- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Texas House proposes lean budget
- Straus: Budget Plan Reflects Fiscal Discipline
- Conservatives Had Big Effect in Rules Fight
- Nichols shares details of bill that would boost Texas highway funding
- On the Economics of Medicaid Expansion
- Arkansas Medicaid Plan Offers Mixed Lessons
- Abbott: No way I’ve ‘embraced Medicaid expansion’
- Abbott taps team to investigate state’s Health and Human Services contract practices
- Investigation spurs lawmakers to seek child protection agency changes
- Erica Stick is third top Texas health official to resign amid scandal
- 4th Texas health agency resigns amid contracting scandal
- Prominent Houston-area leaders hold forum on criminal justice
- State program out of space to hold sex offenders
- AG Ken Paxton: President Obama’s Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Tramples on U.S. Constitution
- Texas Government Insider weekly edition
- Texas Urges U.S. Judge to Delay Obama Immigration Shift
- More Spending Underway to Boost Texas Obamacare Signups in 2015
- U.S. Supreme Courts to hear homosexual marriage ban issue
- Texas Values talks 5th Circuit Marriage Case with FRC’s Washington Watch
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Greg Abbott headed to governor’s office with $12.5 million war chest
- Lt. Gov.-elect Patrick raised $2.6 million in campaign donations in late 2014
- Speaker Straus raked in $1.4 million in end-of-year contributions
- Perry spends $1 million in campaign cash fighting indictment
- Rick Perry bids adieu to Legislature with eye on bigger prize VIDEO
- Gov. Perry says adios to state government, praises state for accomplishments
- The Best Job-Creating Governors? Bush and Perry
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he’ll be ubiquitous in early primary states
- Statement by Gov. Perry on President Obama’s Recent Iran Comments
- Special interest groups dominate contributions to Texas comptroller – every group is a “special interest”
- Lawsuit claims Dallas County’s commissioner districts discriminate against whites
- Citizens Fight Back with Petition Drive to Repeal City of Plano’s Unconstitutional Anti-Religious Liberty Ordinance
- Which business group is fighting for small business in Austin?
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- The News with Sen. Cruz – January 16, 2015 VIDEO
- Sen. Cruz: How We Will Lead VIDEO
- Texas’ black U.S. House members join session on averting another Ferguson
- Gohmert gets an oversight chairmanship, despite challenging House Speaker John Boehner
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Oil heads for longest weekly losing streak since 1986
- Schlumberger to cut 9,000 employees, including in Houston
- Wage growth for oil workers slowed in 2014, data firm says
- Texas oil boom heading for bust in a hurry; downturn may be prolonged
- United Airlines plans to offer flight between Houston and Cuba
- Consultant doesn’t see much short-term potential for Cuba flights
- American Airlines pilots fly their first Boeing 787 Dreamliner
- Plano gun training site re-enacts France attack
- US opens to Mexican long-haul truckers after 3-year pilot
- H-E-B debuts its first two-story market in Texas
- Developers eyeing DART HQ in downtown Dallas for mixed-use project
- Dallas-Fort Worth office building market hopes for more boom times in 2015
- Which business group is fighting for small business in Austin?
- Austin rent expected to jump 4.5 percent in 2015
- —————Statewide general——————
- Four Abilene ISD teachers under investigation for alleged sexual relations with students
- Webster detective testifies in ‘Money Mike’ case
- Katy husband charged with strangling wife with zip-tie
- Former UH football player, wife in apparent murder-suicide
- American Sniper’s Family Previews Oscar-Nominated Film In Waco VIDEO
- Whitney man convicted of killing his teenage daughter VIDEO
- Karate instructor, 16, charged with sex assault of child, 6
- 17-year-old faces child porn charges after recording classmates in San Antonio school bathroom
- Austin dentist arrested in Panama for 1998 assault case
- Two killed on San Antonio’s North Side
- Helicopter crashes in The Woodlands
- 26 settle suit in Midland veterans parade crash that killed 4
- Car Gets Stuck Under Houston School Bus
- Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch High School Evacuated Friday After Officials Discover Potential Bomb Threat
- TDCJ Releases New Update on Condition of Bus Crash Survivors, NTSB Begins Investigation into Deadly Bus Crash, Families of Victims in Bus Crash Taking Legal Action
- Man faces up to life term for Texas role in Mexico abduction
- East Texas couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Deputies responded to custody calls before 4 Texas deaths
Political and other Texas news for 1/16/2015
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