- How Republican is Texas? Count the Ways.
- SD 18 Special Election: Gary Gates touts Ron Paul endorsement and calls Kolkhorst a liberal
- SD18: Gates’ closing message: Kolkhorst is a “liberal” AUDIO – laughable
- Partisanship at issue in battle for Van de Putte’s Senate seat
- HD123: Two contenders jump into Texas house race
- Democrat Chris Bell’s lawsuit over fundraising rules set for January
- The biggest political fails in 2014
- Inside Texas Politics: The 2014 Turkey Awards VIDEO
- GOP Has 5 Hispanics in the Texas legislature, Again
- G.O.P. Gains by Tapping Democrats’ Base for State Candidates – NYTimes.com
- Rick Perry ramps up
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- Why a Texas budget battle is looming in a time of plenty
- Analysis: The Politics of the State Growth Rate
- Texas lawmakers set $94.3 billion budget cap
- State leaders set tighter spending limit than required, rebut critics on the right
- Texas budget board picks lowest spending cap, OK’s border funds
- Texas OKs extra $86M for border security ‘surge’
- Lawmakers Approve $86 Million for Border Surge
- New Texas legislature may be surprisingly moderate, observers say
- Abbott seeks new spending but wouldn’t raise tax revenue
- Who’s advising Abbott on budget, policy stuff? John Colyandro, for one
- Rep. Tan Parker announces run for House GOP caucus chair
- Texas appeals court judge calls for abolishing death penalty
- Tough Texas gets results by going softer on crime – not exactly but a catchy headline
- As Texas lottery grows, some study ending it
- Texas’ rebooted cancer agency shifting priorities
- Texas health official who steered deals has ties to firm’s lobbyist
- Kitchen smoke at TDCJ prison delays Thanksgiving feast for inmates
- Texas towns test oil and gas industry on fracking
- Will Dan and Fran Keller be exonerated?
- Freed Texas Daycare Owners Request ‘Exoneration’ From Faulty Child Abuse Charges After Years in Prison
- Mentally ill inmate set to die Wednesday for Hill Country double slaying
- Conservative stalwarts urge Texas to spare Scott Panetti
- Local officials worry about impact of state tax changes
- New Culprit Threatens Bastrop State Park’s Rebirth Years After Fire
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Texans hope for new life for bills as GOP takes over Senate
- Texas’ power on the rise in Congress
- Congress crams unfinished agenda into final two weeks
- House panel OKs bill to resolve Red River land dispute
- Internet sales tax expansion appears stalled in Congress
- Ralph Hall moving out after decades-long service in Congress
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Oil prices, stocks sink lower following OPEC meeting
- Oil tumbles below $65 as OPEC seen failing to slow shale
- Plunging crude prices hammer energy companies
- OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says
- The oil region including Texas shows signs of economic decline, index says
- Fuel Fix » Decades-old laws figure in oil export debate
- Q&A: Siemens boss charged up about oil field electricity
- C&J Energy starts 30-day search for alternative buyers
- Drilling Deeper: Acquisitions, expansions, and media mixology
- Private jet membership takes off in Dallas
- Airlines carry 13% more passengers at Dallas Love Field last month than in October 2013
- J.C. Penney issues upbeat statement regarding Thanksgiving Day sales
- Holiday results are crucial for RadioShack
- DuPont: 23K pounds of toxic gas escaped from plant
- Clay County Family Taps Into Whiskey Business VIDEO
- Dawson Co. solar energy “farm” gets tax abatement
- HUD seeks new buyer for Lakeway hospital after default
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- Ex-Bangs police chief takes deal for five-year deferred adjudication
- Off-duty Harris Co. deputy accused of road rage attack
- Fired Dallas police officer found not guilty of official oppression, assault VIDEO
- Austin police kill shooter who fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings
- Officials identify Austin gunman as Larry Steve McQuilliams
- Dallas crews pick up storm debris equaling weight of 11,000 pickups
- Beaumont doctor faces trial in painkiller deaths
- Ex-Ohio minister arrested in Texas in funds flap, more
- Witnesses: Driver plunged 20 feet into downtown Houston construction site pit
- Houston’s MLK statue vandalized by “two black males”
- Houston man uses Facebook to find FedEx package allegedly stolen from doorstep VIDEO
- Brownwood Chef Wins International Recognition VIDEO
- Truck Crashes into Midland Home on Thanksgiving, Following Similar Christmas Eve Accident
- Turkey crashes through windshield, ends up as dinner for grateful family
- In ‘Disaster City,’ Learning To Use Robots To Face Ebola
- Unlikely homosexual marriage pioneers tied knot in Houston in 1972
- The Rise and Fall of a North Texas Con Man
- Community braces for ex-Kaufman County JP’s murder trial
- Bill Cosby sees a “feel good” Dallas gig canned under rape allegations
- McAllen Police Officer Shot When Approaching Vehicle
- East Texas youth pastor sentenced for producing child pornography
- 5 killed when vehicles collide in Texas Panhandle
- Texas Church Accused of Refusing to Bury Member Because She Didn’t Attend While In a Coma
- Barricaded Suspect Killed by Midland Police – quite a “welfare check”.
- Orion gives NASA and Houston a means to fly, a cause for hope
Political and other Texas news for 12/1/2014
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