrong.
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The key to solving Texas’ pension problems hinge on eliminating this outdated, unworkable system and transitioning to a defined contribution model, a type of retirement program that is both sustainable and reliable for all involved.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).