Texas Comptroller Gives Legislature More Money to Spend

But don’t go crazy y’all

"...Texas State Comptroller Glenn Hegar, the most normal dude in..."

Jan. 11, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Opinion: Don’t Ask Texas Schoolchildren to Fund Your Corporate Expansion

Central Texas Interfaith calls on tech companies to withdraw their applications for Chapter 313 tax breaks

"...Central Texas schoolchildren and taxpayers are getting ripped off by large..."

April 22, 2022 Column by Michael Floyd

First-Ever Appraisal District Election Is Small Battle in GOP-Dem War Over Taxation in Texas

Elected Dem- or GOP-backed candidates would have outsized power over district

"...For the first time ever, voters across Texas will be asked to elect some of the people..."

April 5, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas DOGE Committee Looks to Form $88M State Cybersecurity Agency

Cyber Command would dramatically expand spending on cybersecurity

"...Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott declared creating a Texas cybersecurity agency an emergency item this legislative session...."

March 28, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

God, Texas, and Film Incentives

The devil's in the details for Texas' multibillion dollar plan

"...in film and TV incentives in the history of Texas. However, stumbling blocks that could make its passage into..."

April 24, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Behold the Texas Miracle!

The Texas Miracle has a very mixed record on state prosperity

"...– are familiar with the political rhetoric of the "Texas Miracle." Coined by state business boosters to describe the..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Amid Chaos and Crisis, the 87th Texas Legislature Gets to Work

Can we rebuild a democracy?

"...in the face. In between these Wednesdays, the 87th Texas Legislature came into being, as happens every two years..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Court Rules Texas School Finance Unconstitutional

Dietz says current system fails students, must be rebuilt

"...In a long-awaited turn for Texas education, Judge John Dietz today issued his final ruling..."

Aug. 28, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Perry Rejects Health Care for Texas

Governor throws away $13 billion in funds

"...Just because the US Supreme Court tells Texas that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, that doesn't..."

July 9, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc Recommends: How to Secede in Texas Without Really Trying

Esther's Follies, Friday, July 31, 2009

"...Texas is a really big state. Crazy big. Emphasis on..."

July 31, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Texas Feels Ripple Effects From Green Investment Ban

Blocking environmentally minded investment is harder than it may seem

"...The repercussions of Texas' new laws targeting "woke" financial firms that seek to..."

Sept. 9, 2022 News Feature by Isabel Maney

Texas Senate Education Committee Advances Its Own School Finance Plan

SB 4 would essentially gut the House version of the bill

"...The Texas Senate Education Committee voted 8-0-3 to advance a fleshed..."

May 1, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Election Coverage: The Texas Lege: A Tight Squeeze

Texas Dems put incumbents through the wringer

"...Wendy Davis. Relatively popular and uncontroversial incumbents such as Comptroller Glenn Hegar, Land Commissioner George P. Bush, and Railroad..."

Nov. 9, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Current Texas Political Thought

Republicans support same-sex unions? Really?

"...and political candidates in the latest edition of the Texas Lyceum Poll, that gay unions thing certainly jumped out..."

June 24, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Does Harry Potter Cause Sexual Violence? Only in Texas.

Defending a new nudity tax, the AG says topless bars cause sexual violence

"...On Dec. 17, the state comptroller successfully fought off a request for a temporary injunction..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Family Values

Why don't we protect Texas children? Because we'd rather not spend the money.

"...the official radar screen. The alarming condition of the Texas agency charged with protecting the state's most vulnerable people..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Deep in the Heart of Texas Political Scandals

Crimes, carousing, and contravention from the Capitol grounds

"...are even willing to get caught riding around North Texas with three prostitutes in their whip. Rounding out the..."

Jan. 6, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Comptroller Touts Her Open-Book Policy

Susan Combs holds up her agency as a model of state transparency

"...That's how state Comptroller Susan Combs said she hopes she can cut down..."

Dec. 12, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas Oil Working in Sudan

Companies with international subsidiaries still doing business there

"...the Stop the Darfur Genocide Act, which requires the Texas Employees Retirement System and the Teacher Retirement System to..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Comptroller's Cupboard Not Bare

Texas confirms it actually has the money to pay employees the raise it promised them.

"...everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, because State Comptroller Susan Combs has worked out that there’s actually the..."

July 10, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Strayhorn Says Accenture Taking Texas to Cleaners

Comptroller releases report charging that agreement between Accenture and Health and Human Services Commission was crafted to benefit Accenture's bottom line, and that the company has already profited despite series of missteps

"...Can 60 legislators, two gubernatorial candidates, and the Texas State Employees Union be wrong about Accenture? Gov. Rick..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...moment captured the underlying conflict leading into the 85th Texas Legislature, it came on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan...."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Lege Looks to Address Flooding and Drought Without Saying "Climate Change"

Dipping a toe into a pool of options – and money

"...Last week the Texas Water Foundation announced the first Water Caucus in Texas..."

Feb. 3, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Overdose Reversal Training Brings Supplies, Education to Texas State University

To serve and inject

"...exposures in the United States?" Callie Crow asked the Texas State University Police Department last Thursday at TXST's Round..."

Nov. 11, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Texas Dems Go to Court to Block Abbott's Funding Veto

Filing says governor's defunding of Lege is invalid

"...18 issued his stunt veto of funding for the Texas Legis­lature in the upcoming biennial budget, to "punish" the..."

July 2, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Rep. Celia Israel on the 86th Texas Legislature

“Pandering to 3% of the electorate is not in anyone's best interest”

"...system "byzantine" … if I were the queen of Texas, I would have already called a special session. I..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas School Funding

Still unconstitutional

"...terrible case of déjà vu. In 2004, he told Texas lawmakers that the state's public school-finance system failed to..."

Sept. 5, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Things to Do in Texas When You're Lege

The special agenda is not so special

"...What could Texas be doing if we weren't doing re-re-redistricting?..."

June 7, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Texas Brinkmanship

State report card shows plenty of room for improvement

"...Browsing through the latest edition of "Texas on the Brink" does not exactly evoke pride in..."

April 19, 2013 News Column by Michael King

DNC Does the Texas Waltz

National Dems have high hopes for Texas ... one of these days

"...it been since the Demo­crat­ic National Committee met in Texas? Longer than most of its members could recall. So..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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