Property and sales tax rates are generally the same for everybody. The 2005 state sales tax rate in Texas was 6.25 percent for the state rate. But existing law also allows up to 2 percent more for ...

John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917-1993), thirty-eighth governor of the state of Texas, was born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, on February 27, 1917, one of eight children of John Bowden and Lela ...

Senate Bill 2 and House Bill 2 – colloquially, the Senate’s ESA/voucher and the House school finance bills, respectively – are on the House Calendar for this Wednesday. While the oddsmakers in the ...

(Voters know) that any document that you have to amend 20 times every other year is broke. It's sort of a Texas tragedy, actually, that we can't seem to come to grips with the fact that we need a new ...

When inmate David Ruiz sued the director of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), William J. Estelle, in 1972 over dangerous and degrading living and working conditions, he set in motion a ...

After the Civil War two amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution that explicitly guaranteed the rights of African Americans as citizens. The 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) prohibited states ...

James Edward (Pa) Ferguson (1871-1944), Texas governor, son of James Edward and Fannie (Fitzpatrick) Ferguson, was born on August 31, 1871, near Salado, Bell County, Texas. When he was four years old, ...

The population of Texas has grown one-hundred fold in the century and a half since statehood and changed dramatically in composition. In 1850, almost 70 percent of the state's 212,592 inhabitants were ...

Dorothy Ann Willis (1933-2006) was born September 1, 1933, in Lakeview, Texas. Richards received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a teaching certificate from the University of Texas. She ...

Just how rational are bureaucracies when they make decisions--and what do we even mean by rational? The ideal view of bureaucracies envisions highly organized and thorough organizations that ...

Planning for the new budget begins in the spring of the year preceding the biennial legislative session, which begins in January of odd-numbered years. Instructions for agency strategic plans--The ...