Fort Worth ISD board president’s possible conflict of interest
When Fort Worth ISD board President Tobi Jackson traveled to an education event put on by the Wallace Foundation at Stanford University in 2015,...
Critics say Texas universities don’t protect free speech
Five Texas schools were found in a recent report to have speech codes that substantially restrict students’ First Amendment rights, an issue that an...
Vehicle title fraud ring in Travis County a ‘really big organized...
State and Travis County officials late Monday continued an investigation after seven people — four of them county tax specialists — were charged for...
Rearming APD could cost taxpayers up to 500K, Austin utility customers...
The next time the Austin Police Department rearms its more than 1,900 sworn officers, taxpayers can expect to pay as much as half a...
Former Richardson mayor slapped with corruption charges
The former mayor of Richardson and her husband are due in court June 20 after their indictment last week on bribery and other corruption-related...
Ethics policies, records access, continue to dog Fort Worth ISD
Fort Worth ISD taxpayers last fall were smacked with a series of conflicting sentiments regarding a proposed ethics policy for the school board. The...
Allegation: Houston Rodeo pushed back on sharing crime records
The Houston Rodeo, the largest in the world, and one that attracts nearly all of the business and political glitterati of Texas, is avoiding...
Texas has 2nd largest number of school spankings in U.S.
While most public school districts in the U.S. have done away with corporal punishment, Texas ranks second to Mississippi in paddlings, according to a...
City manager in Crystal City sentenced to 35 years in prison
A federal judge sentenced James Jonas III, the city manager at the center of a corruption investigation that took down the mayor and all...
