Jan 30, 2019

The way we fund public schools in Texas has been declared constitutional yet “Byzantine” by the Texas Supreme Court. Nobody likes it, and only a few people understand it. Luckily one of those few people, Professor Jay Aiyer, is with us this week to guide us through the clear as mud system of public school finance in...

Jan 23, 2019

Do YOU “have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits”? This week we use the inspiration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to talk to social worker and community leader Melanie...

Jan 16, 2019

We Americans are fundamentally conservative, right? That’s what we’ve been told for as long as anyone can remember. You can’t express or advocate for honest progressive values, you must pander to the mythical “right of center” middle. But this idea has failed us and lead to the current disaster in Washington....

Jan 9, 2019

In a representative democracy before you can have an election, you need to draw districts, and before you draw districts, you need to know WHERE and HOW MANY people there are in your country. This is why the US Constitution requires a Census every ten years, to ensure an accurate count of the people, a first building...