Economy
Eliminating the Ex-Im Bank a good first step toward rebuilding the economy
Allowing the bank’s charter to expire would be a good start toward rebuilding a strong U.S. economy.
June 16, 2015
Criminal Justice
Banner session for Texas criminal justice reform
Even before the last gavel ended the 84th Texas Legislature, much of the media coverage began centering on the failures and disappointments regarding many key issues. Unfortunately, this gloom-and-doom rhetoric has overshadowed many unprecedented successes and reforms, particularly in criminal justice.
June 16, 2015
Health Care
Texas moves backwards on telemedicine
Despite the potential for telemedicine to increase access to care in Texas, state regulatory agencies and lawmakers have failed to pave the way for innovation, and in fact have worked to thwart the innovative use of emerging health care technologies like telemedicine.
June 15, 2015
Energy & Environment
Texas must plan for adequate water supplies
Nonetheless, population growth in the Lone Star State is expected to continue for the foreseeable future and Texas must create plans to develop, conserve, and use water resources responsibly.
June 15, 2015
Higher Education
Leftist Professors: We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us
How have universities, whose defining mission requires that students examine some thoughts and projects that might prove to be unsettling, become such havens of monochrome thinking?
June 15, 2015
Criminal Justice
Too many female U.S. prisoners
From 1980 to 2010, the number of female prisoners multiplied by 646 percent — increasing from about 15,000 to 113,000 inmates nationally. That spike is 150 percent the rate of male prisoners during that time period.
June 15, 2015
Economy
Texas shows policy is better than luck
With the ongoing weakness in the price of oil, the Legislature’s work will go a long way toward showing critics that Texas’ success has more to do with good public policy than with good luck. Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voices/article23915161.html#storylink=cpy
June 12, 2015
Economy
How can Illinois fix its pension problems? Ask Wisconsin
Because pension reforms always will face a legal challenge, creative changes are needed.
June 11, 2015
Taxes & Spending
Regulations could top taxes as enemy of small business
The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that the Obama administration issued 81 major regulations per year for more than six years, more than one and a half per week, at a compliance cost exceeding the combined total of individual and corporate federal income taxes by $160 billion.
June 9, 2015
Higher Education
Hazlewood should focus on veterans, not legacies
Hazlewood’s costs will continue to soar. Cash-strapped college students will still be made to foot most of the bill.
June 9, 2015
Criminal Justice
Legal reforms provide backdoor to state’s economic prosperity
Much of that success has been fostered by reducing the number of restrictions on private enterprise. There’s even a moniker for the state’s particular combination of limited government policies -- the Texas Model.
June 8, 2015
Taxes & Spending
Texas Legislature improves the Texas model with conservative budget
Overall, the strides taken this session by legislators to pass pro-growth policies will contribute to improving the Texas model and contribute to more opportunities for homeowners, entrepreneurs and will help all Texans to prosper.
June 7, 2015