- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Fireworks Erupt Between Texas House and Senate Over Tax Reform
- House’s proposed sales tax cut a Texas first – but it’s the opposite of the direction we need to go. We need to move more of the tax burden to a broad consumption tax and away from horrible things like property taxes where you never own your property but merely rent it from government.
- Fights That Taxpayers Win
- House Tax Plan Gives Big Steel a Seat at the Table
- Analysis: Something More Conservative Than Tax Cuts?
- A Liberal’s Conversation With RINO Kevin Eltife VIDEO
- Panic From The Spenders
- Bettencourt Softens Bill to Limit Property Tax Growth
- TML Distorts Reform to Defend Its Power
- Rep. Shaheen files major plank of Gov. Abbott’s government reform agenda
- Abbott-backed bills target school district spending on lobbyists
- Senate passes bill to allow dying patients ‘right to try’ untested drugs
- Senate Increases Public Integrity
- Abbott’s Emergency Item: Border Security Moving Slowly in Texas Senate
- Garcia: Your Brain on the Border
- Raging Ratcliffe: Is DPS Inflating Its Border Success?
- House Passes Border Prosecution Unit Bill
- Texas Young Republicans support decriminalizing marijuana
- Tim Tebow Bill
- Senate Bill Targeting Bullet Train Project Advances
- Texas Lawmakers to Consider Police Body Cameras
- Background Checks Drive Uber Debate
- San Marcos River tubers, kayakers could pay new fee under proposed state law
- Texas House passes pre-K bill, leaves possibility for more money, more
- Tea Party Lawmakers Fight Modest Increase to Pre-K Funding – see how it gets played? The bill was not a increase in Pre-K funding but a “quality” program that gets teachers and schools tied-up with a D.C.-based outfit that owns the certification process, etc. Why pay them to do what we can do ourselves?
- Grand Jury Goes Rogue on Attorney General Ken Paxton
- DPS Rescues At-Risk, Endangered Children in 2014
- Kent William Sprouse scheduled for execution at 6pm today
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- HD124: Governor Abbott Issues Special Election Call For HD-124 Runoff
- Governor Abbott Addresses Houston Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce
- Questionnaire reveals Texas havens for Republicans, Democrats
- D.C. outsider Ted Cruz looks inside the Beltway for campaign cash
- Experts: Perry Camp Put Russian Ship in Web Video – oops
- In Accepting Bitcoin, Rand Paul Raises Money and Questions
- Rand Paul Exposes Democrat Anti-Woman, Anti-Choice Death Culture
- Rand Paul leads Hillary in Iowa polling
- Julian Castro Is in VP Training Camp – as far Left and radical as Obama
- Clint Black’s brother bails before Bandera mayoral-race lawsuit trial
- Man Up, Campus Christians—Your Timidity Feeds the PC Beast
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Sen. Cruz: Honoring Courage and Bravery in the Defense of Freedom at Fort Hood VIDEO
- Sen. Cruz Joins Amicus Brief Supporting the Right of States to Define Marriage, more
- Senator Cornyn in Texas
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Warren Buffett: a wannabe Texan?
- The biggest store in Texas: Nebraska Furniture Mart
- Southwest Airlines’ traffic rose 6.7 percent in March
- Momentum Texas launches crowdfunding campaign to help veteran entrepreneurs VIDEO
- Chuck E. Cheese’s aims to grow sales by pleasing grown-ups’ palates
- Hinojosa: Silicon Valley will be connecting with the Rio Grande Valley
- Perryman: Small Business Optimism
- Reynosa maquila leader: We need another bridge built in upper RGV
- First Financial Bank, N.A. To Acquire 4Trust Mortgage, Inc.
- The oil industry’s $26 billion life raft
- 2 Austin hotels hit by data breach
- $1.2 billion General Motors plant expansion possible for Arlington
- —————Statewide general——————
- Lubbock police sergeant arrested, resigns
- State commission suspends Williamson Co. Court at Law Judge Tim Wright
- Grand jury probes Thirteenth Court of Appeals Chief Justice Rogelio Valdez
- Pharr employee arrested on felony theft charges
- DA: Chief, assistant told firemen, victim not to talk about sex assault at Ellis County fire station
- Waco Police Officer Injured While Investigating Hit-And-Run
- Three Texans added to growing list of sick from Blue Bell listeria outbreak
- Widow Of Slain Central Texas Man Remains Jailed
- Katy Man Faces Jail at High Noon: Refuses to Surrender Facebook Password to Bankruptcy Judge VIDEO
- Tropical Storm Force Winds Hit Lubbock and the South Plains
- Power Outage Empties Mall of Abilene and Surrounding Areas
- Brewster County Rancher Charged With Harboring Illegal Immigrants
- Private plane cannot extend landing gear, makes ‘masterful’ emergency landing at Lubbock airport
- 400-pound alligator moved from Texas pond where children swim
- Man arrested after Amarillo police find 150+ stolen IDs during stop
- San Antonio chase ends in man’s death in shootout with police
- Two teens struck by trains, one fatally, in South Central Texas Wednesday
- SAPD searches for man who blindfolded, tied child to TV on West Side
- Affidavit: Torch-wielding ex-girlfriend causes thousands in damage in Olmos Park
- Woman arrested after 35 bogus calls to 911 from Texas motel
- Dozens arrested in Houston area in crackdown on gang-related crime
- Ex-software exec who drugged, assaulted female employee gets 10 years in federal prison
- EPA wraps up collecting fish from Superfund reservoir in Donna
- Police: 51-year-old man carried on relationship with girl after finding out she was 16
- Documentary highlights struggle of East Austin students – it’s a Liberal’s Mecca run by the Left so how can there be problems?
Political and other Texas news for 4/9/2015
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