American transportation and logistics giant Ryder System Inc, commonly known as Ryder, has announced that it will be laying off 801 employees after the company lost work at a factory in Austin, Texas. A total of 801 Ryder employees at the Applied Material site, a semiconductor plant in Austin, will lose their jobs. Applied Materials […]

From May 16 through May 20, the Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is holding a drill in Austin, Tex., that involves the use of low-flying aircraft and a simulated radiological attack. Called “Cobalt Magnet 22,” the exercise is supposedly taking place to prepare local, state and federal agencies for the possibility […]

Americans who cling to the Democratic Party because they still believe it is an old-school liberal institution need to understand something: It isn’t. Today’s Democratic Party has been taken over completely by a radical cabal of Marxists, Socialists and outright Communists, as evidenced by an institution they have long since absorbed, the ‘mainstream media.’ Today’s reporters and […]

Thursday, Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) opposing the recently proposed rule: Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces“. On June 7th, ATF published a new notice of this proposed rulemaking on its website. The rule seems aimed at […]

A new CHAZ-like tent city has sprung up at Austin City Hall in Texas, and city councilwoman Mackenzie Kelly wants it to be removed. According to reports, a group of locals has set up shop outside the government facility in protest of a recent vote in which Austinites decided to reinstate a local ban prohibiting […]

On Sunday, May 23, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he would support legislation that would prevent Texas cities from defunding their police departments. The governor made this decision following a shooting incident in Austin earlier that day. Austin Police Association President Kenneth Casaday tweeted a call regarding a shooting that occurred at 5:35 a.m. on Sunday. Casaday […]

Ever since the Austin City Council voted unanimously back in August to cut the budget of the city’s police department by roughly a third, officers throughout the Texas capital city have been quitting in record numbers. Austin’s new district attorney has also implemented a policy allowing for police officers suspected of engaging in misconduct to […]

SpaceX founder Elon Musk is proposing the creation of a city named “Starbase” in Texas, where the company could build rockets to launch its Starlink satellites and other space projects. “Creating the city of Starbase, Texas,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday, March 2. “From thence to Mars, And hence the Stars.” As part of this, a SpaceX representative made […]

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 […]