Transcript: Local Choice: A New…

Transcript: Local Choice: A New Idea for Freedom in Texas Education

TPPF statement on delay of ObamaCare employer mandate

Texas leads in exports for the 12th consecutive year.

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Kathleen Hartnett White, Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and the Director for the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment, authored A Gathering Storm in today’s National Review Online. White writes: ” ‘The debate is settled,’ said the president in his State of the Union address. ‘Climate change is a fact.’...

TPPF releases An Overview of Local Economic Development Policies in Texas

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s experts and leadership will deliver an analysis and response to the President’s State of the Union address in an open conference call for media at 10:30 a.m. Central Time tomorrow, Wednesday, January 29th, 2014. This is an excellent opportunity to speak directly with the Foundation’s leadership on the...

TPPF Policy Orientation panel and keynote speaker videos available online

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released a new Energy Brief, Debunking the Myth: Texas is not Running Out of Electricity-The Generators. The Brief contrasts the mixed messages from generators about the ability of the Texas market to maintain resource adequacy.  “Texas’ competitive electricity market can be profitable for both generators and consumers,”...

New Foundation paper highlights the profitability of the Texas electricity market

AUSTIN – Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, issued this statement on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade report:  “For the 12th year in a row Texas is the nation’s top exporting state. The Lone Star State continues to benefit from a well-diversified economy, limited government, and pro-growth...

TPPF statement on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Program

AUSTIN –  Arlene Wohlgemuth, Director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Health Care Policy, issued this statement today on the news that the White House is delaying the implementation of the ObamaCare employer mandate for mid-sized companies until 2016:             “Today’s questionably legal Executive revision to the Affordable Care Act affirms what the Foundation...

TPPF releases Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature panel and keynote speaker videos are available online. During this year’s three day conference speakers included national leaders like Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Ted Cruz, and Attorney General Greg Abbott. To view the Policy Orientation panels and keynote presentations online visit: http://bit.ly/1jgDvCw....

TPPF statement on Brattle Group Report

  Statement by Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Director of TPPF’s Center for Higher Education:  “After decades of skyrocketing college tuitions and student-loan debt, it is heartening to see something being done about it. South Texas College, Texas A&M-Commerce, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board have collaborated to produce the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Program,...

TPPF Statement on Lieutenant Governor’s Interim Charges

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This report, authored by Vikrant Reddy, TPPF’s Center for Effective Justice Senior Policy Analyst, discusses the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a federal statute prohibiting international bribery. Specifically, it focuses upon the increasing number of investigations, and how this statute...

Electricity News Gets Better–and Worse

Electricity News Gets Better--and Worse

State of the Union: TPPF responds

AUSTIN – Yesterday, the Lieutenant Governor released interim charges for the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, the Senate Committee on Economic Development, and the Senate Committee on Government Organization. The topics of study include: local government debt, ballot-box transparency; and the effectiveness of state economic-development programs. The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the issuance of...