Taxes
Texas Taxes - COVID-19 Edition
Your taxes are going up and the Texas Legislature still might cut teacher funding or healthcare spending in a pandemic. What's going on?!?
Voting
Vote At Home
Even in normal times, voting is like a timed standardized test. These are important decisions and it's time we modernize our system so voters can take the time they need to get it right.
Texas Legislature
The First Branch
As COVID drags on, the 9th largest economy in the world is being run by one man. Is that really representative democracy?
Public Education
The roles of our public school system
Last week, the Houston Chronicle told the story of parents trying to keep their kids on track academically during COVID-19 [https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Why-not-just-cancel-school-and-make-up-class-time-15187177.php] . A
Budgets
Tough decisions coming to state and local budgets
As Texas begins week three of “Stay Home, Stay Safe”, nearly half a million Texans [https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/unemployment-get-help-from-the-texas-workforce-commission/269-122ccd82-e5ba-41cf-b356-6cc9809d3d58] have filed for unemployment. And according
COVID-19
America has enough for you
I’m writing a second post this week [https://texasplenty.com/running-government-like-a-business/] because, as we go through this COVID-19 crisis, I need to get this message out there: America has
Waste
Running government like a business
When I ran for office, one of the ideas that I would hear all the time was that we should be running government like a business. Now I'd seen a
