Category Archives: Texas

MD Anderson Announces Layoffs

Well, this is a bad economic indicator for the Houston area: Financially ailing MD Anderson Cancer Center will announce today it will cut its workforce by 5 percent through layoffs and retirements. Dan Fontaine, Anderson’s chief financial officer, confirmed Thursday … Continue reading →

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Interview with TPPF’s James Quintero on the Texas Municipal Pension Debt Crisis

James Quintero, the Director of the Center for Local Governance at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, was kind enough to provide some detailed answers to questions I sent him about the municipal pension crisis in Dallas and other large Texas … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 23, 2016

I hope everyone has plans for the Christmas weekend, even if they’re only “eat as much food and watch as much football as humanly possible.” Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm: Suspect in Berlin jihad truck attack shot dead. I was going … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 16, 2016

Next week come two joyous events: Christmas, and Donald Trump being confirmed President by the electoral college. The first is a time of family celebration, and the second means liberals can finally shut the hell up about their asinine cockamamie … Continue reading →

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Trump To Tap Rick Perry For Secretary of Energy?

So read the tea leaves: Donald Trump has selected Rick Perry to be energy secretary, according to two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process. He had been summoned to Trump Tower for a meeting Monday to discuss … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 9, 2016

The Dallas police and fireman pension fund has halted withdrawals of money to stop a pension run in order to keep the system (temporarily) solvent. Texas municipal pension debt is a big story with a lot of different ramifications and … Continue reading →

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Donna ISD Update: December 2016 Edition

One update swept aside in late October by the flood of Clinton Corruption news was the latest from Rio Grande Valley’s Donna ISD. You may or may not remember from back in July when I reported that former Donna ISD … Continue reading →

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Texas SEIU Declares Bankruptcy To Avoid Judgment

Remember when a Houston jury smacked Texas SEIU with a $5.3 million judgment for filing false claims in their unionization campaign against Professional Janitorial Service? Well this weekend Texas SEIU declared bankruptcy: The Service Employees International Union in Texas filed … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 2, 2016

Welcome to the last month of the year! (Insert standard “where has the time gone” lament here.) Enjoy the traditional Friday LinkSwarm: Kevin D. Williamson brings the wood: The Democratic party is an odd apparatus in which most of the … Continue reading →

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2016 Election Roundup Part 2: Reactions and Analysis

I wanted to do a comprehensive roundup of analysis of last week’s election, so this post just grew and grew to its current Brobdingnagian size. So tuck in! There’s a lot to chew over. Let me first note that all … Continue reading →

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