- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Texas Senate announces $4.6 billion tax cut package
- Senators offer a $240 tax break for average homeowner, tax cuts for business owners
- As usual, RINO Sen. Eltife has a problem supporting tax cuts
- More than expected: Patrick announces ‘big step forward’ with tax cut proposal
- House leaders say they envision $4 billion in tax relief
- Texas House leaders say they can top Senate in tax relief – great! Let’s see it.
- Comptroller: A Field Guide to the Taxes of Texas
- Rep. Joe Pickett: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s wish list will require cuts elsewhere
- Cities, state start fighting over who has local control
- Nichols’ & Bettencourt’s tax bills empower taxpayers
- High price tag of Texas border security plan draws scrutiny
- Finance Committee Ponders Border Security
- Changes to sales tax rebate for foreign buyers mulled
- Support builds for plan to boost TxDOT funding with vehicle sales tax revenue
- Sen. Perry Files Several Bills Encouraging Good Government
- Rep. Marquez files bill pro-homosexual benefits bill for state employees
- Pruitt: Legislature should fund effort to deliver healthy surplus food to needy Texans
- Time to fast-forward Texas election laws? – beware, more opening all up to cheating
- The Unacceptable David Beck [regent nominee for UT]
- BIG cost is a BIG lie about Campus CHL
- UT/TT Poll: Voters Less Open to Open Carry
- Licensed Carry Backed by Most in UT/TT Poll
- Texas tax holidays proposed for guns and ammo
- Free Speech Under Attack in Texas Legislature
- Sen. Campbell Faces Skepticism of Alamo Protection Proposal
- After 24 Years, Van de Putte Bids Farewell, more
- Texas teachers lobby for increased funding
- Editorial: Film incentives are a smart investment for Texas
- Adams: Texas Attorney General Stands Up for Texas Marriage Law
- Same-sex couple: Marriage ‘cannot be taken away from us’
- Consumer Alert: Beware of Spam Emails Claiming to Originate from the Texas Attorney General, Threatening Arrest
- Governor Abbott Re-Designates Leisure And Hogsett To Land And Water Conservation Fund
- Governor Abbott Appoints Christi Craddick To Southern States Energy Board
- Texas reconsiders and will disclose oil train records
- Editorial: Ike recovery money should’ve been spent long ago
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Ted Cruz 2016 effort adds Texas GOP finance chairman
- Man of the moment: In Texas, Scott Walker passes Perry, rivals Cruz
- Austin is Most Economically Segregated Metro Area – the ever-present contradiction of liberals on dislpay
- Obamacare law drives down U.S. rate of uninsured adults, survey finds – at what cost? Massive loss of freedom and much higher rates all the while NOT eliminating a still huge number of people being uninsured. That was the purpose, to get everyone insured.
- Feds, State raid Texas secessionist meeting in Bryan – “”You can’t just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren’t even real courts,” said Kerr County sheriff Rusty Hierholzer, who led the operation.”
- VA Secretary apologizes for false Special Forces claim
- Dallas, Fort Worth chambers develop accountability index for Texas lawmakers – that should be fun! You’ll see more as this is a plan being worked by the Speaker’s folk since last year – try and drown-out conservative scorecards with friendly ones.
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz Op-Ed in Politico: ‘Stop Loretta Lynch’
- Cruz looks to Mars, banters with Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts at first hearing as chairman
- More Than 180 Human Rights Groups Endorse Cornyn, Wyden, Kirk, and Klobuchar’s Bipartisan Human Trafficking Bill
- Religions of Texas representatives on Capitol Hill
- Granger pushes Obama to send F-16s to Egypt
- TX4’s John Ratcliffe: The TT Interview
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Despite Low Prices, Texas Oil Group Stays Optimistic
- Texas oil association warns of economic hit, urges restraint on local drilling regulation
- Midland: No. 1 in pay for engineers in the US
- Halliburton list shows layoffs hitting all levels of oil patch
- Oil jobs could come to San Antonio despite industry downturn
- State oil and gas industry posts record revenue payments in 2014
- First Bank Lubbock Bancshares Acquires Colorado City Bank
- Oldham wind farm set for 2015
- Texas crop, weather for Feb. 24, 2015
- Aldi sees potential for 450 stores in Texas
- Boom in Frisco is big even by Texas standards
- Sale of Brinkmann Ranch tract will bring hundreds of new homes to Frisco
- Rackspace employee sues over son’s leg break on slide
- Tenaris to lay off 230 in Conroe
- Enterprise Products, Anadarko, Markwest and DCP announce joint venture for NGL pipeline
- Allegiant to add Brownsville-Las Vegas flight
- Grand Prairie indoor ski resort plans canceled
- —————Statewide general——————
- Grape Creek ISD Teacher Under Investigation for Improper Relationship with Student
- Police: Brownsville teacher had inappropriate relationship with student
- Rio Grande City mayor’s son arrested for allegedly selling marijuana
- Former Victoria Housing Authority commissioner sentenced for theft
- Wichita Falls homeowner shot by suspected burglar – better to be prepared
- Anti-Wimp: Homeowner Captures Burglar Hiding in Closet
- San Antonio mayoral candidate’s mother robbed at gunpoint in Southeast Side home invasion
- Killeen: Fort Hood soldier fatally shoots 3, kills self
- Chris Kyle had no chance to defend himself, expert testifies
- UPDATE: Ex-Marine Routh found guilty in killing Chris Kyle & Chad Littlefield
- Two Killed in East Texas Traffic Accident Tuesday Morning
- Lubbock judge hands 50-year sentence to woman convicted in 2013 DWI case
- Texas DPS trooper seizes over 47 pounds of marijuana in I-40 stop
- Condemned killers in 2 Fort Worth murder cases lose appeals
- Explosion at cement plant in San Antonio burns 3
- Titus Co. law officers arrest 3 suspects, a fourth being sought in kidnapping and murder case
- Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Daycare Owner In Benadryl Death
- 2nd Pearland toddler dies after found unresponsive in bathtub
- CPS takes custody of sibling of twin girls who died after found in bathtub
Political and other Texas news for 2/24/2015
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