- Davis still running, but scenery isn’t changing
- Wendy Davis campaigns for governor with a self-enriching book tour, more – the Kinky-campaign for self-promotion
- Davis touts education, abortion filibusters at campus tour kick-off
- Wendy Davis makes campaign stop in El Paso, promises to fight for average Texans
- Citing Format Issues, Abbott Changes Gears on Debate
- Year of the Woman Governor hits a snag
- Texas governor’s race: Sure thing? Or stunning upset?
- Analysis: To Debate or Not to Debate?
- Davis to weigh new Dallas debate after Abbott withdrawal
- Abbott, Davis fight over redistricting fees headed back to court
- New Abbott TV/Radio ad focuses on recovery after paralyzing accident VIDEO
- Abbott to Call for Credit for Massive Online Courses
- Abbott’s Houston raid didn’t end with arrests, but shut down voter drive
- Van de Putte blasts Patrick ‘revisionist history’ on education votes – not funding certain programs is quite different from restoring, in general, the public school funding.
- Analysis: School Finance Ruling Provides Candidates a Talking Point
- Texas Gubernatorial Race Two Months from Vote VIDEO
- Analysis: A Lot of Texas Races, But Not as Much Drama
- GOP poll shows Paxton with big lead in AG race
- New Hegar for Comptroller web video: Hard Work VIDEO
- In Washington, George P. Bush remembers V-J Day
- George P. Bush takes a more moderate tone on environmental issues – yes, because he is a moderate Republican.
- SD10: Battle for Senate District 10 escalates
- SD28: Delwin Jones in Lubbock hospital, reported as critical Monday, more
- SD28: Will Arrington flip-flop on the Monorail, too?
- HD50: Statesman endorses Democrat Celia Israel for seat
- SBOE 11: DMN endorses Pat Hardy
- SBOE 12: DMN endorses Tincy Miller
- TX36: Likely Stockman Successor Has Deep Texas Roots
- DMN Editorial: We recommend a yes vote on state’s Proposition 1 – sure, spend more by compromising the Rainy Day Fund, perfect liberal solution.
- Monitor Editorial: Texas voters should support Proposition 1 in fall
- Who Decides Perry’s Fate If Convicted?
- Rick Perry says disparaging tweet unauthorized
- Indictment mischaracterized in deleted tweet from Perry account
- Abilene experts say Gov. Rick Perry indictment is weak
- 4 reasons why Rick Perry’s exercise of power got him in trouble
- Group whose complaint led to Rick Perry indictment no stranger to political retaliation
- Rick Perry serves up red meat at Americans for Prosperity summit in Dallas
- Perry blasts Obama over border, terrorism threat
- The New Rick Perry – this is a worthwhile read
- With veto power, Rick Perry influenced, targeted and vexed
- Ted Cruz’s 2014 GOP Victory Plan
- In Texas, Cruz sounds like he’s running in 2016
- Ted Cruz Brings Anti-Washington Shtick to Dallas
- Kingwood Tea Party Freedom Rally with Ted Cruz
- Cruz dismisses talk of government shutdown over immigration
- Cruz, Perry comparisons again surface with dueling speeches
- Hidalgo Co. Democrats: Campaign workers tell FBI they gave voters cocaine for commissioner’s 2012 bid
- On Ben Carson, 2016, and Moving On | RedState
- Conservative group cites Khator texts in complaint against Senator Whitmire, Sen. Whitmire says criminal complaint against him “has no legs”
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- Report: Immigration ‘Off the Table Through the Elections’
- Why the president doesn’t need to be best friends with his own party in Congress – and often isn’t
- Cornyn Calls on President to Work with Congress on ISIL
- Stockman: Middle East is on fire and being overrun by radical Islam
- Rep. Blake Farenthold honors UPS workers; makes deliveries in Corpus Christi
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- Federal Judge Halts Key Part of Texas Abortion Safety Law
- Texas Attorney General Abbott appeals abortion ruling
- Abbott Opinion Murky on Plastic Bag Bans
- Abbott, Davis fight over redistricting fees headed back to court
- Trial over Texas voter ID begins this week
- Fate of Texas’ Voter ID Law to Be Determined in Court – a court-shopped lawsuit with a lib-judge.
