Senate passes tax cut package
Wed, 03/29/2023 - 5:00am
The Texas Senate last week unanimously approved a $16.5 billion package to lower property taxes and inject billions of dollars into public schools.
Columns & Opinions
Bill would require fentanyl education
Wed, 03/22/2023 - 5:00am
The death of a Leander High School graduate from a fentanyl overdose has prompted state Rep. Terry Wilson, R-Georgetown, to file a bill that would require 10 hours of education annually concerning the dangers of the drug to students in sixth grade and up, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
Senator explains unprecedented $16.5 billion property tax relief bills
Wed, 03/22/2023 - 5:00am
Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) explained the Senate’s unprecedented $16.5 billion Property Tax Relief bills in the Senate Committee on Finance March 15th, 2023. “The Senate Property Tax Plan is eye-popping for 5.72 million Texas Homesteads by saving nearly $800 per year. All 31 Texas Senators signed onto SB 3, the SB 3 Homestead Exemption increase to $70,000, and we just tripled the over-65 and disabled Homestead Exemption to $30,000, too!” Said Senator Bettencourt.
TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE
Wed, 03/22/2023 - 5:00am
The late 1800s was the age of the railroad. Trains steamed across the hills, valleys, and plains of a growing United States, steadily bringing distant communities closer together. Thousands of miles of track were laid down by thousands of men to build a rail network that brought people and goods from one end of the country to the other. One of the most important figures in Texas railroad development was business titan Jay Gould.
Texas History Minute
Wed, 03/15/2023 - 5:00am
The career of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna brought him to the height of power in Mexican politics, serving as president on eleven different occasions though he preferred to be leading his armies in the field. His career had also brought him nearly into political oblivion. In spite of the many problems Mexico faced and the disaster of his surrender to Gen. Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and his roles in many coups against elected governments, Mexico still reluctantly turned to him in times of crisis by the late 1830s and into the 1840s.