TPPF statement on Brattle Group Report

  Statement by Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Director of TPPF’s Center for Higher Education:  “After decades of skyrocketing college tuitions and student-loan debt, it is heartening to see something being done about it. South Texas College, Texas A&M-Commerce, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board have collaborated to produce the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Program,...

TPPF Statement on Lieutenant Governor’s Interim Charges

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This report, authored by Vikrant Reddy, TPPF’s Center for Effective Justice Senior Policy Analyst, discusses the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a federal statute prohibiting international bribery. Specifically, it focuses upon the increasing number of investigations, and how this statute...

Electricity News Gets Better–and Worse

Electricity News Gets Better--and Worse

State of the Union: TPPF responds

AUSTIN – Yesterday, the Lieutenant Governor released interim charges for the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, the Senate Committee on Economic Development, and the Senate Committee on Government Organization. The topics of study include: local government debt, ballot-box transparency; and the effectiveness of state economic-development programs. The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the issuance of...

MONDAY: Media conference call to discuss National School Choice Week; impact school choice has on Texas parents and students

Texas’ Wind Lobby Spins an Epic Tale

Texas' Wind Lobby Spins an Epic Tale

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: TPPF experts available to discuss Texas’ competitive electricity market and the proposed “capacity” market

TPPF statement on the UT System launch of the seekUT website

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Vice President for Policy Chuck DeVore authors an article in yesterday’s Investor’s Business Daily titled “Congress Must Curb The ‘Soft Tyranny’ Of Bureaucrats.” DeVore writes: “On January 28, America will hear the president deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress. The president will, no doubt, call for a...

New Foundation paper questions PUC’s rationale and authority

ICYMI: TPPF’s Chuck DeVore in Investor’s Business Daily

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Kathleen Hartnett White, Senior Fellow-in-Residence and the Director for the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment, will testify before the United States Senate Environmental Protection Committee on Thursday, January 16th  at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time on the President’s Climate Action Plan. “The Climate Action Plan that the...

TPPF’s Kathleen Hartnett White to testify before the United States Senate Environmental Protection Committee

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Director of the Center for Local Governance, James Quintero, will speak at an Empower Texans touring panel titled “Life, Liberty & Property,” on January 15th in Dallas, and January 16th in Fort Worth. He will discuss Texas local-government taxes, spending, and debt. “When it comes to achieving prosperity, we know...

TPPF’s James Quintero to speak at Life

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation's 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature begins today with a variety of panels and keynote speakers including Senator Ted Cruz, The Honorable Rick Santorum, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. The Policy Orientation event takes place January 8-10, 2014 at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at...