On Monday, a laundry list of left-leaning groups held the “Rally for our UT! Stop the Purge” protest to air their grievances against the state’s new commonsense law to curtail DEI programs at colleges and universities. The assembly of aggrieved—which included the Texas State Employees Union, the American Association of University Professors-UT Branch, NAACP, Texas...
On Saturday, voters around the state will say YEA or NAY to at least 270 separate bond propositions worth an estimated $17.4 billion in new debt (principal only). Any new debt endorsed by voters will, once issued, be added to the existing local debt service outstanding amount, estimated at $461.3 billion in FY 2023, as...
Omnibus spending bill that included Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was unlawful. The Biden administration seems willing to violate any law or constitutional principle in its weaponized-government approach to the November election. On Monday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published new rules for pregnant workers that includes benefits for abortion — based on a law that has already been declared...
Texas’ “most progressive” school district—Austin ISD—continues to be a shining example of all that’s wrong in public education. To start, it was recently revealed that AISD is likely facing a $60 million budget deficit for the upcoming 2024-25 school year. But rather than reduce spending to close the gap, district officials appeared content “to [only]...
Recently, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced a new bill with former President Donald Trump addressing crucial issues surrounding noncitizen voting. The bill, authored by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who has previously drafted similar legislation, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Already some outlets are falsely assuming that any legislation...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I discuss the week’s Winners & Losers on the Cardle & Woolley show on Austin’s 1370 Talk Radio. It’s a lightning round with Jim Cardle, Lynn Woolley and me that runs the gamut from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. We...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. New data from the Texas Education Agency is adding fuel to the debate over parental choice and financing education. Each year TEA publishes the salaries of each of the superintendents...
Recent efforts to ban non-citizen voting in the United States have been met with ridicule and disdain by the Left in coffee shops and classrooms across America. Liberals point out that non-citizen voting is already banned but, while this may be true, those laws only require people to check a box on the federal voter...
At the detriment of our public discourse and the accuracy and fairness of our elections, conversations regarding verifiable fraud in the voting process have been relegated to either always being believed or always shunned by the loudest, most hyper-partisan voices in the room. However, nearly none of the most hardened voices on either side of...
USAA was ‘founded on military values.’ Now it embraces leftist ideas, transgender ideology, and corporate cancel culture. Mention the word “debanked,” and some might think you stuttered or misspoke. Explain what debanking is — financial institutions canceling a customer over his politics — and most will think you’re paranoid. Yet from oil and gas service firms...
The latest HPD scandal underscores a national problem. Commit a crime, get caught and go to jail — directly to jail. It’s the justice lesson we learned growing up, but it’s far from reality in cities across the nation, where clearance rates are abominably low. News out of Houston is compounding the issue of unsolved crimes after the Houston...
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has just released some revealing new data on public school superintendent salaries—and the detail has already prompted a bit of minor outrage online. The dissatisfaction appears rooted in the fact that, despite lackluster student outcomes and a persistent affordability crisis, the top-end of the superintendent salary spectrum grew to astounding...