AUSTIN – Yesterday, the Marlin, Texas, City Council unanimously passed an ordinance creating the Marlin Community Initiative, a program crafted with the help of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Local Governance and Center for Effective Justice. The Marlin Community Initiative is an innovative effort to save taxpayer money by allowing a mix of...
Press Release September 12, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today endorsed the Citizens for Self Governance call to an Article V Convention of States. The Convention of States would amend the Constitution for the purpose of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. “The process of having a national conversation about the constitutional promises...
Press Release September 12, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host “Securing the Border: A Symposium on Solution” tomorrow, September 4, 2014, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Texas State Capitol Legislative Conference Center located in room E2.002. There is consensus that the modern American immigration system works poorly, and nearly half a century after...
Press Release September 3, 2014AUSTIN -- Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a report by Economist Vance Ginn, Ph.D. and Policy Analyst Michael Barba explaining the relationship between a competitive school market and increases in teacher pay and job satisfaction.
Press Release September 3, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s director of the Center for Higher Education, Dr. Thomas Lindsay, today released the report Combating the “Other” Inflation: Arresting the Cancer of College Grade Inflation.
Press Release August 27, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s director of the Center for Higher Education, Dr. Thomas Lindsay, today released the report Combating the “Other” Inflation: Arresting the Cancer of College Grade Inflation. The report discusses how grade inflation has debased academic standards and explains the need for transcript transparency to restore sound grading standards to...
Press Release August 27, 2014American Medicine's Midlife Crisis
Press Release August 19, 2014Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a report examining the added costs caused by Texas’ ban on home insurance non-renewal.
Press Release August 18, 2014Texas' Local Government Facing Lots More Red Ink in FY 2013
Press Release August 13, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host “When the Feds Go Rogue: the States’ Duty to Respond” this Thursday, August 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the State Capitol Legislative Conference Center, room E2.002. New instances of federal overreach are revealed at an alarming rate: the EPA regulating without restraint, the...
Press Release August 7, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation released a report today by Kathleen Hunker on the lack of protection for property owners in regulatory takings law entitled, Private Property Interrupted: A Blueprint for Protecting Texas Property Owners from Regulatory Takings Abuse. “Local governments essentially have carte blanche authority to halt, alter, and even eliminate, without compensation,...
Press Release July 29, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Putting the Student First – School Finance for Texas. This report, authored by Foundation Senior Fellow James Golsan, discusses the history and future of school finance in the Lone Star State. “School finance is a complex, contentious issue that has been argued in the Texas courts, repeatedly re-worked,...
Press Release July 28, 2014