Why is Austin ISD considering a near double-digit budget increase while student enrollment is declining and property tax bills are soaring?
Texas’ index crime rate has dropped 21 percent, exceeding the nationwide decline.
This means that, of all the students who enroll in college, only 32 percent succeed in acquiring both a degree and the knowledge that a degree is meant to signify.
The roughly 60 percent drop in oil prices to around $40 per barrel since last summer and global economic weaknesses, including less exports to China, are drags on the Texas economy.
Long term, Texans would be best served by abolishing local property taxes and replacing them with a reformed sales tax.
Free market opponents of corporate welfare may appear to be out of the mainstream, but the tide can turn.
Texas’ 4.2 percent unemployment rate in July marks the 103rd straight month it has been at or below the U.S. average.
We are concerned by research showing that over the past 40 years the bulk of university budget increases have not gone to teaching and learning, but to administration.
Fear, intimidation, and uniformity are usurping the free, robust inquiry and debate that is the lifeblood of a genuine institution of higher learning, undermining both academic truth-seeking and democracy, which depends on an informed citizenry.
Justice – fair play – as well as public confidence in law enforcement, is far too important an asset to throw away on continuing cash forfeitures under federal law.
If the new “Hauler for Hire” license only required payment of $100, the burden on the working poor might not be too onerous. But, licensing itself brings additional requirements.
Texans can hope that the court this time around will require public education to efficiently deliver our children to graduation without again running out of fuel.