TPPF Policy Orientation panel and keynote speaker videos available online

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released a new Energy Brief, Debunking the Myth: Texas is not Running Out of Electricity-The Generators. The Brief contrasts the mixed messages from generators about the ability of the Texas market to maintain resource adequacy.  “Texas’ competitive electricity market can be profitable for both generators and consumers,”...

New Foundation paper highlights the profitability of the Texas electricity market

AUSTIN – Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, issued this statement on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade report:  “For the 12th year in a row Texas is the nation’s top exporting state. The Lone Star State continues to benefit from a well-diversified economy, limited government, and pro-growth...

TPPF statement on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Program

AUSTIN –  Arlene Wohlgemuth, Director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Health Care Policy, issued this statement today on the news that the White House is delaying the implementation of the ObamaCare employer mandate for mid-sized companies until 2016:             “Today’s questionably legal Executive revision to the Affordable Care Act affirms what the Foundation...

TPPF releases Reforming the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 12th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature panel and keynote speaker videos are available online. During this year’s three day conference speakers included national leaders like Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Ted Cruz, and Attorney General Greg Abbott. To view the Policy Orientation panels and keynote presentations online visit: http://bit.ly/1jgDvCw....

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...