- Five — and a Half — Things We Won’t Forget About Texas’ Longest-Serving Governor, NY Times’ version
- Perry touts ‘Texas model’ after historic term, eyes 2016
- Perry hits Clinton on ‘feckless foreign policy’
- Analysis: Skill or Luck, It Has Worked for Perry
- ‘Invalid’ dark money rules threaten grassroots politics
- Insiders craft speech rules to trap outsiders
- They didn’t call it dark money when the other side was burning crosses
- Tarrant County GOP activists hope to oust House Speaker Joe Straus
- Analysis: New Officeholders, and a Possible Power Shift
- Democrats see glimmer of hope in Legislature despite numbers
- Hegar Announces Leadership Team as Incoming Texas Comptroller
- Lame-duck Texas Sen. Bob Deuell reflects on a conservatism he doesn’t recognize – because he’s not a conservative like so many of these moderate Republicans. They’ve never been well informed or adherents of philosophical conservative. Instead they believe big gov’t is fine but that it can be run better and smarter by Republicans than Democrats.
- SD26: Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer spends big on TV ads
- SD 26 special election: TMF, Menéndez combine to drop half million on TV time to woo West Side voters
- SD26: Texas Right to Life endorses Alma Perez Jackson for State Senate
- HD17: THSC PAC Supports Brent Goleman in special election
- Lobbyists buying condo from David Dewhurst are warned about partying
- Battleground Texas Whines About Complying With Texas Election Laws, more
- Doctors discuss discharge dates for former President Bush
- Cass Sunstein: The graceful silence of George W. Bush
- Summing Up the Year: ABC Praises Pope Francis for Something He Didn’t Say
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- Editorial: Texas Legislature should repeal laws
- Texas Budget Writer to Help Mongolia With Its Finances
- DeVore: Strengthening the Texas Model During the Upcoming Session
- Texas Legislature unlikely to boost school funds in upcoming session
- Fast-growth school districts lobby for relief from cap on debt service
- Guarding State Control of Public Schools — With Money on the Line
- Editorial: UIL should tweak playoff rules in response to Sen. Perry’s proposal
- Legislature to consider ban on e-cigarette sales to minors
- 2015 bills aimed at curbing Texas’ growing tuition
- Sen. Nichols questions Texas mental hospital privatization efforts
- Editorial – Don’t rush deal to privatize hospital
- Some lawmakers want to bring more people under the Medicaid [welfare] umbrella
- Burka: A Path to Medicaid Expansion?
- High noon for federal health records program?
- LUPE seeks funds to help push for driver’s licenses for immigrants
- Victor Medina: In defense of in-state tuition for undocumented students
- Tesla brings the lobbyists
- Legislature to consider new office buildings in Austin
- Plum state jobs going to Perry aides, newspaper finds
- As Perry’s term ends, 200-plus former aides remain in the state’s employ
- Court panel a blow to Texas abortion providers
- SCOTUS to hear sonogram case with possible implications for Texas
- Court taps judges to hear gay marriage case
- Texas air toxicologist does battle with EPA science on air emissions
- Port of Brownsville takes issue with Sierra Club’s LNG analysis
- Perry judge, Bert Richardson, has plenty on his plate
- George Will: A Texas-sized license plate dispute
- At Health Ministries, Caring Means Sharing the Bills
- Health care system struggles to address needs of illegal immigrants
- Comal Co. to be first in US to test idea of letting indigent defendants choose attorney
- Judge clears man who spent 31 years in prison for Dallas rape
- Execution date set for man convicted of 1996 Tyler murder
- Ebola caregivers Dr. Kent Brantly and nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson as Texans of the Year by Dallas Morning News
- Texas doctors rarely charged in prescription drug epidemic
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- In New Congress, House Committees Will Carry a Strong Texas Accent
- Cruz, Cornyn and Internet sales tax
- How Chris Kraft got un-invited to a Senate hearing on spaceflight
- Rep. Brady: Sales tax deduction has saved Texas families more than $10 billion
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- What’s next for world oil as lower prices extend into 2015
- US rig count plummets 35 to 1,840, Texas count drops by 16
- Natural gas falls below $3 in latest slide
- Drilling permits down 50 percent last month in Texas
- Oil drillers are under pressure to scrap rigs to cope with downturn
- Alvarez: LNG Exports Will Create Economic Opportunity in Texas
- Canadian oil surge to U.S. Gulf puts Mexico on defensive
- RadioShack’s Problem: So Many Stores, So Few Shoppers
- RadioShack faces a tough January
- Feds investigate RadioShack’s handling of 401(K) money
- Whataburger Reigns Supreme in Texas Hamburgers
- Nearly 200,000 pounds of chorizo sold at H-E-B recalled
- National report ranks Houston’s housing market among the most overvalued
- 2014: North Texas real estate market is one for the records
- Texas ranchers seeking alternative incomes
- Houston’s most expensive private high schools
- D-FW office vacancy at lowest level in more than a decade, rents at new high
- Now departing: AirTran Airways flies off into the sunset after Southwest merger
- AirTran Airways flies its final flight
- The third time’s the charm as Envoy pilots OK new contract
- American Airlines employees to get 4 percent pay raises
- Etihad Airways flies fearlessly into competitive skies
- Obscurity helped Minyard strike deal to expand in Dallas
- Market Street’s parent to launch gift card exchange program
- Good whiskey, bad blood: Waco craft distiller, money man don’t mix
- Texas Scores Due to Our Beers and Wineries
- Toyota’s move to Texas among Automotive News’ top stories in 2014
- Construction starts on State Farm datacenter in Richardson
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- Texas Father Shot in Face by Son Over Christmas Fishing Rod
- Passenger headed to Dallas rages over ‘Merry Christmas,’ removed from plane
- GPS device helps nab mail theft suspect in Houston
- San Antonio man killed while teaching son how to ride bike
- Police: Man shoots, kills girlfriend on Christmas Day in San Antonio
- Watch burglars rip through laundromat wall, cut into change machine VIDEO
- Texas City police officer fatally shoots gunman, Fatal Texas City police shooting under investigation
- Family wants to see video in Texas City shooting
- Typo raises speculation of conspiracy in Houston PD shooting
- Dallas police: Officer lodges finger behind trigger to stop gunman
- From ‘turnt’ to ‘vape’: New words we learned in 2014
- Good Samaritan Gunman, CHL holder, Stops Assault In Progress
- Man fatally shot by North Texas homeowner, more VIDEO
- Error in lab may have exposed CDC technician to Ebola
- Both men linked to a bank robbery-turned-police shootout in Burleson are now in jail
- Dallas Cowboy DeMarco Murray Breaks a Huge NFL Record
- San Antonio-area blaze in senior-living high-rise kills 5, injures 10
- 17 in hospital after deadly Texas high-rise fire
- Woman to plead guilty in Kaufman Co. DA murder case
- SAPD: Man used drill to steal over $10,000 from San Antonio ice houses
- KCEN Meteorologist Released from Hospital After Shooting
- Shot Texas Meteorologist Updates His Condition
- Three adults, one child found dead inside Crowley home
- Hailey Dunn Case 4 Years Later, more, more VIDEO
- Odessa Family’s Dog Doused in Chemicals, Set on Fire VIDEO
- Alpine Man Assaults Brewster County Deputy
- Lubbock coin dealer Ed Chauncey handed 10-year prison sentence in theft case
- Teen arrested for posting photo of gun pointed at police car
Political and other Texas news for 12/29/2014
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