by TFR Staff | Oct 8, 2026 | Local
Crosby ISD voters will decide on November 3 whether to authorize $208.28 million1 in new school bonds. The sample ballot lists the measures as Proposition A and Proposition B, and comes at a time when the district only has two cents of borrowing power left under the...
by TFR Staff | Oct 5, 2026 | Commentary
We have already reported1 on James Talarico’s votes against adding an income-tax ban and a death-tax ban to the Texas Constitution. Those votes, however, are not the whole story. While campaigning for the U.S. Senate as a champion of “affordability,” the Austin...
by TFR Staff | Oct 2, 2026 | Local
Commissioners adopted a county tax rate 22.02 percent above the no-new-revenue rate. The median homestead bill would rise from $558.97 last year to $666.52 if voters approve the higher rate on November 3. Dallas County voters will decide on November 3 whether to...
by TFR Staff | Sep 29, 2026 | Commentary
State Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R-Arlington, HD 94) earned a 97% on TFR’s 2025 Fiscal Responsibility Index,1 one of the strongest scores in the Texas House. His career rating is an A+, with A+ scores in 2015, 2017, and 2023 and A- ratings in 2019 and 2021. Those grades...
by TFR Staff | Sep 25, 2026 | Commentary
The Texas Association of School Boards is not looking for a new direction. It is looking for a better lobbyist. On September 22, TASB’s board named former State Rep. Gary VanDeaver of New Boston, Texas, as its next executive director, effective October 1.1 VanDeaver...
