- GOP chief: Texas more competitive than some assume
- A Conversation with the Texas Political Party Chairmen VIDEO
- Abbott on Affordable higher education in Texas
- Despite Huge Warchest, Abbott Still Fundraising
- Burka: Abbott and the Money Machine – hmm, I’ve never seen him complain about Democrat fundraising.
- Wendy Davis leapfrogging abortion to sympathy?
- Letter to the Editor: A no vote for Wendy
- Davis criticized for leaving Texas to promote book
- Wendy Davis seeks to rouse dormant Democratic giant in Texas VIDEO
- Wendy Davis: Keep the Rick Perry business-subsidy fund, but make sure it’s actually creating jobs – I’m so sick of this characterization coming from politicians and mostly the press. It’s NOT Rick Perry’s fund. It was created by the Legislature and its members continue to fund it. It is simply administered by the governor, whomever serves in that role.
- Patrick adopts stealth strategy for lieutenant gov race – stealth? He’ll appear on NW Texas’ #1 radio program, Pratt on Texas, tomorrow.
- Democrat Railroad Commissioner candidate proposes ‘water conservation plan’ for fracking – much of this the Commission is already doing except of course the typical anti-energy Dem position of phasing out permits.
- Cornyn Endorsed By NRA; Alameel Silent On Gun Rights
- TX23: SuperPacs commit $1 million in effort to oust Gallego
- Groups spend big to help House GOP in midterms
- SD28: Charles Perry handily wins SD28 seat
- SD28: Tea Party Gains Another Win With Perry’s State Senate Landslide Victory
- SD28: Arrington takes Hale but loses Senate election
- SD28: Big Country favors Charles Perry in Senate District 28 race
- SD28: Charles Perry and Jodey Arrington Issue Statements After Special Election
- SD28: Perry ‘honored’ to fill Senate seat for West Texas
- SD28: Perry’s gamble pays off: Senate win boosts Lubbock Republican’s political capital
- SD28: Rep. Perry wins West Texas Senate seat
- SD28: Sullivan: Congratulations, Charles Perry!
- Cruz moves key staff to campaign operations
- Ted Cruz stirs 2016 pot with moves
- Ted Cruz’s Chief of Staff Move to Campaign Team a Hopeful Sign
- GOP Hopefuls, Light on Experience, Try to Build Foreign Credentials
- Analysis: New Think Tank Taking a DIY Approach – silly to even suggest that it’s not controlled by a certain ideology, if nothing else the ideology of those who do the thinking control it. I don’t see any conservatives on the “eclectic board”
- Candidate Susan Hawk says district attorney elections should be non-partisan – Bull, bull, bull s***.
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- Sen. Cruz Questions IRS About Decision To Audit Breitbart News
- Cruz, House members slam Senate Dems for not voting on immigration bill
- Ted Cruz blasts Obama over ‘amnesty’ for [illegal] immigrants
- Illegal immigration advocates shadow Sen. Ted Cruz
- Sen. Cruz: Senate Democrats Have Done Nothing To Stand Up To President Obama’s Amnesty VIDEO
- Cruz: Udall Amendment Is ‘Most Radical Proposal’ I’ve Seen VIDEO
- Liberal Illiberalism | National Review Online
- Senate Hearing Focuses on Use of Military Equipment VIDEO
- Stockman blocks EPA power grab, urges Congress to strip bureaucrats of unchecked power
- Neugebauer Votes to Prevent Federal Overreach in Texas Waters
- Cornyn Urges Obama To Offer Plan with Clear Objectives for Defeating ISIL
- What Central Texas members of Congress expect from Obama’s speech
- Gohmert still in race to run Republican Study Committee
- House plan would extend Export-Import Bank through June
- A Reminder: There’s No Economic Case for Ex-Im, and the ‘Win Win’ Policy Have Plenty of Losers
- Rep. Beto O’Rourke wants Congress to vote on use of U.S. military against ISIS
- Richest members of Congress include four from Texas
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- Dewhurst asks for TWIA review, suggests shutting down agency
- Lt. gov suggests looking at ending state windstorm insurance agency
- Grusendorf: Judge Dietz Erred In School Finance Case –- Money alone is no solution
- Senator: State Not Moving to Make Voter IDs Available
- DPS official’s emails questioned in voter ID trial
- Texas Textbook Adoption Process Criticized By Texas Freedom Network President
- Foster Care Face Lift In Texas
- Texas Department of Agriculture Announces Assistance for Organic Growers
- ‘State should compensate Valley for negative publicity’ – ridiculous & laughable
- TSCRA Cattlemen’s Column: Securing Texas Landowners’ Private Property Rights
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- Texas sales tax receipts up 7.5% over same period in 2013
- Top 20 City Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary – September 2014, all cities
- August sales tax receipts tie a bow on good state fiscal year
- ADP forecasts that Texas led U.S. job creation in August
- Drought Causes Problems for Cattle Ranchers VIDEO
- Midland Call Center Closure Will Result in More Than 300 Layoffs
- New-car sales are likely to flatten next year
- New Uptown Dallas office tower will open in early 2016
- Employees Of Troubled Mart Nursing Home Will Be Paid VIDEO
- Is the Energy Towers at City Center project in Midland a no-go?
- New master-planned community to compete with The Woodlands VIDEO
- Texas State Railroad Names New General Manager, Roadmaster
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- John Wiley Price trial is likely to stay in Dallas
- No charges for former Hearne police officer who shot, killed 93-year-old
- Floating nuclear power plant to be unrigged in Galveston
- Small plane crashes near La Porte, 2 unhurt
- Small plane makes forced landing near Pasadena
- Officials: One dead after plane crashes in Austin
- Plane in fatal Austin crash registered to Dallas owner VIDEO
- 32 whooping crane chicks expected to fly to Texas
- Humane society outbreak in New Braunfels kills dogs, halts adoptions
- Dojo owner arrested on child sex charges
- HipDingo co-owner guilty in $1.6M fraud
- Vikki Carr turns KSAT-TV glitch into glory VIDEO
- Five El Campo students hospitalized after ingesting mystery pill
- People near ‘fracking’ wells report health woes – of course they do just as those near nuclear plants claim the same no matter what the real evidence shows.
- Willie Tyrone Trottie Faces Execution Tonight
- Appeals rejected, Texas inmate heads for execution
- Accident involving deputy constable patrol unit north of Weslaco
- HEB customers hold down robbery suspect until police arrive
- Police: Sweep leads to 30 gang arrests in Galveston
- Police: Armed Galveston street gang had members young as 11
- Court records reveal Haskell planned and plotted shooting rampage VIDEO
- Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive arrested in Victoria
Political and other Texas news for 9/10/2014
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