TexBytes

Texas was one of the leaders in imposing the renewable portfolio standard requiring power generators to use a specific amount of wind energy. And thanks to new legislation, the state may be one of the first to repeal that mandate.

There is no sacred principle of “local control” that supersedes the structure of legal authority.

Of all constituencies, the Tea Party should instinctively understand what’s wrong with the Marketplace Fairness Act

Medicaid expansion comes with “free” money that always seems to cost a lot.

The margin tax was supposed to solve the state’s tax problems; it hasn’t.

What does the free market say when a business plan just isn't cutting it? Try a different plan, that's what.

Predictably, Judge Steven Yelonosky rejected a plan for Corpus Christi's Las Brisas Energy Center to provide 1 million South Texas customers with energy generated by burning petroleum coke.

Californians flee in ever-larger numbers to low-tax states like Texas.