Jeanette Moll: Unshackle Texas businesses.

Pflugerville ISD board member attacks parents for choosing charter schools

 Another day, another high-ranking school official attacking parents – this time with racial overtones. In a recent House Public Education hearing, the vice president of the Pflugerville ISD school board suggested that parents of “black and brown kids” are manipulated into sending their children to charter schools. She did not reference white or Asian parents,...

Why bring back a crony tax break program in Texas?

Calling business welfare, or crony capitalism, an economic development tool does not change what is happening in such transactions, nor does it make it better policy. In the 87th Session of the Texas Legislature, in 2021, a wonderful thing happened: Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code was allowed to expire without lawmakers renewing it....

5 Reasons why Gavin Newsom’s California isn’t the ‘true freedom state’

On the day Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom was sworn into his second term in office, he took to Twitter to make a remarkable—even risible—claim, that “California is the true freedom state.” Newsom went on to write, “Protecting liberty from a rising tide of oppression taking root in statehouses. Weakness, masquerading as strength. Small men...