The City of Lubbock needs to improve the streets and sidewalks along a major thoroughfare. This will require a large expenditure of monies that the city does not have. What is the best way the city can borrow the money for the project?

__________ is the most common form of crime in Texas.

Which form of local government must be approved by voters in municipalities of 5,000 or more people?

Which of the following governing entities provides a specific service to a limited geographic area in Texas?

Most criminal cases are disposed by way of a [BLANK-1] because there are not enough trial courts or prison beds in the state to handle all of the cases.

The governor’s budget __________.

Who decides the amount of time that someone convicted of a crime will serve?

Redistricting, scandals, and midterm elections may help stop the high rates of [BLANK-1] in Congress.

Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC both ______.

The strongest predictor of an individual’s vote choice is ______.