Texas is still the special place Mbogo experienced when he arrived, standing as a bastion for freedom in the midst of increasing government encroachment out of Washington. But the fact that we allow cities to shut down businesses and reduce property values without compensation proves we have some work to do.
Vice President of National Initiatives the Honorable Chuck DeVore appeared on the Rusty Humphries Radio Show to discuss criminal justice.
The Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White discusses Stanford’s decision not to divest in fossil fuels on American Family Radio News.
But by 2014, Texas consumers were paying 14 percent less for their electricity, on average, than the rest of the nation. Market deregulation was a success.
The mainstay of base load electric generation at the lowest cost, coal provides social benefits to billions of people and offers the only affordable alternative for the more than 1 billion people who still lack access to electricity.
The median home sales price climbed 40 percent during the last five years, from $215,000 to $301,500. Meanwhile, BBC Research and Consulting reckons that up to 40,000 low-income households lacked access to rental options within their price range.
Senior Policy Analyst Kathleen Hunker testifies on the hotel occupancy tax before the City of Austin Economic Opportunity Committee
During the Great Recession and since, Texas has been America’s jobs engine, creating 34 percent of all U.S. civilian jobs during the last eight years in a state with less than 10 percent of the nation’s population.
However, no evidence suggests Texas roads are safer. In fact, DUI-related driving crashes (a violation hit hard by DRP fines) resulting in death have increased since the program's inception.
Since the 2004-05 budget, the overall budget has increased 69 percent, compared with an estimated 55 percent increase in the key measure.
Are city governments suffocating ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft with too much red tape? That was one of the many questions asked at last week’s local government forum, Is Big Government Driving Out Ridesharing?, featuring Senator Don Huffines, Austin City Councilmember Ellen Troxclair, the R Street Institute’s Josiah Neeley, and the Travis County Democratic Party’s Joe Deshotel.
Hon. Doug Domenech discusses the real history of Earth Day on The Blaze's Jacki Daily Show.