- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Strengthening the Spending Cap, Delivering On Promises
- Patrick announces legislation to tighten state spending cap
- Dan Patrick’s Inexplicable & Contradictory Budget Proposals
- Franchise Tax in Creighton’s Crosshairs
- Analysis: A Distinctive Push for Business Tax Repeal
- Are Taxes in Texas Not So Bad?
- House committee votes out omnibus border security bill, after tightening up some language
- Far-Reaching Border Security Bill Clears First Hurdle
- Texas House Remembers Man Slain by Illegal Alien
- House budget panel tentatively OKs bonds for campus academic buildings – more debt and issued by those not accountable to voters – very bad idea.
- In Senate hearing, elements of bill limiting regents’ authority questioned
- Senate confirms new regents to UT governing board – bad appointments by Abbott
- UT Regent Approval: Haste at the Expense of Diligence
- Rep. Capriglione Named Chairman Of Investments & Financial Services Subcommittee
- Rep. Landgraf files Down Syndrome Parental Information Act
- New Bill Aims At Tightening Foster Parent Training VIDEO
- State lawmakers discuss series of pre-kindergarten proposals
- Huberty: Money, not value, main barrier to full-day pre-K – bull, the value is terrible
- State representative advocates removal of daylight saving time in Texas
- State Lawmakers Look at Ways to Deal With Sexual Assault on Campus – one step is to allow Campus CHL so the innocent have an effective defense!
- Houston GOP moderate wants online voter registration just as do Dems
- Sen. Ellis’ voting rights bill includes online voter registration
- Grieving Texas dog owners want police to be trained in how not to kill animals
- Senate leaders want to tighten ethics laws on state contracts
- Senators Worry State Contracting is Too Decentralized
- House & Senate honor Phil Collins for Alamo donations
- Phil Collins made an ‘honorary Texan’ by the state legislature
- “Former Fetus” signs displayed, taken down ahead of Planned Parenthood Capitol visit, more
- Rep. Jonathan Stickland signals discord ahead in Texas House after anti-abortion sign removal
- TPPF, Burton Propose the Liberty City
- Rep. Villalba Kills His Religious Freedom Measure Due To TAB Pressure
- Texas students may be able to graduate even after failing end-of-course exams
- Texas House pitches fix for state employee pensions
- Bill would require sprinklers to be installed in residential high-rises
- Bills would criminalize ‘revenge porn’
- Bill that would strike city housing rule raises local control question
- Libels by ‘malicious writers’ trouble Texas senator
- Austin teen fights for more inclusive Civil War holiday – it’s not meant to honor everyone, it is meant to honor Confederate Heroes.
- Circular argument and illogic defines Chronicle story on death penalty lawyer
- Wichita Falls’ drought success inspires Texas water plan
- Gov. Abbott extends drought emergency status for numerous Texas counties
- San Antonio Gang Member’s Execution Set for Tonight
- MyPlates seeks unique Texas tags that could bring bumper crops of cash at auction
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Four file for HD124, seat was held by now Senator Menendez
- Deceit of Imams & Truth About Sharia Law Revealed in Texas
- Spokeswoman Heads to Likely Cruz Campaign
- Perry is Gone, but Travel Costs Still Being Tallied
- Rand Paul’s Austin Office Set to Open Monday
- Mark Cuban: Forgiving $1 trillion in student debt ‘ is the worst thing we can do’
- Martin Frost and Tom Davis on “The Partisan Divide”
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Cornyn to Senate Democrats: Don’t Play Politics At The Expense Of Trafficking Victims
- Senate Democrats Reject GOP Offer to Amend Trafficking Bill – Cornyn, you should learn that Dems, unlike you and other leadership members, are there to fight for their agenda. Grow up.
- Congressman Will Hurd Hears From Locals VIDEO
- Neugebauer Statement on ATF Ammunition Ban
- Newspaper calls Texas congressmen ‘traitors’ for signing Iran letter
- Petition seeks treason charges against 47 GOP senators over Iran letter
- Tom Cotton’s Letter to Iran Gets the Constitution Right
- Three States Would Be Hardest Hit If Supreme Court Upends Health-Law Subsidies
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Texas sales tax collections up 11.7% in March report
- Top 20 City Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary – March 2015, All cities
- Surprise! S&H Green Stamps can still be redeemed
- Houston Economy Stumbles Over Low Oil Prices In February
- Oil field could miss reservoir of new talent
- Uber unable to operate at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport during week of SXSW
- Chevron looks to sell more assets as oil prices fall
- Justice Dale Wainwright Named Managing Partner of Bracewell’s Austin Office
- Waco Dubbed Hottest Real Estate Market In The U.S.
- Austin brothers look to make mark with video app
- Southwest Airlines sees increase in traffic, capacity and load factor in February
- Southwest Airlines gets OK to fly from Houston to Mexico City, Cabo San Lucas
- Plano-based At Home latest retailer to hike minimum wage
- Dallas-area competitors react to Nebraska Furniture Mart’s billion-dollar boast
- —————Statewide general——————
- El Paso police arrest Border Patrol agent on child sex charge
- Hereford High School teacher under investigation
- Study: Only One-Tenth of One Percent of North Texas Fracking Wells Potentially Involved in Earthquakes
- Part of Houston Ship Channel still closed after collision
- Three killed in oil field accident in Upton County
- Three Generations of “Hard-Working Family Men” Killed in Oil Field Explosion
- Water tank explodes at Minsa in Muleshoe, 3 injured
- El Paso police arrest restaurant manager in shooting of 2 brothers at restaurant
- Strippers’ Pay Stubs Entered as Evidence in Tiffany’s Trial
- Texas newlywed charged with shooting husband seven times
- Edinburg nurse charged with forging prescriptions, selling Xanax
- Death of Amarillo prison guard focus of upcoming TV program
- Cedar Park mother charged after toddler found dead has another baby
- Round Rock woman charged with husband’s murder after confessing crime to friend
- Fake home listings a growing problem in Austin
- Irving police respond to report of 3 people shot to death
- Off-duty police officer shoots man outside Fort Worth club
- Police: Man shoots, kills father in Bell County
- Drugs, Cash Found in Home of Corpus Christi Home Invasion Shooting Victim
- Denison Home Invasion Victim: “It’s not right and they need to find these people”
- Frost Bank in Calallen robbed by 3 men
- Austin deacon allegedly groped, masturbated in front of cancer-stricken churchgoer
Political and other Texas news for 3/11/2015
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