edited by: Ted McLaughlin,
Texas Editor
We already know that the next Legislative session will be a whole lot of no fun thanks to declining revenue estimates and our structural deficits. Here’s a further illustration of the problem.
The current state budget is financed with $12 billion of one-time money (add to the stimulus money [...]
Wrote about this yesterday-saw this in the FW Press today
Not everyone is opposed to the plants. The city of Glen Rose, which stands to get huge amounts of tax money from the expanded plant, has publicly supported the proposal, and many Glen Rose citizens say they are happy with [...]
With Tom Schieffer dropping out of the race for Governor and strongly encouraging Mayor Bill White to run, it leaves the race wide open for Democratic pretenders, Farook Shami, and Kinky Friedman to drop out before being embarrassed.
Running for Governor in a state as large as Texas requires money, [...]
You know, if they really want to do this, why don't they quit taking taxpayer money and operate a religious school. Nothing stops them from doing that.
The Idaho Attorney General's office has told Nampa Classical Academy officials the state won't back down from pursuing information about the charter school's' [...]
"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions"--James Madison [...] Even money says that you did not watch Bill Moyers Journal on PBS last night. Did you? Thought not. I did.
I found his commentary very interesting and extremely relevant. He equated President Lyndon Johnson’s march to war in Vietnam to the pressure President Obama is now under (mostly from the [...]
"It's our money" dammit!From the Waco Trib -Understand that every Republican except Michael Burgess of Lewsville voted No. So Chet Edwards voted with the Republicans.
Dr. Thomas Valigura, a Waco anesthesiologist who is president of the McLennan County Medical Society, said he understands concerns about the national debt. But fixing physician payments is critical, [...]
Farouk Shami announces and the race shrinks, effectively, to two. Anyone dazzled by Kinky now folds to Shami and Schieffer hasn't a chance to beat him in a money war (not to mention that Schieffer generates the same buzz and excitement as a bowl of cold vegetable soup)' [...]
Everyone knows who David “Dave” Wilson is by now, right? In case you forgot … he is the “anti-gay” activist that caused a [...]
