James Quintero is the policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Government for the People campaign. Since joining the Foundation in 2008, Quintero has focused extensively on: state & local government spending, taxes, debt, public pension reform, annexation, and local regulations.
Americans are deeply concerned about the cost of prescription drugs—and for good reason. Over the last decade, drug prices have outpaced inflation, and Americans are paying more than two and a half times what other wealthy nations pay for the same drugs. Most people believe high prices are simply the result of expensive research and development, which may hold for some...
Thomas said our calling as Americans is to live the Constitution’s principles, not revise them. When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took the stage recently at the University of Texas at Austin to deliver a speech marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, more than a few law students in...
On April 7, the State Board of Education is set to give its final approval to new Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), a much-needed reform to the standards that determine what educators teach. Here’s what you need to know: The current Social Studies TEKS are profoundly inadequate. The flaws of the K-8...