The Texas Title Insurance Tax – Tarrant County

Houston’s Fat Cat Superintendents: The Hidden Benefits How Some of Texas’s Highest-Paid Public Employees Are Systematically Underreporting Their Compensation

Exorbitant and hidden superintendent pay reflects a culture of self-enrichment that has no place in Texas public schools, diverts taxpayer dollars from students, and betrays the public trust. Key points: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) understates the total compensation for some of Texas’s highest-paid superintendents. Though they oversee fewer people, many superintendents have drawn a...

HB 4239 & SB 2203: The Texas Title Insurance Monopoly

Testimony on HB 4239 and SB 2203 by Bill Peacock

Heavy title insurance regulation means consumers pay more

Texas has become the nation's economic engine in large part because we have allowed competition to bring lower prices and better products in markets such as telecommunications, electricity and oil and gas. Title insurance should be no different.