Jef Rouner
Jef Rouner is an award-winning freelance journalist, the author of The Rook Circle, and a member of The Black Math Experiment. He lives in Houston where he spends most of his time investigating corruption and strange happenings. Jef has written for Houston Press, Free Press Houston, and Houston Chronicle.
AG Office Not Collecting Fines Paxton Owes
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton owes $11,000 in fines to the Texas Ethics Commission. Unfortunately, the state agency in charge of collecting those fines...
Even Conservative Supreme Court Thinks Fifth Circuit Often Wrong
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the most famously conservative courts in the country. Here are some recent complaints from...
Texas Public Schools Will Get More Money If They Use Biblical Curriculum
Texas public schools could soon get a $60 per student bonus if the use a curriculum pushed by state Republicans that includes overt Biblical...
Miller’s Transphobic Dress Code Shook Ag Department
In 2023, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller instituted a transphobic dress code policy for employees in his department. New emails obtained through a Freedom...
Infant Mortality Spikes In Texas After Abortion Ban
Critics of Texas’s near-total ban on abortion claimed that the law would only create more death, not lessen it. A new study shows that...
Patrick Promises 10 Commandments In Texas Schools
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has promised the Texas Senate would pass a bill mandating the 10 Commandments in Texas classrooms on Thursday following a...
Arizona Shows The Voucher Money Shuffle In Action
The primary complaint against school vouchers is that they result in the funneling of money from public schools to private ones. A deep look...
The Three Big Problems With Vouchers And “Micro Schools”
The New York Times published a duo of articles this week delving deep into the micro school community and how it has thrived as...
Both Texas Senators Fail To Protect IVF
Two bills came before the U.S. Senate this week that were supposed to protect in-vitro fertilization, one of them written by Texas’s own Sen....
Kyle Rittenhouse Named Outreach Director For Texas Gun Rights Despite Being Terrible At Guns
A Texas advocacy group for expanded access to firearms has named Kyle Rittenhouse as their outreach ambassador despite the fact that Rittenhouse is clearly...