- Conservatives ask court to keep Texas homosexual-marriage ban
- Texas Leads Nation in Online Education
- New foster care rules to increase child safety take effect Sept. 1
- Federal judge returns City of Houston same-sex case back to state court
- CDC Director: Ebola Outbreak ‘Is Spiraling Out Of Control’
- Deadliest rivers in Texas
- Gov. Perry Renews Proclamation Extending Drought Emergency
- Gov. Perry Names Arambula Chair of Texas Medical Board
- Speaker Straus makes appointments to Economic Stabilization (Rainy Day) Fund committee
- New ERCOT report provides details on available resources for fall and winter
- Texas looks to Supreme Court to block Confederate license plates – silly, the plate is fine.
- ‘Historical racing’ approved, but legal fight continues
- Halliburton reaches $1B Gulf oil spill settlement
- State seizes popular Nederland restaurant
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- Oil Output to Exceed 2 Million Barrels Per Day in West Texas
- Houston’s tallest apartment tower nearing completion (40-story)
- BNSF Transload Rail Park in Sweetwater now providing services
- Landowner Forum Discussing Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s Endangered Species Act Listing
- S&P ups American Airlines Group’s outlook to positive
- American Airlines is back on Orbitz
- Waco judge calls Sierra Club air pollution suit “frivolous”
- Addison cosmetics firm more than doubling operations
- Dallas-area home prices up 9 percent in July
- J.J. Watt agrees to six-year, $100 million deal with the Texans
- Bo Porter, Dave Trembley fired; Tom Lawless named new Astros manager
- The Hamon Foundation pledges $2 million to Pickens hospice center
- A century later, little-known Texas Pacific still marching higher
- Wyoming rodeo leader will replace Houston’s Shafer
- SpaceX, Blue Origin Compete for NASA Contract
- Texas Wine Cooperative VIDEO
- Push for major league soccer stadium on in San Antonio
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- Ex-Crystal Beach fire chief indicted for mishandling public money
- Former DPS trooper denied immunity in shooting lawsuit
- Memorial Hermann confidential patient information accessed
- Baylor study: Students ‘addicted to mobile phones’: Some spending up to ten hours a day texting, emailing and on social media
- Explosion involving fireworks kills one man, injures another in Arlington
- 52-foot luxury yacht burns under Kemah Bridge VIDEO
- Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan wants to be ‘citizen’ of Islamic State caliphate
- Stilettos, Pick Axes, Bed Frames And Other Murder Trial Evidence
- Crowley Woman Allegedly Leaves Grandchild in Car to Go Shopping
- Houston Police Say Man Killed Swinging Crutch at Cars on I-45
- Waxahachie School Bus Crash Sends 12 Kids to Hospital
- Student rushed to hospital following wreck between two Harlingen ISD school buses
- Crash in Abilene Kills Former Sheppard Air Force Base Pilot VIDEO, 2-Year-Old Plane Crash Victim Released from Hospital
- Girl, 5, dies after San Angelo domestic dispute
- Prisoner hangs self to death in Fort Worth city jail
- Texas’ top cotton marketing expert, Dr. Carl Anderson, dies
- U.S. Marshals Office Arrests Fugitive in Odessa
- Despite Low Turn Out, Chicano Moratorium Rally Held in Odessa VIDEO
- Dolly forms, could produce showers over Houston later today
- Hazardous Rip Current Warning Issued Through Wednesday
- Padre Island National Seashore, South Beach Temporarily Closed to Vehicle Traffic
- Body of missing kayaker recovered by Equusearch
- 6 dead after speeding car slams into tree in Texas
- Funeral for Elmendorf police chief
- 17-year-old cousin arrested in Dallas girl’s death
- Child’s toy grenade causes bomb scare at North Side apartment in San Antonio
- Two Teens Injured In Fall From Ride At El Paso Church Bazaar
- Fake deputies storm home, rob Liberty County family
- Dozens of collies seized at Tomball home
- Beaten to Death at McDonald’s next to Texas A&M
- Mass fight at Cypress Whataburger after big night of High School football
- New York Times writes about homosexual “Pride” event in Lubbock
- Beer-Hauling Truck Wrecks In Houston, Spills Cases
- Ex-nurse Linda Woodman gets 20 years for 2012 fatal crash in Austin
- Trash fire burns, kills Fayette Co. man
- Houston Daycare Van Hijacked With 5 Kids Inside, Kids Now Safe
- Rare 750 Horsepower Camaro Headed to Dallas for Auction
- Report: Fire burns down Mack Brown’s North Carolina home
- Central Texas Woman Found Dead 5 Days After Rural Crash
- Six Killed in Oak Cliff Crash VIDEO
- Mom mistakenly handcuffed in front of children, demands Forney PD reform
- Houston doctors planning separation of conjoined twin girls
Political and other Texas news for 9/2/2014
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