First post!

First of all, let me express my thanks to Will for his kind invitation for me to post on this blog. Hopefully we will be able to provide you with a steady source of useful information about Texas state government and policy.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin. Our research agenda is organized along five centers:

• Economic Freedom -- tort reform, insurance, energy, property rights
• Education -- public and higher
• Effective Justice -- criminal justice reform, over-criminalization, restorative justice
• Fiscal -- taxes and spending
• Health Care -- health care, welfare reform

Besides the dozens of research reports a year in these areas, we have a bi-weekly podcast called "Texas PolicyCast" that features an 8-10 minute interview on current policy issues. We have a weekly commentary that is sent to hundreds of newspapers across Texas. And we also put out press releases every once in a while. I will attempt to link as much of that content as I can on this site, but obviously, after a while, we'd be thrilled if you would just bookmark our site and drop by a couple of times a week.

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