City and county spending has outpaced growth in population and inflation, leading to an increase in the tax burden on Texan taxpayers. Key points: Local government spending continues to outstrip increases in both population and inflation. From 2014 to 2023, local government spending rose by 61.2%, whereas population and inflation increased by only 42.7%. Elevated...
Part 3: How Texas Can Solve Its Winter Reliability Problem Five years after Winter Storm Uri, the ERCOT grid is still not ready for the next major winter storm. The first two installments of this series showed that demand has grown more than 20% since 2021 while firm generation capacity has barely budged, and the...
As Major League Baseball prepares to open its 2026 season later this month, the return of baseball also serves as a reminder of how heated the election law debate became just a few years ago. In 2021, critics used the same “Jim Crow 2.0” label to describe Georgia’s election reform law, the Election Integrity Act...