January 09, 2022
How Texas Government Failed to Pay Soldiers On Time
by Robert Montoya
Texas soldiers are unnecessarily entangled in a train wreck of layered bureaucracies, political issues, staff turnover, and IT headaches. Issues in paying troops, identified last year, persist.
As we previously reported, Operation Lone Star (OLS) is part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s pivot to border security following the Biden–Harris Administration’s abdication of strong border security measures. Essentially, OLS surged members of the Texas National Guard (TNG) and the Texas Dept. of Public Safety to the state’s southern border.
Unfortunately, as Texas Scorecard reported in December, an unknown number of TNG troops involved in OLS were being paid late.
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A local judge has made it easier for a convicted child sexual predator to be released back onto the streets.
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