- Dallas County Republican Party Endorses Scott Turner for Texas Speaker
- New pledges likely to keep Straus in speaker post
- Nine more North Texas Republican Reps proudly announce support for Straus
- Straus: ‘I’ll leave threats, intimidation to others’ – he does such in private.
- Attorney General-Elect Ken Paxton Announces His Transition Team
- Paxton taps top Cruz adviser as first assistant AG
- A Loss For Cruz and a Win For Texas
- Paxton returns another lawyer’s $1,000 pen he picked up at courthouse metal detector
- Ken Paxton associate named in securities action
- Sen. Creighton files SCR1 on 10th Amendment Rights
- Sen. Perry: Bill against Texas sanctuary cities reborn, SB185 text
- Sen. Perry bill on illegal immigration targets ‘sanctuary cities’
- Open carry bills already filed for legislative session VIDEO
- Sen. Lucio: Texas should re-establish Good Neighbor Commission
- Sen. Creighton files bill on repealing the Franchise Tax, SB186
- Rep. Fletcher Files Bill to Allow Drivers With Warrants to Pay Fine to Avoid Arrest
- Does Abortion Trump Religious Liberty? | National Review Online
- Rand Paul hires Ted Cruz’s digital guru
- ———-Texas government / issues————
- Why big-healthcare is behind Texas Medicaid expansion push
- Insurers, Obama allied as Affordable Care Act boosts profits
- Perry prosecutor cleared in contempt case
- Texas Leaders Extend State-Led Border Surge
- Texas officials seek $86M to extend border security push
- Perry, Dewhurst and Straus Extend Texas Border Surge Through August 2015
- Prop 1’s Toll Prohibition Is Effectively Meaningless
- Consultants Get a Cut of State Incentive Deals – a bit misleading. Consultants get paid by their business clients not directly by the state.
- Freedom to Marry launches statewide homosexual marriage campaign in Texas
- State Board of Education gives proposed textbooks final review
- Mills: Denton voters fall prey to radical environmentalists
- ERCOT says EPA’s CO2 plan would cause higher electric prices
- Texans to Pay 20% Carbon Tax on Electric Bills
- 3000 Unaccompanied Minors in Houston Schools
- Texas Sues Dallas Church For $277,279
- $6.5 Million Available to Programs Serving Texas Veterans
- Coastal resiliency gets flood of cash from BP
- Texas Prisons To Alter Rules On Inmates Who Marry
- State: Harrison County voters rights’ impeded
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz: Stand with Israel Against Palestinian Terrorism
- Ted Cruz Explains Internet Freedom in Nine Seconds VIDEO
- Ted Cruz blasts e-fairness as “massive national sales tax;” calls Obama “angry and defiant”
- State lawmakers press Boehner on online sales tax
- Poll: Majority of Americans Want Keystone Pipeline Built
- GOP vows to pass Keystone later if bill fails now
- Vote Expected Soon for Chairman of Armed Services Committee
- Neugebauer: FHA Remains Broken, Needs Structural Reform
- Cornyn: Bypassing Congress on Immigration Will Harm Opportunity for Real Reform
- Rep. Bill Flores named head of Republican Study Committee, more
- Illegal Immigrants Protest Sessions, Cruz, McConnell in Senate Offices
- Sheila Jackson Lee: ‘Selfish’ for America to Deny Illegals Amnesty, Work Permits
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Texas Cities Dominate Ranking of America’s Most Affordable Metro Areas
- Ag microloan cap grows to $50,000
- Schnurman: Union trouble at American Airlines? Say it ain’t so
- Is American Airlines prepared to drop its ‘scope’ request to pilots?
- Head of Envoy Air pilot union warns that more cutbacks are coming at the carrier
- Malls’ owner may turn Plano’s Collin Creek, Lewisville’s Vista Ridge over to lender
- CBS warns Dish Network’s Dallas customers the network could go dark at the end of the week – you can get a better signal of local broadcasters over the air with a simple antenna.
- Texas crop, weather: Freeze came at just about the right time for South Plains cotton
- State’s Emptiest County, Loving, Filling Up With Oil Workers, Hope VIDEO
- Uranium Energy Corp Reports a 77% Increase in Estimated Uranium Resource at Burke Hollow Project in South Texas
- Deep Eddy Co-Founder Talks Distillery Process, Real Ingredients VIDEO
- Redevelopment of Austin’s UMC Brackenridge site being planned
- Executive Salaries Increase Most At Independent Hospitals
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- Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to harboring immigrants
- District Attorney’s Office wants official oppression charge against Harris County deputy constable
- DPS Reminder: Reward Increased to $10,000 for Most Wanted Fugitive
- OSHA Investigates Fatality at rig site near Big Spring
- Former Texas Ranger, Nazarene pastor funeral today
- Closing arguments begin in Texas hit-man trial, more, more
- Ex-banker in Big Spring gets prison for $1M theft
- Ex-owner of Bryan clinic gets prison for fraud
- Police officer shoots man in Laredo after chase
- Midland: Undercover Officers Bust Four Men in Child Predator Sting
- Discovery Of Skull Ends Search For Sex Offender Fugitive Ex-Fort Hood Soldier
- Wrongful Death Suit Filed In DuPont Chemical Leak
- Nugent’s family angry Bernie Tiede is out of jail
- Austin FD calls off ‘suspicious package’ investigation at VA clinic
- Austin-Travis Co. EMS see another spike in K2 cases
- Edinburg School Bus Crash Sends 7 To The Hospital
- Crews Respond to Accident Between Tuloso-Midway School Bus, Car
- Frisco School Bus Catches Fire, No Injuries Reported
- 2 Students, Adult Treated After Fire at Haltom High School
- Would-be car thieves in Haltom City jump into idling vehicle – with detective inside
- 4 hurt in Dallas police chase, crash
- Quitman mother arrested for murder months after daughters die
- E. Texas woman must repay $564K in fraudulent student loans
- DPS Troopers seize $159,000 in Marijuana
- Bar owner charged amid money laundering investigation
- Swear words cost Harlingen man hundreds of dollars
- Patient at Housotn’s Ben Taub Hospital now being tested for Ebola VIDEO
- Woman sentenced for threatening to kill Obama
Political and other Texas news for 11/18/2014
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