This Texas Independence Day proved sweeter than most, as Texans were finally freed from their ties to a controversial contract with Spanish toll operator Cintra, which filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing $1.7 million in debt. Cintra is the owner of SH 130, Texas’ first foreign-owned toll road, which has the highest speed limit in […]

Crystal City, Texas, a small southeastern town not far from the Mexican Border, recently made national headlines after four of its five city council members were arrested on charges of corruption by the FBI. But now, the town, which prides itself on being the “Spinach Capital of the World,” is being spotlighted for another reason. […]

Two gorgeous young women with a passion for free-market innovation and love of freedom have single-handedly managed to destabilize the stranglehold that Austin politicians have over a city which once prided itself in creativity, weirdness and entrepreneurship. Capitalizing on an important transition in Austin’s political scene, Tori Moreland and Rachel Kania struck when the opportunity […]

The Lone Star State has the best state capital to live in, according to Wallet Hub, a social media company known for publishing various types of state and local rankings. The analysts reached their conclusion about America’s worst and best state capitals to live in based on four key dimensions: Affordability, Economic Well-Being, Education and […]

Responding to the devastation caused by contaminated tap water in Flint, Michigan, an Austin-based natural health and food safety publication has partnered with a former NASA contract scientist to conduct nationwide water sampling. Interestingly enough, the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t seem too thrilled about it. Earlier this month, Natural News announced its decision to test […]

Public universities in Texas cannot ban guns from dorm rooms, despite efforts to do so at the University of Texas at Austin. Beginning in August of next year, license holders (you must be 21+ years old to obtain one) may carry a concealed handgun on university campuses. The new campus carry law, S.B. 11, was […]

The feds have decided to send more Syrian refugees to Texas, just two days after it sued the federal government and a refugee resettlement nonprofit, alleging that both were violating the Refugee Act of 1980. So far, 31 states have expressed opposition to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their regions, following the Nov. 13 […]

A city councilman tried to protect Austinites from being forced to fund the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Austin, but was met with immense opposition before being called “xenophobic.” Austin City Council Member Don Zimmerman proposed that the city block spending on providing assistance to Syrian refugees, but the measure was struck down by the Public Safety […]

Texas officials no longer have to issue birth certificates to children of illegal immigrants born on U.S., also known as “anchor babies,” according to a ruling made by a judge late last month. The judge’s decision was in response to a lawsuit filed in June against the Department of State Health Services’ Vital Statistics Unit on […]