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Governor Pick Perry doesn’t like the way higher education is funded. He wants to micromanage it. He doesn’t care that higher education is poorly funded. (Texas ranks 50th in percentage of high school graduates, 27th in college graduates.) The issue … Continue reading →

Poor Tom Delay! He can’t get off the ballot. Poor Republicans! They can’t get him off the ballot! Why? Because in the early 1980s, both parties ignored their own voters in the primaries and replaced candidates whom the voters had … Continue reading →

Public support for higher education is declining all over the country. In state after state support is going down. Tuition is going up. In 2002, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University barely made the US News … Continue reading →

President Clinton’s end-of-term pardons have come in for a lot of criticism. Executive clemency, as Presidential or Gubernatorial pardons are called, has played its part in Texas history, too. Governor Sam Houston pardoned murderess Mary Monroe because the Texas Supreme … Continue reading →

The nation is deadlocked politically. The Presidential race is too close to call. The new Senate will be divided 50-50. What’s needed is a compromise that lets the new President take office with broad support and provides the divided leadership … Continue reading →

The next President and Vice President of the United States have not yet been elected, nor will they be elected when the votes in Florida and Oregon have been counted, nor will they be elected when the electors meet in … Continue reading →

Yes, I have decided to run for President. You may think it’s too late now that the primaries are nearly over. Not to worry. Certainly Governor George W. Bush will try to keep me off the ballot, but he’s not … Continue reading →

A census seems pretty simple. Just count the people. Then decide how many votes each state gets in Congress and for President. Then divvy up a few hundred million dollars and go on about your business. But often in history, … Continue reading →

The Austin Independent School District has been rated “unacceptable” by the Texas Education Agency—too many dropouts and too many low-performing schools. Among the state’s nine largest school districts, which educate 21 percent of its students, there were 42 low-performing schools. … Continue reading →

The State of Texas has lost about $1,000,000,000 of federal aid in the last decade because the Census Bureau failed to count 483,000 Texans in the 1990 census. That’s $200,000,000 a biennium—enough for a teacher pay raise or whatever is … Continue reading →