- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Kel Seliger, Chris Turner Receive Anti-Taxpayer Award
- Pratt: Senate tax cut plan superior to that from the House AUDIO
- Analysis: Big Money, Little Ideas in Legislature
- Business tax cuts in the bag but other relief uncertain
- House tentatively OKs a higher return on some rainy-day dollars
- Villabla drops bill to make it illegal to film near police – Villalba is a clumsy, arrogant RINO.
- Senate committee approves bill that would put a stop to red-light cameras
- Senate votes to strip private toll road company of eminent domain powers
- Wear: TxDOT in the money this session, but how deep remains unclear
- Senate argues insurance reform bill as push to limit lawsuit filing grows
- Grusendorf: Too many questions looming for the House to make a run at fixing school finance
- Senate Shapes Plan for Private School Scholarships
- Bill requiring heart screenings for Texas student athletes advances
- House Passes Higher Education Construction Bill
- GOP divided on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants
- Cities concerned about state urban-drilling bill – they imagine themselves with powers they’ve never had
- New road rules in Texas? Watch out for bicyclists
- Bill would give fans a better chance to buy tickets to hot events in Texas – bad bill, bad expansion of gov’t.
- Tesla Pokes Its Nose Into the Auto Dealers’ Tent
- Glenn Beck: End Texas’ Tesla tyranny
- Groups take aim at Texas deer breeding operations, more
- Big Bucks Deer Hunting and The Bad Boys
- Facing Blowback, Ethics Bill Could Lose Punch
- Legislator takes aim at automated union dues – very good
- Is it a lost cause in Austin or can these bills be saved?
- Editorial: A rare chance for legislative answers to the West blast
- 8 Texas soldiers voted via email; program called ‘success’
- Comptroller Glenn Hegar Marks 100 Days In Office With Taxpayer Bill Of Rights, more
- Despite Rocky Start, Agriculture Chief Defends Record
- Ag Commission Has Hand in Texas Lotto VIDEO
- Attorney General Paxton: The Federal Government Can’t Re-Write the Law
- Federal Court Rejects Significant Portions of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules
- Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to no longer give ringside seats to lawmakers
- Now That I’m 17 – The Court Can’t Deal with Laws I Broke before My Birthday!
- Advisory: Manuel Garza scheduled for execution
- Austin rodeo fundraising a focus in 21CT criminal probe
- Did DPS spy on Mexico? Internal documents claim it did – good.
- Texas Medical Board overwhelmingly adopts new telemedicine rules
- 13th Court of Appeals chief justice keeps records requests at bay
- TDHCA memo on low-income eligibility results in apology
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Four Reasons Why Texas Matters for Hillary Clinton
- Left in Texas: We’re Back! …And We Brought Hillary Clinton
- Cruz, Perry Take Two Approaches to Targeting Clinton
- Perry: 2016 Will Be “Show-Me-Don’t-Tell-Me Election”
- Cruz to NRA: Come and Take It!
- Dinner with Ted and Heidi Cruz? That will cost $500K
- The mystery moneymen behind Ted Cruz’s super-PACs
- Jeb Bush faces family ties that bind
- TX15: Former Mayor, Republican, to Challenge Hinojosa for Congress
- Homosexual Activists Demand Christian Churches Be Shut Down for Opposing Same-Sex Marriage, more, more – told you.
- Texas Taxpayers Foot Bill for 2nd Defense Lawyer in Dallas Co. Commissioner’s Corruption Trial
- Tarrant Regional Regional Water District board race brings in big money from big names
- Are People Getting More Health Care Because of ObamaCare?
