MEDIA AVAILABILITY: TPPF’s Jess Fields available to discuss public safety’s pensions and healthcare benefits program in San Antonio

Austin, TX – Vikrant Reddy, Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime, will testify at the United States Sentencing Commission's public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building...

THURSDAY: Vikrant Reddy to testify before U.S. Sentencing Commission

Austin, TX — Vikrant Reddy, Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime, will testify at the United States Sentencing Commission’s public hearing on proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. ET at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building...

Overwhelming Majority Support Abolishing Franchise Tax

Overwhelming Majority Support Abolishing Franchise Tax

TPPF releases new report on civil asset forfeiture

TPPF releases new report on civil asset forfeiture

TOMORROW: TPPF to release new report on civil asset forfeiture

AUSTIN –  The Texas Public Policy Foundation will release the report “Taking Contraband Without Taking Away Our Liberties: Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform in Texas” on March 6, 2014. Authored by Derek Cohen, policy analyst with the Center for Effective Justice, the study details how state and federal forfeiture procedures are being excessively used in many instances,...

TOMORROW: Dr. Thomas Lindsay at SXSWedu

AUSTIN –  Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director of Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education, will serve as a panelist at “Cheaper. Faster. Better? The 10k Degree,” hosted by the SXSWedu Conference and Festival on Tuesday, March 4 at 12:00 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center in Room 15. WHO:             Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director, Center for Higher...

TPPF statement on the release of ERCOT’s Report on Capacity

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Economic Freedom reacted to this morning’s forecast for reserve margins in the Texas electricity market from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT): "ERCOT’s forecast of increased reserves confirms that there is no need to re-regulate the Texas electricity market or impose a $3.2 billion electricity...

TPPF statement on ObamaCare enrollment numbers

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation's Senior Health Care Policy Analyst John Davidson authors The IRS Persists in today's National Review Online.  From the piece: "The desire of the Obama administration to censor the political speech of conservative nonprofits has found a sympathetic audience in Texas, of all places, where the editors of the San Antonio Express-News last week made...

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...