AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announced today that attorney Kate E. Murphy has joined the Foundation as a Hogg Foundation Mental Health Fellow through the Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellow Grants program. The program provides recent graduates of law, social work, public policy or other graduate programs with intensive training, education and experience...
Press Release July 2, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announced today that attorney Kate E. Murphy has joined the Foundation as a Hogg Foundation Mental Health Fellow through the Hogg Mental Health Policy Fellow Grants program. The program provides recent graduates of law, social work, public policy or other graduate programs with intensive training, education and experience...
Press Release July 2, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Kathleen Hartnett White, Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director for the Armstrong Center for Energy and Environment issued this statement regarding The Aransas Project v. Shaw verdict: “Yesterday's decision represents a major victory both for Texas and for the rule of law. Had the district court's ruling been allowed to stand,...
Press Release July 1, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Texas Education: Original Intent of Texas Constitution. Written by the Honorable Kent Grusendorf, Senior Fellow for Education, the paper examines the history of education policy in Texas. It focuses especially on the original intent of the Texas Constitution’s requirement for the state legislature’s “support and maintenance of...
Press Release June 30, 2014Texas Mayors Call for Climate Change Action at the U.S. Conference of Mayors
Press Release June 24, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Senior Fellows Mario Loyola and Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law (emeritus) at the University of Chicago, co-author the lead article for National...
Press Release June 23, 2014AUSTIN – James Quintero, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Local Governance issued this statement today about the U.S. Conference of Mayors: “Earlier today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors began wrapping up its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, by passing several dubious climate-change resolutions that call for a massive expansion of...
Press Release June 23, 2014AUSTIN – James Quintero, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Local Governance issued this statement today about the U.S. Conference of Mayors: “Earlier today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors began wrapping up its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, by passing several dubious climate-change resolutions that call for a massive expansion of...
Press Release June 23, 2014AUSTIN – Today the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the regional and state employment report for May 2014. The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy Economist Dr. Vance Ginn released this statement on another month of job growth in Texas: “Today’s state employment report provides further evidence that the Texas model of limited government is...
Press Release June 20, 2014New Reason Study Exposes Consequences of Bag Bans
Press Release June 19, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case. This paper, authored by TPPF’s Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White, makes the case that fossil fuels have vastly improved living conditions across the world and released entire populations from abject...
Press Release June 19, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case. This paper, authored by TPPF’s Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment Kathleen Hartnett White, makes the case that fossil fuels have vastly improved living conditions across the world and released entire populations from abject...
Press Release June 18, 2014