- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- $4.5 Billion Tax Cut Measures Headed to Full Senate
- Senate panel advances plan that would give average homeowner a $206 tax break in 2016, $234 in 2017
- Texas Senate budget writers kick out billions in tax cuts
- Senate panel leaves sanctuary cities bill pending
- Texas lawmakers revive bill to ban sanctuary cities
- Rodríguez: ‘Show us your Papers’ bill is unnecessary distraction from real state business – Rodriguez demonstrates that he is a liar by calling the bill a “show us your papers” bill as it does not do any such thing.
- Texas Worker Misclassification Bill Could Decrease Illegal Immigration
- Pratt: Texas’ border security spending will show press inconsistency
- Human trafficking bill is 1st passed by House this session
- House OKs bill to boost prosecution of sex trafficking
- Texas Senate One Step Closer to Passing Open Carry (for CHL holders)
- Abbott Ready to Sign Texas Open Carry Bill
- Texas Senate votes in favor of bill to allow open carry of handguns
- Senate open carry debate lacked firepower
- Senate debate on ‘campus carry’ bill to be postponed at least a day
- Campus carry a near lock to pass
- House Committee Takes Up Open Carry, Campus Carry Bills
- Florida following Texas on campus carry
- Editorial: Our right to photograph police
- Senate passes bill to prohibit teens from buying e-cigs
- Senate State Affairs Improves Public Integrity
- Measure to move Texas’ corruption-fighting unit advances
- Senate panel agrees to change corruption investigations
- Ex Post Facto Agency: Texas [un]Ethics Commission
- Double-Dipping Ban Sails Out of Committee
- Straight-party voting bill debated before Texas House committee – leave the choice to the voter, isn’t that sort of the basis of an election anyway?
- Hundreds rally at Capitol for education funds, reforms
- Teachers’ union holds second rally at Capitol
- Bill creating graduation panels passes Texas Senate
- Texas Senate OKs bill easing testing ultimatum for high school seniors
- Deregulating Tuition Slowed Increase, University Leaders Say
- Rep. Burrows files bill calling legislature to study prescription costs
- Metroplex Mayors: Local Hypocrites When Convenient
- Denton Fracking Ban Tees Up Local Control Fight
- Vegas on the Texas coast?
- Will Texas scrap bans on Sunday sales of alcohol and cars?
- 12 controversial Texas laws that courts declared unconstitutional
- Texas’ unusual grand jury system gets new scrutiny – a bit misleading in that most larger counties use the random jury wheel for this now. Some do it differently and I think that is good for many counties.
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Matson To Executive Council Of Physical Therapy And Occupational Therapy Examiners Board
- Governor Abbott Appoints Cobos To The Veterans Land Board
- Texas court halts officers’ killer’s execution
- TxDOT sending out $1.7 million to refund late fees on aged tolls
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Republican Sen. Rand Paul opens Texas base in a liberal bastion
- Rand Paul opens ‘innovative, tech-forward’ operation in Austin
- Perry, Cruz show different styles on the stump
- All bark? Ted Cruz has Morning Joe eating out of his hand
- Texas A&M will bid to host presidential debate
- In Texas, a Focused Jeb Bush Stood Out From the Crowd
- Jeb Admits His Amnesty Toughness Is Just for Show
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Cornyn: Democrat Filibuster of Anti-Trafficking Bill About Politics
- Senate Democrats balk at abortion restrictions in Cornyn sex trafficking bill
- GOP fails to overcome filibuster on Cornyn’s human trafficking bill
- Lubbock banker to speak on behalf of community banks at Congressional hearing
- Brand, Weisberg-Stewart, to testify about border security in D.C. today
- Sen. Cruz Congratulates PM Netanyahu
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Texas no longer led nation in job creation as of January thanks to the impact of low oil prices
- Panhandle-Plains Land Bank distributes $7 million
- Austin chain How Do You Roll? files trademark suit against Pei Wei
- Rural Hospitals, One Of The Cornerstones Of Small Town Life, Face Increasing Pressure
- American Airlines Group shares jump on word that the company will join the S&P 500 index Friday
- J.C. Penney’s CMO Deb Berman leaves
- J.C. Penney hopes to catapult home sales, catalog mailed this week
- Boot camps that teach coding are springing up in Dallas
- Pilots to American Airlines: Try again on new uniforms
- Oil production falling in three big shale plays, EIA says
- Rains leave RGV soil too wet to plant cotton
- Texas crop, weather for March 17, 2015
- —————Statewide general——————
- Former Burnet High School coach pleads guilty to improper relationship charges
- Man dead in Dear Park Walmart parking lot for more than a week
- Second teen gets life term for San Angelo double slaying
- 2 sex offenders on Texas 10 Most Wanted list captured
- DPS Reward Increased to $10,000 For Most Wanted Fugitive
- Woman Bites Police Officer During Arrest in Odessa
- Houston downtown utility tunnel collapse prompts temporary road, rail closure
- McKinney woman hired hitman to kill husband, police say
- Man arrested after posting photo of stolen SUV keys on Facebook
- Man held in Brazoria Co. jail in alleged plot to kill ex-wife
- Man, 73, Fatally Shot Wife, Self: Fort Worth Police
- East Texas woman allegedly shoots son during argument
- Police: Amarillo homeowner shoots at accused burglar
- Cleveland ISD students injured in bus crash on Eastex Freeway
Political and other Texas news for 3/17/2015
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