The Texas Monthly's article "Governor Greg Abbott Calls for Significant Reforms on Complex Issues Like Property Taxes, School Safety", describes a gentle but some what hard hitting state of the state speech given by Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott describes school finance, teacher pay raises, school safety, mental health, property tax reform, and disaster response as critical agenda items for Texas in the coming months. Abbott takes such a gentle approach to such important items because of Texas' growing and diversifying landscape. Texas is ranked the highest job creating states. With this new group, Abbott must tread lightly as to not scare the new citizens but he must also set out to make a change for the old citizens. Abbott only momentarily mentioned the border control despite Trump's depute in El Paso. Some people are apprehensive of Abbott speech and promises because of the complexity of some of the issues he set out to fix.
This article is worth reading because Abbott's proposed plans affect all Texans. Some of his reforms are would be influential and helpful to younger generations, like school safety and mental health.
