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Today, August 17th, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office sent letters1 to more than 110 additional cities prohibiting them from raising ad valorem property taxes above the no-new-revenue (NNR) tax rate. The NNR rate is the property tax rate a local taxing entity...
Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare1 gave preliminary approval Thursday, August 13th, to a Fiscal Year 2027 budget that sets the county rate at $0.1860 per $100 of valuation and the JPS Hospital District rate at $0.1590. Both sit below the no-new-revenue (NNR) rate, the...
Fort Worth officials face a significant budget shortfall for fiscal year 2027 after certified property tax rolls came in lower than projected. The projected general fund gap rose from an earlier estimate of roughly $49 million to approximately $77–78 million1 once the...
On August 7th, the Bastrop City Council conducted official workshops1 not in Bastrop (where one might reasonably expect), but more than one hundred miles away in Fredericksburg. The posted agenda2 lists the location as the John Wm. Klein Meeting Room at 115 N....
Today, July 31, 2026, marks the formal end of Karen Molinar’s tenure with Fort Worth Independent School District.1 Her resignation takes effect at 11:59 p.m., closing the chapter that began with her appointment in March 2025 and effectively ended when the Texas...
Over the last decade, Austin's city budget has grown 80 percent while the population grew just 10 percent. The city is now spending $6.3 billion annually,1 and until this November, taxpayers have had no formal mechanism to verify whether any of it is being spent...