Legislative Session Update
The Texas Legislature gaveled into session this week, marking the beginning of the 87th Texas Legislative Session. In response to the ongoing pandemic, the House and Senate…
In this inaugural edition of our Future of Texas – Unscripted podcast, we discuss the opening week of the 87th Texas Legislative session. Amid the backdrop of COVID-19 and state budget concerns,…
While Texas has a great reputation as an overall business friendly state, higher property taxes create a challenge to attracting large industrial facilities. In fact, major industrial facilities in…
Colleges and universities draw funds from various sources to sustain their operations, but it’s the state funding that often receives the most attention due to the complexities of the funding formula…
For decades, the Texas Legislature attempted to solve the complex issues in Texas public school finance, and for decades the body failed in that attempt. The systems that the Legislature and Supreme…
Now that the 2020 elections are behind us, the makeup of the Texas Legislature is coming into focus.
Despite some predictions of a possible Democrat majority in the Texas House, Republicans…
