We regret to inform you that the Legislature is at it again, attempting to push bills that waste your precious time and taxpayer dollars by extending the state’s arm into your backyard.
We’re dealing with a twin set of dangerous bills built on faulty premises — this time that Fort Worth’s downtown and those of a few other Texas cities are uninhabitable pits of violent despair, desperate for intervention. If passed, House Bill 4078 and Senate Bill 2594 would unilaterally set the priorities for spending by “public improvement districts,” locally managed commerce-focused nonprofits serving downtown neighborhoods for decades.
The bills would mandate that the top two categories for expenditures would be for the “elimination” of crime and what the proposed legislation calls “vagrancy.”…