- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- George P. Bush and Land Office cancels DRT contract to run Alamo, the facility that group saved and well ran for 110 years! – the pro-gov’t elites have been moving toward this for years. Sickening. Jerry Patterson, G.P. Bush – you are both, in your own ways, traitors to Texas and to limited government. Your ideas that gov’t can better manager the Alamo than can the dedicated ladies of the DRT is pure big-gov’t bullsh*t.
- Dan Patrick’s Brilliant Plan To Shrink Government
- House’s emerging budget differs from Senate’s in three big ways – House looks more Democrat-friendly, Senate more taxpayer and law-and-order friendly.
- House Budget Sets Up Transportation Funding Debate
- House Appropriations Committee approves primary-care physician rate increase
- Next Step in Eminent Domain Reform: SB 474 – Ensuring Adequate Compensation
- Pre-K Bill Most Like Abbott’s ‘Vision’ Taking Lead in Texas House
- Senators Share Concerns About A-F Grades for Schools
- Protect Children from Drastic Removal from Loving Homes – SB414
- Texas legislative committee discusses Candy’s Law
- Gun Control, Anti-Constitution Activists Fight to be Heard at Capitol
- Bill restricting rights of citizens to videotape police introduced in Texas House – Villalba should be ashamed but I doubt he’s smart enough to understand why.
- Legislature poised to tackle $1 billion in delayed maintenance
- State buildings in Austin needing repairs
- Senate committee passes new DPS fingerprint restriction – good bill, Villalba could learn from these guys.
- Disability advocates keep close watch on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
- Benjamin Powell and Audrey Redford: Lawmakers should be embracing pot legalization, not fighting it
- Rep. Naishtat files Marlise’s Law to make some abortions easier, more
- Competing Bills Filed Over End-of-Life Care for Pregnant Women
- Rep. Guera lays out HB255 to help some pharmacists
- If Texas ditches time changes, should it forever fall back or spring forward?
- Peña Launches “Texas Heritage Revival” Campaign
- Urban-drilling bills called a ‘scorched earth’ approach to regulation
- Analysis: When Local Control is Remote
- Senator Huffines Files “Liberty From Traffic Enforcement Cameras” Bill
- Texas lawmakers consider whether to give state power to block some city ordinances
- Lawyer: Proposed bill could end Austin’s ‘no kill’ status VIDEO
- Rep. Isaac Jumping Into Hays County Water Fight
- Dinosaur Media Lobbies For Government Money
- Hall Monitor on Duty
- Geren Says House “Not a College Dormitory”
- A Conversation With Price and Rawlings VIDEO
- ‘Two Steps – One Sticker’ Stumbles on to the dance floor of Texas Windshields
- Garcia: Pay differential means sheriff’s deputies will flock to DPS
- Ratcliffe calls DPS chief McCraw “the terror whisperer”
- Feds ask for stay in judge’s ruling delaying Obama’s immigration order
- Feds Ask Appeals Court to Let Immigration Plan Proceed
- A.G. Paxton: The President Must Respect the Rule of Law
- Attorney General Paxton: We Will Continue to Oppose the President’s Lawlessness
- Randall Wayne Mays scheduled for execution
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Former Governor Rick Perry Joins Right on Crime Campaign
- In New Hampshire, Perry Cautions Against Rushing to War
- Perry touts record of compromise, but Iran is an exception
- HD60 planned candidate, Mike Lang of Granbury, to speak in Eastland Co.
- ‘Crony capitalism’ is the real culprit
- Rand Paul Hires Another Cruz Alum
- Benjamin Powell and Audrey Redford: Lawmakers should be embracing pot legalization, not fighting it
- Cruz the Politician Champions the Death Penalty. Cruz the Private Lawyer Did Something Else.
- Left is fascinated by Ted Cruz speech which doesn’t draw applause – he went to a somewhat hostile audience, that takes more guts and leadership than always stacking the audience with friendlies.
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz: Obama Administration Cannot Defend A Deal That Will Lead To Iran Acquiring Nuclear Weapons
- Lamar Smith’s new frontiers: On the science of dyslexia and a mission to Mars
- Battle continues over abortion provision in Cornyn-authored trafficking bill
- Anti-abortion provision threatens to derail Cornyn bill to curb human trafficking
- Sen. Ted Cruz Gives Opening Remarks at NASA Budget Hearing VIDEO, more, more
- That Bad Voting-Rights Bill Is Still Around—And Still Bad
- Rep. Olson Applauds Victory on Overreaching Ammunition Ban
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Houston Ship Channel reopens after collision
- Pilots fly into Air Tractor to have systems checked out
- Scripps, Journal Communications receive shareholder approvals for mergers, spinoffs
- Muleshoe corn flour mill cited for 33 serious violations before explosion
- TTU researchers discover antibiotic resistance in West Texas feedlots
- West Texas Landowners Take on Local Utility Companies
- Gas prices expected to hold steady into spring break, experts say
- American Airlines chief pilot is going back to the cockpit
- American Airlines pilots: We don’t like the new uniforms
- Photos of third American Airlines Boeing 787 at Victorville
- Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M to open in Denton
- Crow Holdings paying $140 million to gain sole ownership of Dallas Market Center
- Mark Cuban: Why this tech bubble is worse than the tech bubble of 2000
- Developers rush to build nearly 1,700 apartments at Richardson’s CityLine project
- Steelworkers, Shell reach tentative deal to end refinery strikes
- Ex-strippers awarded $250,000 in lawsuit against Tiffany’s Cabaret
- Odam: Qui partners for exclusive and intimate restaurant in new Austin hotel
- —————Statewide general——————
- Ex-Howard Co. tax office clerk faces theft, tampering charges
- McLennan Co. Deputy Constable Snared In Online Sting Fired
- Filings against judge, prosecutor under review
- Houston Ship Channel reopens after collision
- DPS Trooper Apprehends Subject wanted in North Carolina Bank Robbery
- ‘Lone Ranger Bandit’ Bank Robber Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison
- Police: Woman Stabbed Child in Eye with Shish Kabob Stick
- American Sniper Murderer Eddie Ray Routh Transported Out of Abilene to Richmond
- Dallas Cowboy RB DeMarco Murray Signs With the Philadelphia Eagles
- Odessa Police officer was stabbed in the back
- Officials Investigating HAZMAT Situation in Ector County
- Midland Woman Turned Away By Doctors Because Of Her Age – no, it’s because gov’t run or paid medicine sucks
- OSHA Officials Investigating Upton County Oilfield Explosion
- Man’s body found in fireplace of San Antonio home
- Houston metro area among the nation’s most diverse
- Affidavit: Couple beat, choked boy ‘for getting red mark’ in folder
- North Texas man’s huge catch not an official record because he released it
- Cherokee Co. deputy shoots at suspect attempting to run him over
- Additional arrests made in home invasion that left robber dead, resident injured VIDEO
- Amarillo police searching for man wanted in home invasion robbery
- Harris Co. DA’s office dismisses murder charge in Iranian student killing
Political and other Texas news for 3/12/2015
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