Current plans rely heavily on interbasin transfers to meet Texas’ growing water demand. But regulatory restrictions may keep those projects from being completed. That needs to change. “
Press Release April 29, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released the Policy Perspective Interbasin Transfers: A Water Solution for Texas. Authored by Josiah Neeley, TPPF’s Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment policy analyst, this report reviews Texas’ interbasin water transfers and the laws inhibiting the practice. “Texas’ prior appropriation system for water operates under the principle of...
Press Release April 29, 2014TPPF hosts Policy Primer event Cutting Edge Corrections: Leveraging Technological and Medical Advances to Reduce Crime
Press Release April 25, 2014AUSTIN – Marc Levin, Director of the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, will testify before the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee on Monday, April 28, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Room E2.010 of the Texas State Capitol. The Committee will meet to study the potential issues involving civil...
Press Release April 24, 2014Richard Fisher’s presentation at Texas at a Turning Point, an event held by TPPF on April 16, 2014. “
Press Release April 22, 2014Debt-laden Arlington ISD Set to Ask Voters to Approve Even More Debt
Press Release April 21, 2014TODAY: TPPF’s Marc Levin to participate in “smart justice” panel for “Texas State of Mind Conference and Launch Event”
Press Release April 16, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host “Texas at a Turning Point: A Free Market Economics Conference and Luncheon,” on April 16, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Central Time at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. This conference will bring together Texas’ brightest and most eminent economists to discuss policy challenges...
Press Release April 14, 2014Gambling Expansion in Texas?
Press Release April 14, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following statement today regarding Texas House Speaker Joe Straus' appointment of members to the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures and Finance: "The new select committee has serious work before it, in both innovative reform and funding. Only by tackling both reform and funding can...
Press Release April 7, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Protecting Texas Taxpayers: the Sales Tax Relief (STaR) Fund. This report, authored by Talmadge Heflin, TPPF's Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy and Dr. Vance Ginn, Center for Fiscal Policy Economist, discusses how the creation of a STaR Fund could help slow the growth of...
Press Release April 7, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Protecting Texas Taxpayers: the Sales Tax Relief (STaR) Fund. This report, authored by Talmadge Heflin, TPPF’s Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy and Dr. Vance Ginn, Center for Fiscal Policy Economist, discusses how the creation of a STaR Fund could help slow the growth of government spending...
Press Release April 7, 2014