- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- P+I Day In Senate Finance, Part 2
- Pratt: Texas Senate leads on tax cuts, watch out for RINOs AUDIO
- Texas House panel OKs earning more interest on some state savings
- Analysis: Killing a Tax Without Saving Taxpayers a Dime
- Supplemental Budget Would Cost $433 Million, House Members Learn
- Senate gives final approval to campus carry bill – now what happens in the House?
- Senate gives final approval to campus carry handgun bill
- Texas Senate Takes Step Towards Approving Concealed Campus Carry
- Guns, Ho-Hum – yeah, “ho-hum” until you are facing a life and death situation.
- New Jersey will allow Tesla direct sales, could Texas follow suit?
- Lawmakers Hope to Steer Self-Driving Car Bills to Abbott’s Desk
- Texas lawmakers call for sales-tax holiday for small businesses
- Border security fund fight looms
- Texas House votes 130-11 to approve border security bill
- Security Surge Focused on Less Than 10 Percent of the Border
- Rep. Blanco Votes to Protect El Paso’s Economic Interests, Opposes House Border Bill
- Rep. Burrows Looking To Change The High Cost of Prescriptions VIDEO
- House committee considers bills that would strip private toll company of eminent domain power
- DMN editors push for right of local government to infringe on rights
- Sen. Rodney Ellis calls for DOJ investigation into Texas Truancy Laws – so now making minorities attend school is racist?
- Post-Scandal, Lawmakers Changing Gears on Health Agency
- Contracting Reform Bill Sails Out of Senate Committee
- Bill would allow both same-sex parents on supplemental birth certificates in adoptions – they may both be parents in the sense of rearing the child but they are not both parents in the sense of birth. Another hard cold fact they want to ignore.
- Texas Attorney General Paxton Sues Department of Labor Over FMLA Rule
- Texas attorney general sues feds over same-sex benefits
- Texas AG Sues Obama Department of Labor for Unconstitutional “Spouse” Rule
- Texas public corruption probes should be reformed
- Texas needs more sunshine in state and local government
- Villalba’s bill that would make it illegal to film police should be rejected
- State Bar accuses prosecutor in Willingham triple-murder case of improper conduct – be aware that the State Bar goes after people often and is proven wrong, It is often led by politics.
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Rick Perry: Still the Best Campaigner Around – a very interesting piece
- Battleground Israel Fails Just Like Battleground Texas
- Report: Oil and gas on public lands a ‘blind spot’ in climate fight
- Super PAC Men: How Political Consultants Took a Texas Oilman on a Wild Ride
- Q&A with National Review correspondent & Lubbock-native Kevin Williamson
- Hidalgo County judge hopes more apply for energy assistance – Democrat – want more on welfare instead of celebrating that fewer have the need!
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz and Rep. Bridenstine Introduce American Energy Renaissance Act
- Sen. Cruz: Religious Liberty Rights Should Not End at the Potomac
- Cruz Wants to Upend Laws on Contraception, Gay Rights
- Cruz hearing on ‘amnesty’ to feature Kansas hardliner – Why the scare-quotes around amnesty but not around hardliner? Hardliner is a descriptive subject to opinion just as much as is the amnesty-description. Here, my friends, is an example of how the news is colored daily.
- Cornyn Offers Path Forward for Anti-Trafficking Bill
- Obama Administration sets record for withholding government files
- Gohmert: Carville Accidentally Told the Truth
- Republicans Ask Court To Keep Obama Amnesty Programs Stalled
- Neugebauer Opening Statement at Preserving Consumer Choice and Financial Independence Hearing
- Reps. Veasey, Jackson Lee call on Senate to confirm attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch
- U.S. Rep. Castro Moves Up the Democratic Ranks – of course, he’s a radical Leftist
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Dallas Fed: Texas job growth to slow, Houston to see the biggest impact
- Oil exports would give US leverage, former ambassador says
- Report: Refiners can handle the flood of light U.S. crude
- AAA survey shows gas down 2 cents for Spring Break
- Report: Texas housing more resilient to oil prices
- Southwest follows JetBlue in customer experience survey
- Michaels posts 18% profit increase
- Addison-based MutualMind plays a role in Jimmy Kimmel show at South by Southwest
- App Meerkat takes off at SXSW, but will it fly too high?
- New Jersey will allow Tesla direct sales, could Texas follow suit?
- Brownsville-based ship recycler Esco Martine files Chapter 11
- Baker Hughes’ CEO talked with global conglomerate before Halliburton deal
- Siemens drops as oil price slump hurts profitability, sales
- UT Health Northeast to close Gladewater, Longview clinics
- Rose City (Tyler) becoming attractive to tech developers
- San Antonio farmers market closing in wake of racist public dispute
- Suddenlink to invest millions in Texas for faster Internet speed program
- Sam Wyly Hires Kathleen Sullivan, Fights for Office Staff Allowance in Bankruptcy Court
- —————Statewide general——————
- Roles in RGV immigration bribery case in focus
- Former Wichita Co. assistant DA sentenced to 2 years probation in assault case
- Former Ector County Youth Center Employee Confesses to Having Sex With a Teen Inmate
- Sanger ISD band director facing charges of indecency with a child
- Hardin Co. lawman lied about child porn, pleads guilty
- Ex Kountze councilman pleads guilty in headstone fraud
- Gun used to kill Midland Co. deputy last October was stolen
- Body of man who fell overboard from Carnival ship recovered
- 2 arrested for Big Sandy bank robbery
- Public help sought in East Texas camp fondling case
- Pup goes from zero to hero in Palestine
- Suspicious Package In Vehicle Prompts Killeen Police Response – How can a package be “suspicious”? Horrible grammar. Sort of like those who go around saying they were nauseous (which would be making everyone around them sick) as opposed to the right term of being “nauseated”.
- Kidnapped Central Texas Store Employee In Critical Condition
- Ex-civil rights attorney from San Antonio shot at, arrested after tires flattened at East Side home
- Bexar Co. DA’s office employee injured, wife killed in suspected DWI crash
- San Antonio Police: Man strangles wife at West Side apartment
- Two dead in apparent murder-suicide in Bexar Co.
- Flash flood watch will begin Friday afternoon in San Antonio
- DPS troopers seize over $2M worth of cocaine near Jarrell
- Austin Mayor Steve Adler: ‘White people’ stickers appalling, offensive
- San Antonio farmers market closing in wake of racist public dispute
- 21-year-old woman, spring breaker, falls from SPI hotel balcony, dies VIDEO
- State Fair Announces Theme for 2015 ‘Passport to Texas’
- Concerns Grow Over Large Crack Along Lake Whitney Cliff
- Hungry Intruder Breaks Into Little Italy, Falls Asleep After Eating VIDEO
- Card Reading Device Found at Midland ATM, Police Warning Citizens
- Escaped Randall County inmate found hiding under bed
- Anti-Wimp: Armed mom stops Odessa home invasion
- Houston clerk slaps robber’s gun
- Case of “San Antonio Four” Set to Enter its Final Act
- Child critically injured after car drives off Interstate 27 in Amarillo
- 15-year-old shot multiple times outside southwest Houston apartments
- Deputy, K-9 rescued from flipped patrol car in N. Harris County VIDEO
- Burglar unlocks doors to Best Buy in Sugar Land; takes $200,000 in merchandise VIDEO
- 1 Randall Co. inmate tests positive for tuberculosis
Political and other Texas news for 3/19/2015
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