Snake Oil
Lawmakers to Choose Between Allowing More, or Less, Corruption Among Lawmakers
Thanks to the Sunset process, legislators get to remake the Ethics Commission as they see fit.
When the Legislature reconvenes next year, some of the questions before lawmakers will include the following: whether they’d prefer to report more or less of ...Read More
King Street Patriots Tell a Different Story About Last Week’s Court Loss
After suing to open Texas elections to direct corporate spending, Houston tea party group says it's all about free speech.
Indiana lawyer James Bopp, the legal mastermind behind Citizens United, has made it his quest to inject corporate money into state-level politics too, after his...Read More
Save Texas Schools Encore Rally Draws Fewer Ralliers, More Messages
If last year’s Save Texas Schools rally was a show of force—10,000 activists uniting to fight for education—its follow-up at the Capitol last weekend was,...Read More
San Antonio Dad to Jeb Bush: In Trayvon’s Screams, I Hear My Son
At Trinity University, the former Florida governor said he’s saddened by the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, but that the state is safer for the law he signed in 2005.
At a Thursday night talk in San Antonio, Jeb Bush wanted to talk about Mitt Romney and his brother’s book sales—but an African American father, a Trinity Un...Read More
Back to the Capitol Saturday to ‘Save Texas Schools’
Thousands of teachers, parents and advocates will rally to make school funding a campaign issue.
This time last year, more than 10,000 people rallied outside the Capitol entreating lawmakers to spare the state’s education system from the harsh budget cuts...Read More
$5.4 Billion Spending Cut Already Taking a Toll on Schools
One year on, some effects of the Legislature’s public education cuts are clear
It can be tough to measure what the Legislature’s $5.4 billion school funding cut will really cost Texas schoolkids. Since the new budget took effect in Septe...Read More
Justice Department Won’t Approve Texas’ Voter ID Law
Anticipating the move, Texas already sued over the law—its fate now rests with federal judges.
Four months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder came to Austin to announce a crackdown on heavy-handed voter ID laws across the country—an attack on minor...Read More
SXSWedu: Cracking the Education Market with Big Ideas
If you’re an energetic, strat-talking entrepreneur hoping to get your edgy business plan in front of all the right people here in Austin, then of course South...Read More
Arne Duncan Strokes Techie Egos at SXSWedu
South by Southwest’s second annual education conference closed out this afternoon with a cheerleading session led by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. ...Read More