A Houston-area couple is suing Entergy, the utility company in charge of Texas energy, for gross negligence following the death of their 11-year-old son during the recent blackouts. Cristian Pineda was found dead after trying to stay warm by huddling up in a single room. When his parents found him lying there unconscious, they tried […]

The number of households and businesses in Texas that are still without power due to the state’s catastrophic power failure has dropped to around 2.5 million as of this writing, but this still means that at least 2.5 million people are having to sleep in frigid temperatures without heat. As a result, a number of […]

A former employee of the Austin Public Library (APL) in Texas was arrested after stealing at least $1.5 million worth of printer toner and reselling it online. The city auditor reported that Randal Whited, a former accounting associate at the library, bought printer toner from October 2007 to July 2019 and resold it to different individuals. Investigators found […]

Cyclist Lance Armstrong’s bike shop in Texas will no longer sell and service bicycles for the Austin Police Department. In a statement published on social media, the store, Mellow Johnny’s, confirmed that it will be walking away from its contract with the city of Austin two years before its scheduled conclusion. “In the context of […]

In a time of widespread civil unrest, the Austin City Council voted to de-fund their police department, crippling their own law enforcement as crime runs amok. As the police department is forced to scale back, their jurisdiction will naturally shrink, limiting their ability to respond to burglaries, sexual assaults and other violent encounters. The Austin […]

Staunch Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that cities that cut their police budgets will have their property taxes frozen. The move comes after Austin recently defunded its police department in a misguided attempt to protest against alleged police brutality. On Tuesday, August 18, Abbott outlined a legislative proposal that will discourage cities from cutting spending on […]

The Austin City Council has passed the city’s budget, and with it a proposal to defund the police by slashing $150 million from the Austin Police Department (APD). This move comes after intense pressure from the city’s chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Austin City Council, while officially a nonpartisan institution, is completely filled with […]

If you are getting the feeling that these ongoing “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations are getting way out of hand, you’re right — they are. And in a New York minute. Over the weekend, violence broke out in several cities around the country ostensibly tied to BLM demonstrations, though it’s also clear that, months after the […]

Three members of the radical leftist group Antifa have been charged with looting a Target store in Austin, Texas on May 31. The district attorney for Travis County, Margaret Moore, has charged the individuals following a joint investigation by the Austin Police Department (APD) and the FBI. Both the damage to Target and the merchandise […]

Leftist-run cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles have been in the news in recent months because of policies that aid and abet homelessness. Essentially, these policies focus on the decriminalization aspect of homelessness: Local police and enforcement agencies are no longer empowered to clear streets and keep public areas free of the […]

The squalid, drug-infested, diseased nature of life on the streets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and other uber-Left-wing cities along the West Coast is coming to the heart of the Lone Star State, and residents there likely aren’t ready for it. A new policy adopted by the Democratic city council in Austin, Texas, will […]

One of the country’s largest producers of biosolids, also known as “biosludge,” has been awarded a massive contract by the city of Austin, Texas, to be its exclusive producer of biosludge “compost” for use in agriculture. Synagro, which a recent press release describes as “the preeminent provider of biosolids and residuals solutions services in North […]

New tax rules are poised to spur a mass exodus from states like New York and California – places that are already struggling to hold on to residents. In the last ten years alone, around 3.5 million people have left these high-tax states in favor of lower-tax states like Florida and Texas. According to a […]

It’s taken ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft less than a decade to become majorly disruptive market forces. But it looks like the market isn’t the only thing getting disrupted. Executives at either company have long maintained that their services help improve traffic in cities where they are available by virtue of the fact that […]

For the second and third time in a month, two hand-delivered bombs detonated in Austin, Texas, killing at least one person and injuring two others at separate locations. According to local media, the first explosion on Monday occurred in the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive in East Austin. That bomb killed a 17-year-old teen […]