With local government spending, debt, and taxes all trending in the wrong direction, it’s critical that we make use of every tool available to make sure that our cities, counties, and school districts are being judicious with the money that they have available.
Press Release April 8, 2015Transparency is essential to good governance, and all Texans should welcome easier access to important financial transparency tools, such as the ability to make a public information act request.
Press Release April 8, 2015Texas’ local governments are deep in debt, and the situation is only getting worse thanks to exotic public financing devices like capital appreciation bonds (CABs) that allow local governments to borrow now and shift oversized debt payments onto future generations of taxpayers.
Press Release April 8, 2015Texas school districts are awash in debt. In fiscal year 2014, school district debt totaled more than $112 billion, the most by far of any type of local government in Texas.
Press Release April 8, 2015The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Kathleen Hartnett White, Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and the Director Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment, will join U.S. Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Science, Space & Technology Committee, for “Reigning in the EPA: A Regulation Roundtable” TODAY, April 8, 2015 at 7:00 pm CDT at the Cailloux Theater in Kerrville, TX.
Press Release April 8, 2015The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Center for Local Governance Senior Policy Analyst Jess Fields testified today before the Texas House Committee on Urban Affairs.
Press Release April 7, 2015Texas Public Policy Foundation Director of the Center for Education Freedom Kent Grusendorf issued a statement on the Senate Education Committee passage of Senate Bill 4, relating to school-choice programs for certain students eligible to attend public school.
Press Release April 7, 2015Texas Public Policy Foundation Director of the Center for Education Freedom Kent Grusendorf issued a statement on House Bill 1759, relating to the public school finance system, filed today.
Press Release April 7, 2015Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Center for Health Care Policy John Davidson testified today before the Texas House Public Health Committee on House Bill 1940, which would create licensed Dental Hygiene Practitioners.
Press Release April 7, 2015The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Center for Economic Freedom Policy Analyst Kathleen Hunker is testifying before the Texas House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee TODAY, Tuesday, April 7, at 2:00 p.m. CDT or upon final adjournment in Room E2.026 of the Texas State Capitol.
Press Release April 7, 2015The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s distinguished senior fellow-in-residence and the director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White authored an article in Friday’s The Hill titled “Civilization’s greatest threat: Islamist terror or climate policy?”
Press Release April 7, 2015The provisions of the Corrections Act draw heavily upon the proven, commonsense solutions that we have advocated for here in Texas; those that have helped the state increase public safety, control costs, and reintegrate ex-offenders back into the productive economy.
Press Release April 6, 2015