In this guest commentary, two city council members make the extraordinarily rare move of publicly urging their counterparts on the San Marcos CISD board of trustees to start televising their meetings.
Before deciding what to do about immigration, Republicans should first decide what not to do. They should not buy in to the Obama/liberal Democrats’ plan to legalize every person who is in the country illegally.
– COMMENTARY by LAURA HUFFMAN During the last legislative session here in Texas, about 6,000 bills were filed. Fewer than 1,400 of them were passed. That’s a lot of legislative traffic with very low odds of success. So as we head into the next session this January, what issues should Texans ask legislators to prioritize? [...]
Hays County Pct. 2 Commissioner MARK JONES takes the Austin City Council to task for scrubbing SH 45 SW from its comprehensive master plan. The proposed road would connect Mopac in Austin with FM 1626 in Hays County and would eventually connect to Interstate 35 near Buda.
Texas Attorney General GREG ABBOTT writes about Buda resident David Glickler’s prosecution of a politically powerful doctor in Winkler County and his cronies for retaliating against two whistleblower nurses.
In this guest commentary, Texas House Speaker JOE STRAUSS says manufacturing is not dead, especially in Texas, but that the state and federal government should take steps that will allow the sector to thrive.
In this commentary, retired Texas State agriculture professor Lon Shell says Austin Community College won’t be able to address job training needs in San Marcos and won’t allow for enough local control over a San Marcos campus.
Pedernales Electric Cooperative Board President Larry Landaker addresses continuing criticisms for the board’s firing of former General Manager Juan Garza earlier this month. Landaker says the reasons aren’t secret, but confidential.
In this commentary, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) notes the approach of Memorial Day by saying the federal government can, and has, improved services for military veterans.
In this letter sent to his supporters, outgoing San Marcos CISD Trustee Peter Baen said he will help to transition John P. Crowley onto the school board. Crowley defeated Baen in Saturday’s election to represent the northern portions of the school district.
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