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TCEQ grants permit to take land for private developer despite judge's ruling
The Graham family can never seem to cut a break from big government. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state agency that grants wastewater permits, approved a permit for the...
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Michael Morris: The man behind the toll network California-izing Texas
Many North Texans struggle to get around the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex without having to pay tolls and now they’re asking, just who’s responsible for this punitive new tax? The answer is Michael...
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Alamo city transportation board approves 'road diet' for Hwy 281
Today, the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (AAMPO) unanimously voted to approve a resolution to do the US 281 project (from Loop 1604 to the Bexar County line) in San Antonio without...
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Texas voters encouraged to support Prop 7 to secure funding for non-toll roads
It’s been a long road to finding the funding necessary to shore-up the Texas State Highway Fund, but with passage of Proposition 7 on the ballot November 3, Texans will finally see a significant boost...
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Smith record causing opponent to raise Cain
It’s shaping up to be a tough re-election season for incumbents. One of them may be Baytown’s ethically challenged Wayne Smith. His voting record on transportation reflects a disconnect with many...
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Transportation chair signals end may be near for toll managed lanes
The death-knell to toll managed lanes may be imminent in Texas. House Transportation Committee Chair Joe Pickett signaled he’s on a war path to end toll managed lanes at a hearing of the Select...
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Angry residents give developer earful about sewage dump, land grab
Last night, in a little hill country town in Bulverde, Texas, over 130 angry residents vented at a hearing over the 4S Ranch wastewater permit. The hearing conducted by the Texas version of the EPA,...
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Congress passes highway bill, continues diverting funds from roads
Thursday marked the first time since 2005 that the U.S. Congress passed a long-term federal highway bill. The FAST Act, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation, is a 5-year re-authorization of the...
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Public outrage rises as cost of Austin toll road triples
Toll roads in Texas face growing opposition and a shocking revelation by the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) just threw gasoline on the fire. The CTRMA tripled its initial cost...
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Funds yanked: Congress puts the brakes on civil asset forfeiture
Many conservatives are upset with the omnibus spending bill congress passed at the end of the year, but one provision they should praise is congress rescinding funding for the Justice Department’s...
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Congress quietly moves NAFTA superhighway corridors forward in FAST Act
Tucked into the 1,300-page federal highway bill, ‘Fixing America’s Surface Transportation’ Act, or FAST Act, that passed at the end of 2015, Congress quietly advanced several corridors of the NAFTA...
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Straus, Wolff attempt to rewrite history on toll roads at election time
It’s always interesting to watch politicians try to re-write history when election time rolls around. A case in point is State Representative Joe Straus, Speaker of the Texas House, and Bexar County...
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Texas’ first public-private toll road goes bankrupt
It's appropriate that on Texas Independence Day, March 2, Texans got to formally declare independence from its bondage to a tremendously unpopular, anti-liberty public private partnership (P3)...
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Texas Attorney General intervenes in Red River land dispute
It’s a nightmare most ranchers and property owners hope they never experience. But it’s happening to landowners along a 116-mile stretch of the Red River at the Texas border where the federal Bureau...
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Texas lawmakers ponder eliminating toll roads
In a complete about face from the Rick Perry years of toll roads and public private partnerships, a marked shift away from tolling is taking place in Texas and was on display this week at the Texas...
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Three billion reasons to shut down toll authorities
It’s been a rough week for Texas’ Regional Mobility Authorities (RMAs). They’ve come under scrutiny in recent years as duplicative, wasteful, and even corrupt governmental entities that exercise a lot...
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Texas agency approves dump for foreign, toxic waste in Laredo
In a move that threatens the health, safety, and sovereignty of South Texans, the state’s environmental policemen, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), granted preliminary approval...
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Austin to decide whether or not to give Uber the boot
It’s a surprising ballot proposition in a state that boasts it’s the bastion of freedom. Austin voters will head to the polls this Saturday, May 7, to decide whether or not ridesharing companies like...
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Despite defeat, Miller executes more damage to property rights
After an onslaught of threats that remain unresolved, residents of the Texas Hill Country just got a little retribution. From issues with land development and water to toll roads and property rights,...
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Expansion of anti-motorist laws criminalize you for daily living
In America, we’re way past the tipping point of being able to go about your daily life without breaking some little known, arcane law passed in the dark of night. Libertarian think tanks could bury us...
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