AUSTIN, Texas — State lawmakers pumped the breaks on a priority property tax reform bill Thursday. It’s meant to slow down the rate in which your property taxes rise, but the Texas House postponed its expected debate after hours of delay. It appears to be out of courtesy to the Senate. That chamber was the…

Of all the places Gov. Greg Abbott might go for policy ideas, it’s hard to imagine a less likely place than California.  But the uber-expensive, highly-taxed, bluest-of-blue states may actually hold the answer to an issue Abbott called an “emergency” during his State of the State address.

Giving every property owner in Texas a significant tax cut is expensive, but there are less ambitious plans under consideration along with the big ones.

What one hand gives, another hand might take away. At least that seems to be part of the necessarily painful conversation in Austin as lawmakers work through the challenges of property tax relief.

The head of a Texas House committee overseeing marquee GOP legislation to constrain property tax increases said Wednesday that he was open to shifting the bill in whatever direction gets it “right.” Hoping to “make the bill better in either direction,” state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and author…