Daily Archives: April 4, 2011

House passes its budget

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Charles Kuffner

The Trib has a good writeup of how it went down on Sunday. Mot of the heavy lifting was done before then, in the bills that closed the books on the previous biennium and allocated Rainy Day funds for them … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget ballyhoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on House passes its budget

How does school finance work, anyway?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Charles Kuffner

The Trib has a useful guide to this incredibly complex topic. Here’s our layman’s guide to figuring out the current system, compiled with the help of experts at the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, the Equity Center and the Texas … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget ballyhoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Can we take a step forward without also taking one back?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Charles Kuffner

From last week’s Texas Tribune on the subject of plastic bag recycling. On Tuesday the Senate’s Committee on Natural Resources heard testimony on a bill sponsored by the committee’s chairman, state Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, that would require large … Continue reading →

Posted in That's our Lege | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

It’s not just about cutting public education funding

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Charles Kuffner

Abby Rapoport explains one of the potential long term consequences of the violence that’s being done to public education funding this session. For over 60 years, Texas has treated education differently than the rest of the budget. In funding most … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget ballyhoo | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on It’s not just about cutting public education funding

The quest for a dollar coin that people will use continues

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Charles Kuffner

Now with extra special deficit reduction capabilities! Americans are a tight-fisted people when it comes to their dollars. So in order to replace the paper currency with dollar coins — a long-advocated move that could save the government an estimated … Continue reading →

Posted in National news | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments