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Showing posts with label bonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bonds. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Senate bill would let Houston voters weigh in on fix to pension crisis

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The question is, should they? - Click here for the article . If the Texas Senate gets its way, Houston city officials could have to get vo...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

From CityLab: The Stadiums That Ate Texas Why are these Dallas suburbs funding the most expensive high school football stadiums ever built?

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Good question. For 2306 - mostly. - Click here for the article . In Texas, the old hands say there are only two seasons: spring football a...
Friday, October 7, 2016

From the Cancer Letter: Slamming the Door - How Al Gilman Taught Texas a Lesson in Science

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I'm editing the 2306 slides for Article 3 of the Texas Constitution and ran across this article related to the Cancer Prevention Resear...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

From Investor's Business Daily: In Fast-Growing Texas, Local Debt Has Soared -- Now, Who'll Pick Up The Tab?

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Yes Texas is debt ridden besides its claims to have a balanced budget. We just tend to look in the wrong places for it. - Click here for t...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

From the Houston Chronicle: Municipal Utility Districts in Texas have sweeping power to sell bonds, levy taxes

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MUDs are among the smallest of the special districts, and are primarily a device used by developers to fund infrastructure, like "wate...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

From the Houston Chronicle: Houston senator’s work raises questions of conflict of interests

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In 2306 we discussed a central problem in amateur legislatures. where the general session s very short and legislators paid very little, the...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

From the Houston Chronicle: City bond rating downgrade reflects oil bust, pension problems

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What is impacting the state, is also impacting cities. - Click here for the article . The sluggish oil market and Houston's underfu...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Bonds, Bonds and more Bonds!

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Texas Watchdog has a couple items on the assortment of bonds that will be on the ballot in the upcoming election. The first takes a critical...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

From the Fiscal Times: 5 Things You Must Know About Our National Debt

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This is as good a place as any to get a handle on the national debt, the issues associated and the conflicts over what to do about it and w...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

More on the rise in local debt

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This builds off a post below regarding the rising level of local debt in the state. The Texas Comptrollers office has released a report - ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Local debt increases in Texas

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Here's a story from Quorum Report about the rising debt in local governments (local jurisdictions they're called in the story) in Te...