- Turner wants Straus to help request vote on speaker
- Last Contested Vote for Texas House Speaker Was in 1975
- SD18: Gov. Rick Perry endorses Lois Kolkhorst in senate race
- SD18: Odds Favor Kolkhorst in Race for Hegar’s Seat
- HD55: For Rep.-Elect Molly White, Abortion Changed Everything
- GQ Magazine names Rick Perry among least influential people of 2014 – GQ is the expert is it?
- Report: GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson deems Ted Cruz “too right wing” – no surprise, he runs casinos for a living!
- Texan Ted Cruz: ’’I don’t think I’m all that conservative’
- Ted Cruz Suggests Romney and Christie Will Run In 2016
- Ross Douthat: How Obama became an imperial president
- ADL blasts pastor John Hagee for calling Obama anti-Semitic – the ADL has become little more than a Leftwing front group, sadly.
- ———-Texas government / issues————
- Spending Cap Sophistry
- Rep. Simmons files HB373 to end fund diversion from TxDOT
- Martinez discusses top transportation issues for 84th Legislature
- Rep. Simmons files term limit bill – limits statewide officeholders while benefiting legislators
- Sen. Kirk Watson files two consumer-friendly insurance bills
- Court tosses out AgendaWise lawsuit over video streaming of Legislature and media credentials
- EPA: Coal plants should spend $2B to cut emissions
- EPA rejects Texas plan to cut haze-causing pollution from coal plants
- Water Issues at TDCJ Robertson Unit, Inmate Reaches Out VIDEO
- Millions of Texans Lose Drivers Licenses to Surcharge Program – millions? I’ve not seen that figure in all the story on it. Seems quite an exaggeration.
- Drug Arrest Of Texas Border Sheriff’s Deputy Highlights Region’s Corruption
- How to Confront Historical Marker Mayhem
- Gov. Perry Again Renews Proclamation Extending Drought Emergency
- DPS: Three Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives Captured in Del Rio & Mexico
- Allow homosexual marriage in Texas now, judge urged
- Texas Public School Growth Jumps 19% Over Last Decade
- Ship Channel Shows a State Vulnerable to Climate Effects – no kidding. The planet is always changing and every part of it it “vulnerable” to changes. That’s what change is: change.
- Texas Appeals Court Won’t Halt Delusional Inmate’s Execution
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz Doubles Down: Block Obama’s Appointees VIDEO
- Sen. Cornyn: Thankful For Those Who Serve
- Sheila Jackson Lee reacts to Ferguson verdict
- Peter H. Schuck: Yes, Congress can impeach Obama
- GOP leaders uniting around plan to avoid “shutdown”
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Case-Shiller: Dallas-area home price gains fourth highest in U.S.
- Texas companies are optimistic about the future, taking extra steps to recruit and retain employees
- Texas oil drilling slipped in October
- Cheap Saudi Gas Poses Significant Threat to Texas Economy
- Gas Prices Drop Across Texas Amid Busy Travel Time
- Pop quiz: Has the number of checked bags per passenger gone up at Southwest Airlines in recent years?
- Southwest Airlines union to highlight lost bags in anti-company picketing – Let’s see. They handle the bags and yet want to highlight how poorly they do so?! Sounds like a union to me.
- Union criticizes Southwest Airlines’ record on bag handling
- Ford dealer Sam Pack buys Van Chevrolet
- For former jet engineer, retirement equals chance to clean air
- Ron Kirk joins Dallas-Houston bullet train developer
- Dallas-based Home Health Company Encompass Bought For $750 Million
- —————Statewide general——————
- 2 TDCJ prison guards killed, another injured, teenager killed in vehicle crash near Lamesa
- Guitarist: Leon Russell band’s instruments stolen in San Antonio
- Man sentenced in heroin death of Boone Pickens’ grandson
- Harris Co. family saves puppy stuck in bucket VIDEO
- Ector County Authorities Unveil Reconstructed Face of Body Found in June
- Three Workers Injured in Reeves County Oilfield Explosion
- Member of prominent El Paso family killed in plane crash
- Appeals court denies Leach appeal in James, ESPN, Spaeth defamation case
- College student detained in Fort Sam Houston lockdown, had no explosives in car
- Five children die in Southeast Texas mobile home fire
- Irving’s 4 latest quakes are near well site
- Police: Shot fired into home of Kilgore College trustee
- Police: Woman run over by own SUV in South Texas
- One person dead after Amtrak passenger train collides with truck
- 11K AEP Texas customers lost power for more than hour in Coastal Bend
- Big rig bursts into flames on Interstate 35 in San Marcos
- Hess employee pleads guilty to $1M fraud
- Longtime AP reporter Juan Carlos Llorca dies at 40
- 2.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Irving Tuesday
Political and other Texas news for 11/25/2014
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