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We’re Shutting Down to Protest SOPA

We’re Shutting Down to Protest SOPA

We’re shutting down our website tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18th in protest of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act  (SOPA).…

Best Performing City in 2011: San Antonio

Best Performing City in 2011: San Antonio

Good news for San Antonio as the Milken Institute has ranked them first in their…

Are Texan Attitudes Changing Toward the Death Penalty?

Are Texan Attitudes Changing Toward the Death Penalty?

Last September, at the final stop of his stay on Texas’s death row, convicted murderer…

Anti-Ghost-Voting Machines Disappear

Anti-Ghost-Voting Machines Disappear

No one in the Texas House can say for sure why $130,000 worth of equipment…

State Government

Daily House Calendar

SB 1471             West SP: Naishtat Relating to the recusal or disqualification of a statutory probate judge or other judge authorized to hear probate, guardianship, or mental health matters, and…

Items Eligible for Consideration

ELIGIBLE AT 4:10 PM MAY 18, 2013: HB 1296             Alvarado / Davis, John / Muoz, Jr. Relating to information regarding postsecondary education and career opportunities and workforce needs in…

Pre-Filed Amendments Calendar

 Prefiled Amendments Calendar – Monday, May 20, 2013 You can read the rest of this article at: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/calendars/html/H920130520.htm…

Corruption

Publicly-funded gondolas a ‘viable transportation alternative’ for Round Rock, Texas?

Publicly-funded gondolas a ‘viable transportation alternative’ for Round Rock, Texas?

When one of the most innovative cities in America takes its first crack at mass transit you can bet it won’t…

Governor

[Press Release] Gov. Rick Perry Applauds Efforts to Improve Affordability at Texas Tech University System and University of Houston System

Gov. Rick Perry Applauds Efforts to Improve Affordability at Texas Tech University System and University of Houston System Gov. Rick Perry today applauded both the Texas Tech…

Senate

Administration

COMMITTEE: Administration TIME DATE: 9:00 AM, Monday, May 20, 2013 PLACE: E1.714 CHAIR: Senator Kevin Eltife You can read the rest of this article at: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/schedules/html/C5002013052009001.htm…

House

Daily House Calendar

SB 1471             West SP: Naishtat Relating to the recusal or disqualification of a statutory probate judge or other judge authorized to hear probate, guardianship, or mental health matters,…

US Congress

Johnson: IRS as a political weapon is unacceptable

Johnson: IRS as a political weapon is unacceptable Washington, May 15 - Today, U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in response…

Courts

Fresh off reform vote, Mongolian bar president visits North Texas legal mentors

Email This Print Comments Trackbacks   The president of Mongolia’s top lawyers’ association was in Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday for meetings on how to improve the country’s…

State Board of Education

Let’s seize the chance to shape Texas education policy

The smothering influence of politics on state board decisions isn’t a partisan problem. Many of the most controversial decisions on the state board aren’t made on party-line…

Economy

When life gives you lemons… or hops

Last week’s Derecho, or land hurricane, which pummeled the Mid-Atlantic States put a crinkle in Port City Brewing’s production schedule. The Alexandria, VA craft brewery lost power…

Social Issues

A Win for Texas: Proposed Limits on Investment by Judges in For-Profit Prisons

Matt Simpson Policy Strategist On Tuesday, the Senate Jurisprudence Committee will hear HB 62, a bill filed by Representative Ryan Guillen that proposes to limit investments by…