Every Friday morning at 8:30AM I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers in Texas, America and the world. This week, there’s lot of emphasis on the world as the week has winners and losers across the globe: Here’s the list for this...
Every even-numbered year, the state’s Legislative Budget Board (LBB) publishes a helpful, user-friendly summation of the General Appropriations Act (GAA), otherwise known as the state’s two-year budget. On Wednesday, the LBB published the next iteration—its 2024-25 Fiscal Size-Up. From a 30,000 ft. level, this new report provides “a comprehensive review of how tax dollars were...
Texas secured three judicial victories in recent days—is this the start of a winning streak for national security? First, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the state’s buoy barrier could remain in the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass. In 2023, the state of Texas installed a 1,000-foot marine buoy...
Officials knew the Vineyard Wind project came with risks — but they pushed ahead anyway, in pursuit of the Biden-Harris Green New Deal. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Vineyard Wind, the New England offshore energy project that the Biden-Harris “Green New Deal” depends upon. Last week, a Boston appellate court heard arguments on...
Have we Americans not learned our lesson about Central Counts? The City of Oshkosh in Wisconsin, a contentious swing state in the upcoming election, recently passed a resolution to begin using Central Counts to process absentee ballots. At a Central Count Location, election inspectors must assign each voter’s absentee ballot a number, and they must...
A well-known taxpayer funded lobbyist told a conference of school board trustees to weaponize teacher pay so teachers would be motivated to lobby the legislature and vote differently at the ballot box. This revelation comes from Rob McClelland, a Dripping Springs ISD trustee who was at a June meeting hosted by the Texas Association of...
Recently, the Waunakee Tribune put out an op-ed claiming elections in Wisconsin are so secure that only a few felons and other ineligible voters slip through the cracks. Is this the new standard? Is this what it takes for a voter to trust that their ballot was cast in a safe and secure election? The...
Houston ISD is refusing to turn over documents that would help explain how it spent nearly $9 million relating to the development of the district’s massive $4.4 billion bond proposal. The documents would shed light on critical questions unanswered, such as the specifics of the contracts involved and whether the bidding process was competitive. Earlier...
The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) brought in a conference speaker who urged school board members to use teacher raises as a “weapon”—because they’ll need teachers angry enough to apply political pressure in the upcoming Texas legislative session. Speaking with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Mandy Drogin, Dripping Springs ISD board member Rob McClelland...
On the afternoon of July 21, the Democratic Party effectively stole an election. Fully 87% of the vote in this year’s Democratic presidential primaries — 14.4 million of the ballots cast — were discarded, sending shockwaves through the political landscape. These voters’ choice for president will not be on the ticket in November. President Joe Biden is no longer the presumptive Democratic...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. Since the first presidential debate 29 days ago, each week has been filled with historically (and politically) unprecedented events that make awarding a clear thumbs up or thumbs down challenging. It...
The left wants Americans to believe that conservatives, and in particular former president Donald Trump, are a threat to democracy in this country. But they have now discarded millions of primary election votes for President Joe Biden and anointed, without any competition or debate, Vice President Kamala Harris to be their presidential nominee. The precedent...