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08/08/2024

Don't allow impatience or lack of knowledge about school bus safety cost a life!

School Bus Safety Guide! Let’s all work together to make our communities safe!

07/30/2024

07/27/2024

Texans Deserve Better than to be ripped off by Utility Companies and Insurance companies, aided by politicians who made them vulnerable to price gouging.

We’re already dealing with high prices, high mortgage rates, and high property taxes. Now the state faces an insurance crisis.

07/26/2024

You deserve to know; On June 26, 2024, in Snyder v. United States, a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Kavanaugh, the United States Supreme Court significantly curtailed the federal statute criminalizing bribes and other “corrupt” payments to state and local officials. Snyder, a mayor of a small town in Indiana, awarded a USD 1.3 million contract to a local truck dealership to purchase three garbage trucks and subsequently received a USD 13,000 payment from that dealership which the government said was a corrupt and unlawful reward for having the contract steered to the company in the first place.

Snyder was convicted under Title 18 section 666, which makes it a crime for a state or local official to “‘corruptly solicit, accept, or agree to accept anything of value from any person intending to be influenced or rewarded.” The conviction was upheld by the 7th Circuit. The Supreme Court reversed the conviction, holding that section 666 applied solely to “bribes that are promised or given before an official act,” not giving what the Court characterized instead as an after-the-fact “gratuity” given at a later time. The dissent, written by Justice Jackson, criticized the majority’s narrow reading of section 666 as an “absurd and atextual reading of the statute…only today’s Court could love,” and inconsistent with the facts at trial laying out what appeared to be a “rigged” bidding process.

07/15/2024

https://www.texasgateway.org/index.php/resource/114-great-deregulation-experiment

Sections Learning Objectives Doubts about Regulation of Prices and Quantities The Effects of Deregulation Learning Objectives Learning ObjectivesBy the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Evaluate the effectiveness of price regulation and antitrust policy Explain regulatory ca...

07/15/2024

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/texas-politicians-power-grid-failures-blackout-16185399.php

After each power failure or near-failure over the past decade, Texas lawmakers have left...

07/13/2024

All those hard working linemen and tree cutters are doing jobs more dangerous than you can fathom. They want to go home to their families. The tree that is moving, an oak, weighs 45 pounds per cubic foot. Widow maker trees and thinking around instant electrocution, falls from height, is what will matter in the long run, over short term comfort. Be cautious, stay clear and be supportive! https://weather.com/news/news/2021-05-11-falling-trees-during-storms

07/05/2024

As you celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, family and friends, learning what the founders were unwilling to suffer under from their "rulers" can remind you of what kind of resolve you are honoring.

The document was designed to prove to the world (especially France) that the colonists were right to defy King George III's rule.

04/29/2024

https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/fids/201205702-1.pdf

04/11/2024

Thankful for this in 2024, and for more than a decade now, but always with a grain of salt from Hemingway!

01/15/2024

⚠️NEW from Texas Department of Transportation | The DriveTexas Map shows dangerous ICY ROAD CONDITIONS continue to move into Harris County from the North and the West.
⚠️USE EXTREME CAUTION⚠️
Monitor current road conditions here:
TXDot: https://bit.ly/DriveTexasRoads
TranStar: https://bit.ly/TranStarMap