- Olympic athletes’ health plan fails to meet Affordable Care Act rules
- GOP, Tea Party groups start to mobilize against Valley healthcare [taxing] districts
- Prayer causes stir in Woodlands bond election
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Cruz: President Obama is leaving the Cuban people imprisoned in the past
- The News with Sen. Cruz – April 12, 2015
- Heilemann: 42% of Republicans Would Never Vote for Jeb Bush
- Cuellar: U.S. needs to make greater investment in Central America
- Texas judge gets past U.S. Senate logjam, Senate fills South Texas judgeship; first confirmation since GOP takeover
- In letter to Texas lawmakers, Texas Association of Business supports Ex-Im Bank – yet another TAB join with the big-gov’t crony crowd!
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Eagle Ford Shale Rig Count Drops to 137
- Gas Prices for the week of April 13, 2015
- Mills: Consumers Enjoy Lower Prices Because Of Increased Production
- Oil firms may have to cut deeper than $126B, report says
- Houston is not headed for a repeat of the 1980s
- KRGV-TV Sues City fo Weslaco over Favortism with Public Information
- Big Country wheat crops could be facing rust disease
- Blue Bell expected to bounce back from recall crisis, but it will cost them
- Geneva Boren continuing inspirational career – great story
- Tesla Pokes Its Nose Into the Auto Dealers’ Tent
- Deer breeding can be an intensive operation
- Livestrong’s next chapter: Life after Lance
- SpaceX attempt to make history by recovering a spent rocket scrubbed to to weather
- Allen ready to kick off $85 million convention center and hotel complex
- Some American Airlines’ flight attendants disagree with their union leader on the Nicole Kidman-Etihad Airways brouhaha
- Guess how many people made it through a nearly six-hour Virgin America film in Dallas? VIDEO
- Airline Quality Rating report shows U.S. carriers’ performance worsened in 2014
- Virgin America ranked No. 1 in overall performance among U.S. airlines in 2014, Southwest was No. 6 and American was No. 7
- American Airlines cuts first-quarter revenue projection
- Dallas-based Builders FirstSource more than tripling revenues with purchase
- Texas oyster competitors spar over Galveston Bay reef lease
- Developer announces new tenants for $100 million Pharr Town Center
- Pharr, INDEX, agree to work together in readiness for Kia auto plant traffic
- New gas-fired power plant coming to Edinburg
- —————Statewide general——————
- Former state judge Angus McGinty pleaded guilty to theft of honest services
- Cameron Co. Cop Allegedly Transporting Illegal Aliens to Pay Off Gambling Debt
- Branch ISD child care worker arrested on illegal restraint charges
- Texan Jordan Spieth dominates a Masters that shows golf in good hands
- Inside PGA pro Jordan Spieth’s $2.2 million Dallas mansion
- Gas well breech during fracking by inside City of Arlington
- Police identified Laredo boy who died after ingesting cleaning product
- Prank Call Leads to Texas SWAT Team Response in Port Neches
- ‘Austin City Limits’ creator Bill Arhos dies; turned PBS show into mecca for music hit makers, more
- Family of Murdered Victim Say Released Death Row Inmate No Innocent Victim
- Good Samaritan Among 5 Killed, 12 Injured in I-30 Crash
- Motorists snarled I-20 DFW traffic as they left cars Friday to grab cash
- Downtown Abilene was without Power for Over an Hour After Three Overnight Explosions
- Storms lead to street flooding in parts of North Texas
- Lightning to Blame For Glasscock County Tank Battery Fire
- Feds Celebrate ‘Major Victory’ in Murder, Drug Ring, Firearms Case VIDEO
- Petersburg woman who stole $400,000 from grain company sentenced
- Plane gets stuck on runway at Bush IAH
- Lubbock ranks top 10 in severe weather property damage claims
- 7 hurt in Plano attack by 2 dogs, police kill 1 canine
- Mighty Rio Grande now a trickle under siege – this river has always been flood or trickle.
- Woodlands man ordered to pay $7.4 million for investment scam
- Texas man sentenced to 4 years probation for trafficking in dead hummingbirds
- Victim shot to death at SW Houston gas station
- 2 Houston ISD school buses collide in northeast Houston
Political and other Texas news for 4/13/2015
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