There were a couple of absurdities playing out in Austin yesterday over the deep budget cuts to public education. One was in the House chamber at the state Capitol. The other was at Austin City Hall not too far away. I kept reading media reports about the House debating legislation to cut $4 billion from […]
Teachers and other employees of Lufkin ISD obviously appreciate the sentiment of a strongly worded resolution the Lufkin school board adopted this week, condemning the school funding disaster being perpetrated in Austin. But I wonder, “Where has this board been the past five months?” This outrage didn’t happen overnight, and it is well down the […]
Gov. Rick Perry, Texas’ chaplaininchief, has invited other governors to join him for a “solemn gathering of prayer and fasting” in Houston in August, according to the news item linked below. Although the event is described as apolitical, Perry’s participation, of course, has politics written all over it. I encourage the governor to pray, however, […]
Bills considered by the Legislature often have titles that are incomprehensible (except to a few lawyers) or misleading, but whoever drafted House Bill 33, a private school voucher bill by Rep. Sid Miller, came up with a doozy. The caption identifies it as a bill “providing for efficient government resource allocation.” Yeah, about as efficient […]
