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Why We Support Concealed Carry on Campus

Blog / May 14, 2009

Summed up in the Texas Insider:

In January of 2008, at the University of Texas Pan American (UTPA) in Edinburg, a 22-year-old UTPA student was walking across campus to his vehicle when he was suddenly robbed and stabbed by an assailant.  In March of 2009, just across the street from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) a tow truck driver was shot and killed. 

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Transparency in Higher Ed

Blog / May 13, 2009

Check out this new video interview with Represenative Lois Kolkhorst, brought to you by www.TexasBudgetSource.com 

 

http://tr.im/lf27 

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And people wonder why tuition has increased so much?

Blog / May 12, 2009

KTRK Houston has recently aired a series of investigative reports on the out of control spending at the University of Houston. There is no doubt in my mind that this type of fraud is going on elsewhere. Check out the videos, become informed, and demand answers from your state legislators. Let’s enact policies that drive down tuition and improve educational quality, not write universities more blank checks.

 

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Action Alert! — Smoking Ban Voted Out of Committee

Blog / May 8, 2009

Bad news! The House Committee on State Affairs has passed out House Bill 5, the ban on smoking in all workplaces. Considering that Calendars Committee Chairman Brian McCall is a joint author of the bill, it is virtually guaranteed to be placed on the House Calendar for a vote this week.

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Universities forget that their customers are students, NOT faculty

Blog / May 7, 2009

 Check out the new paper released by the Texas Public Policy Foundation on principles that can reform Texas’ higher education institutions.

 

http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2009-05-PP16-HE2-ey.pdf 

 

YCT thinks these ideas are great!

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