{"id":83020,"date":"2025-12-10T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83020\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:18:10","slug":"paxton-launches-investigation-into-nearly-1000-cities-over-tax-hikes-news-radio-1200-woai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83020\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton Launches Investigation Into Nearly 1,000 Cities Over Tax Hikes | News Radio 1200 WOAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton\u2019s office announced today that he has launched an investigation into nearly 1,000 cities across the state for potential violations of Texas\u2019 new municipal transparency laws.<\/p>\n<p>The law, SB 1851, requires any municipality raising property taxes to strictly comply with state financial audit and transparency requirements. Paxton has already moved to block the cities of La Marque, Odessa, Tom Bean, and Whitesboro from raising taxes due to noncompliance.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release announcing the sweeping investigation, Paxton stated: \u201cOur cities and municipalities must prioritize transparency and minimizing the tax burden on every citizen across the state. While many cities have already complied with these requirements, I\u2019m launching this review to ensure that the law is universally followed, taxpayers are respected, and local government is accountable to all Texans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all of Texas\u2019 major cities are included in the probe, among them Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, Waco, Dallas, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton\u2019s office announced today that he has launched an investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6920,6919,6918,6921,223,82,84,83,154,1594,272,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-83020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-charity-mccurdy","9":"tag-charlie-parker","10":"tag-chris-duel","11":"tag-mr-t","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","15":"tag-san-antonio-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spurs","18":"tag-traffic","19":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}