The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 7th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature was featured yesterday in Jason Embry’s “Capitol Minute,” a new feature on Statesman.com. The clip features a brief interview between Austin American-Statesman reporter Jason Embry and David Guenthner, the Foundation’s Director of Media and Government Relations.
Taxes & Spending
May 2026’s Top 10 Most Expensive School Bonds
Next month, independent school districts (ISDs) will, again, ask voters to approve massive new borrowing schemes that threaten to unleash a wave of tax hikes and bigger bureaucracies. These fiscal excesses appear widespread too. Taxpayers in nearly 60 different counties will decide on one or more of the 109 individual propositions up for a vote this election cycle, according to the Texas Bond Review Board’s (BRB’s) bond election database. If these measures are entirely successful,...
April 21, 2026