Honesty Agenda

Fever!

December 3, 2014

Tax cut fever has infected the Texas Capitol and the 84th Legislature is still more than a month away. We’ll enter this legislative session with billions in “extra” revenue and expectations for much m...

Their Little Secret

November 12, 2014

Last Thursday, I got pretty sick. No, I don’t think it was a physical reaction to Tuesday’selections, even though I’m just about the only person I voted for that won. It was food poisoning. I’m o...

Watson Wire: Affordability and Fairness in Property Taxes

June 10, 2014

Everybody hates property taxes. Can I get a witness? Can I get an “Amen”? I thought so. We’re all frustrated. We can’t control our property values but we have to pay the tax bills that are ba...

Affordability and Fairness in Property Taxes

June 10, 2014

Texas can and should create a fairer system of taxation between commercial and residential property taxpayers. But to create truly needed tax relief for homeowners, we must embrace and expand the hom...

Statesman: How Kirk Watson would lower your taxes and make Austin more affordable

June 9, 2014

Austin American-Statesman By: Marty Toohey - American-Statesman Staff Posted: Monday, June 9, 2014Austin state Sen. Kirk Watson will unveil a series of proposals this week aimed at reforming the sta...

A Diversion by Any Other Name … Is Still Wrong

April 23, 2013

Before we get started, let's take a second to remember the victims of last week's events in West and in Boston, and to pray for all of those affected by those terrible events. It was a difficult, sad...