Can We Have a Nonpartisan Discussion About Voting Rights?
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View ArticleA Report On Today's Public School Finance Ruling
Texas Impact General Counsel Joshua Houston was present during the school finance hearing's closing arguments and final ruling. He offers this report of the proceedings.Judge Dietz declared Texas’...
View ArticleYour Vote Doesn’t Matter?
In a highly competitive primary in 2012 for one of our State’s 150 House Districts only 1,131 people bothered to vote. That is less than 0.7% of the population of a district electing who is going to...
View ArticleOnly You Can Prevent Wildfires
Most of downtown Dallas burned as did roughly half of Denton’s town square in a series of mysterious fires that occurred across North Texas in the summer of 1860. The fires were most likely caused by...
View ArticleBeware of Zeal Without Knowledge
Prohibition evokes recollections of gangsters and speakeasies, moonshiners and fundamentalists. We’ve forgotten Prohibition was inseparable from women’s suffrage, child labor, working conditions,...
View ArticleWhat Do Those Election Workers Do?
Last week, I was berated by an angry voter while serving as an election judge. He was concerned about his name printed on a label and the precinct number I was plugging into the electronic voting...
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The Unfinished Work
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 150 years ago today. When I was in law school, I took a fascinating class on the Reconstruction Amendments. On the first day, Professor Driver asked us to consider...
View ArticleThe 2014 Candidate Filings
Monday was the candidate filing deadline for the 2014 elections. In other words, the world of potential candidates is now known.I monitor the announcements and the filings for the Texas Legislature as...
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New Year, New Activities Report
After the black eyed peas, the new year is a time to take inventory on the year that has passed and prepare for the year that is to come. For those of us who are registered lobbyists, that means...
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