In Austin, one team remains undefeated. Not the Longhorns—rather, city officials’ propensity to spend Other People’s Money as though it were a professional sport. And while it might make progressives on City Council temporarily feel good, their excesses come with a big price tag. In fact, the average Austin homeowner paid $9,219 in property taxes...
The courthouse is a very bleak house, indeed. Injustice makes it so—especially when it’s justice for some, but not for all. One judge I know says she looks forward to the adoptions she officiates: “An adoption is just about the only time people come to the courthouse and everyone leaves happy,” she told me. “For...
$2,800 is how much energy costs spiked for an average family per year, thanks to Bidenomics While jetting across the country trumpeting the supposed success of “Bidenomics,” Vice President Kamala Harris had this to say, “Most Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from bankruptcy.” What’s not to love? The White House must not be seeing the...
Americans are wise to the Biden crime family’s long history of corruption Really? Are we back to “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”? Because that’s what Democrats spinning the testimony of Biden family associate Devon Archer on Monday are going with, contending that the president may have sat in on some phone...
The city of Lubbock recently signaled that it may soon raise taxes, despite mounting economic and inflationary pressures on the family budget. On Tuesday, KCBD reported that: “The city is considering a property tax rate increase of nearly one-and-a-half cents…That means residents would [sic] bay an additional $110 in property taxes next year.” A tax...
I was watching Taylor Sheridan’s new series “Lioness” recently, and I was surprised that a specific scene was actually aired—not because it was shocking, but because it was true. A hot extraction for a CIA operative in a rural south Texas town was going down, and when it was accomplished, one agent expressed his fear...
La Joya ISD Superintendent Gisela Saenz resigned her position in the spring, after she supported a plan that would close two elementary schools and lay off 120 employees—this after LJISD used more than $20 million in public funds to buy an entire water park, including tube slides and a lazy river. The troubled school district—which...
“We knew it was coming,” Francisco Nuñez says. Housing is in such high demand in Austin right now that Nunez wonders if he can afford to stay in the city. In 2020, Austin gained an average of 180 new residents a day, causing a shortage of homes and driving up home prices dramatically. This demand,...
Carolina Yoc is 15 years old; she entered the United States alone to live with a relative she did not know. Once inside the border, she was moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Now, she spends her nights working in a factory with other young workers, stuffing plastic bags of cereal into passing yellow cartons. She...
Earlier this year, a concerned student at Binghamton University, a public university in New York, challenged the propriety of the school’s partnership with the China-funded Confucius Institute on its campus. Last month, the university published an imperious rebuff to the inquiry. “The campus is confident that the concerns you raise in your email do not...
As wildfires continue to burn in Canada, air quality in New York City got so bad recently that spending the day outdoors would be the equivalent to smoking half a pack of cigarettes. Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently had the worst air quality in the country. Mask-wearing has resumed in full not because of COVID-19, but because the...
California courts would be required to consider race when issuing a sentence California, that bellwether of the absurd, is about to do it again. The same legislature that rejected legislation to add human trafficking of a minor for purposes of a commercial sex act to the state’s list of “serious” felonies – until public outrage prompted...