CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — Jorge Mijares left Venezuela months ago — last November, he says. He’s been in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande River from El Paso, for four weeks. But he planned to cross over Thursday night, as Title 42 immigration restrictions ended. “I have the app,” said Mijares, 54. “I’m just waiting for it...
Student loans operate very strangely in this country. A student borrows money from the federal government to pay for higher education expenses—thus, there are three parties involved (the student, the government, and the college or university). But only two of them face any risk from the loan. The student faces severe financial consequences if he...
If the Biden administration’s net zero green new deal goals are even to be attempted, offshore wind is the key. Particularly for the states in the northeastern United States (which unlike West Texas, don’t have miles and miles of empty prairies), green dreams must go offshore. But as Thomas Sowell tells us, there are no solutions – there...
Carbon capture is like burning witches. In the 15th to 17th centuries, the elite in Europe and the United States believed that “evil humans were negatively affecting the climate and weather patterns.” The people were demanding something — anything — be done about famine and crop failure. There must be consequences, facts be damned, so...
Texans are eager for massive property tax relief and policymakers appear ready to deliver. However, while there is broad agreement on the need for relief and the political will to see it through, there are competing visions on how to get it done. In the Texas House, lawmakers are supporting a plan that hinges on...
On Saturday, voters will decide the fate of 291 separate bond propositions that could add as much as $30 billion in new debt (principal only) to Texas’ already substantial burden. As The Texan reported late last year, local government debt totaled $417 billion in 2022, which “represents roughly $14,000 in debt per resident of Texas,...
Russian media reported last August that 3.4 million Ukrainians, of whom 555,000 were children, were in Russia as a result of the war. In Russia’s two-stage invasion of Ukraine — the first in 2014 in the Donbas regions of Luhansk and Donetsk and the Crimean Peninsula, and then in 2022 to today throughout the eastern...
Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published a video that highlighted the woke indoctrination that’s going in in Texas schools—even, and especially, in rural Texas. I’m sad to say that in the short time since we published that video, we’ve uncovered more than enough additional evidence of indoctrination to publish another video—or two. The next...
In its second meeting of the year, the State Board of Education (SBOE) took three critical votes which will: improve the TEKS drafting work groups, allow better communication during the charter school application process, and protect children from obscene library materials. Improving TEKS Drafting: The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are the state standards...
Mexico’s president, the increasingly authoritarian and erratic leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, visited Veracruz this past Friday to commemorate the 1914 American occupation of that city. In his remarks was a startling declaration: the Mexican state and military, under his leadership, will defend Mexico’s criminal cartels from the Americans. “There is talk in the United...
In this highly televised and chronicled age, we’ve all watched in horror as too many of our communities, whether it’s nearby or across the country, decline, fall apart, or descend into chaos. We ask ourselves – what could have been done differently? And we pray to the Lord above that we have the wisdom to...
Free-market reforms are the key to solving Texas’ housing affordability crisis. That’s the main takeaway from an insightful new Forbes article authored by Jared Meyer as he surveys the state of play in the Lone Star State. To bolster his thesis, Meyer cites several legislative proposals currently being debated at the statehouse that promise to...