by Bill Peacock | Apr 8, 2025 | Texe Lege
Taking a look at the budget and Texas’ $80 billion budget surplus Executive Summary Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE) biennium projects a budget surplus of $23.76 billion in state funds for the current 2024-25 fiscal biennium. But...
by Bill Peacock | Apr 4, 2025 | 89th TXLege, Texe Lege
This headline in last week’s Houston Chronicle captured all that is wrong with the Texas electricity market: Since 2013, when the Operating Reserve Demand Curve was approved, the Texas Legislature has sought to deal with the grid reliability problems caused by...
by Bill Peacock | Apr 1, 2025 | Texe Lege
Like most Texans, I am fed up with the rapidly growing Texas budget filled with waste, corporate cronyism, and funding for leftwing causes like DEI. Unlike most Texans, I am able to go to the Texas Capitol and testify against the bloated Texas budget. I would have...
by Bill Peacock | Mar 24, 2025 | Research
Texans to Receive Only $6 Billion in Property Tax Relief New Spending Reduces Potential Tax Cuts Now and in the Future When the Texas Senate meets this week to debate and adopt the 2026-27 budget for the state of Texas, it is likely to put Texas on track to approve...
by Bill Peacock | Mar 3, 2025 | 89th TXLege, Texe Lege
Since 2011, market participants, regulators, and watchers have understood that intermittent energy sources—wind and solar—are causing three major problems in the ERCOT electric market. First, their intermittency has increasingly pushed the grid towards...
