AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation has authored a policy perspective, Property Rights in Texas: Heading in the Right Direction, discussing Texas’ strengths as a strong property rights state with relatively limited land-use controls. Most Texas cities and counties have far less restrictive land-use controls than are found on the West Coast and the...
Press Release October 19, 2011AUSTIN – A paper published last Friday by the Texas Public Policy Foundation addresses a recent claim by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that 81 percent of new Texas jobs during the last four years had gone to newly arrived immigrants. The paper, “The Texas Model: Who Really Gets Texas Jobs,” was written by...
Press Release October 10, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., as the new Director of the Center for Higher Education. Starting today, he will work full-time from the Foundation’s Austin office. Dr. Lindsay brings more than two decades of experience in higher-education leadership, instruction and reform to the Foundation. His...
Press Release October 5, 2011AUSTIN – Mario Loyola, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies, has authored The Case of Range Resources, discussing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s arbitrary attack on the Texas natural gas company Range Resources. In December 2009, Steven Lipsky noticed a problem with his water well at his new home...
Press Release September 14, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation marked the eighth anniversary of Proposition 12, the constitutional amendment that implemented medical liability reform, with a new policy brief showing that Texas has added nearly 25,000 new physicians during the last eight years. The brief, “The Texas Model: Improving Health Care Through Tort Reform,” was written by...
Press Release September 13, 2011“When someone finds himself trapped into a hole, the first step to getting out is to quit digging. On a day when the nation’s ghastly jobs picture has been captured in stark detail, President Obama’s withdrawal of the EPA’s draconian, costly, and unnecessary new ozone standard is a rare bit of good news. “By the...
Press Release September 2, 2011“Today’s action plan from Chancellor Cigarroa is an important and welcome recognition that Texas students and parents can no longer afford business as usual from our state’s higher education institutions. The measures put forward today should lead to a better academic experience for students, and improved performance of the University of Texas System. “We congratulate...
Press Release August 25, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s President and CEO Brooke Rollins defended Texas’ extraordinary economic progress, exceptional job growth, health care innovation, and groundbreaking education reforms on Morning in America with Bill Bennett yesterday on the Salem Radio Network. “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America opens a daily dialogue with men and women all across...
Press Release August 24, 2011"Today's ruling in Florida v. HHS is a resounding victory for champions of limited government under the Constitution. The constitutional restraints on federal power have been eroding for the better part of a century, largely because the Supreme Court abdicated its role as guardian of those restraints during the New Deal. It is very heartening...
Press Release August 12, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s work in juvenile justice reform was recognized this week in The New York Times editorial titled Texas’s Progress on Juvenile Justice. The achievements lauded by The New York Times were spearheaded by Marc Levin, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice and Vikrant Reddy, Center for Effective...
Press Release July 11, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Legislature deserves praise for sending the Health Care Compact to Gov. Rick Perry’s desk, the Texas Public Policy Foundation said. The Health Care Compact was included in the conference committee report on Senate Bill 7, which won final approval in both houses earlier today. “The Texas Legislature’s approval of our state’s...
Press Release June 27, 2011AUSTIN – “The U.S. has far more energy resources than any other country, yet no other country so limits and blocks access to its own energy supply,” writes Kathleen Hartnett White in the latest issue of National Review. Ms. White, Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy...
Press Release June 7, 2011