Although every school district around the state is getting ready for the legislative budget ax to fall, Austin ISD seems more eager than most to fire teachers. OK, OK, maybe “eager” is too strong a word. But AISD administrators seem to be chomping at the bit to decide how many teachers and other employees to […]
There is a big difference between practicing ideology and governing effectively, a difference being played out daily in the drama over unionbusting initiated by the goofus governor of Wisconsin. Closer to home, the Tea Party advisors to the Texas Legislature also are persisting in putting ideology over political sanity, and even the most conservative lawmakers […]
I can remember when the legendary Robin Hood was considered a hero for trying to give poor folks a break. How quaint that idea sounds in today’s climate of corporate greed and conservative Texas politics. The latest bad idea to emerge from the latter (if the current state of Texas politics can be separated from […]
There is still a very long way to go in the Legislature’s budgetwriting process, but eversosteadily, a sense of sanity (or political preservation) is growing under the Capitol dome. (At least under the legislative portion of the dome, anyway.) The latest example occurred this morning with Rep. John Zerwas, the point man for health and […]
