- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Senators Seek to Stop Subsidizing Unions
- Union dues bill now headed to full Texas Senate
- Senate passes $211 billion budget stressing tax cuts, roads, border security, more
- Senate and House Budgets Side by Side, more
- Texas House panel taking input on tax cut plan
- Susan Combs on “The Texas Model”
- Disgraced former state rep. Pitts lobbying for strip clubs
- House OKs pension fix
- Democrats Ensure Technicality Halts ‘Open Carry’ For Now
- Democrat Point of Order Sends Texas Open Carry and Fracking Bills Back to Committee – Flashback: Texas pol serves seven terms under alias
- Computer glitch delays open carry in House
- Texas House set to vote on bill banning local fracking bans
- Legislature’s push for gun issues triggered by politics – Ummm, yes, it is a political body and all it does is triggered by politics!
- Texas House endorses plan to earn more interest on rainy day savings
- Senate passes bill to set up commission to review state supported living center
- Senate passes bill to close Austin State Supported Living Center
- Texas House Approves Bill to Require Mandatory EKG Tests for High School Athletes, more – you won’t believe how many false-positives will be reported with all the follow-up scare and expense!
- What does the price of a drink have to do with human trafficking?
- DPS official: A big difference between ‘spying’ and ‘looking into’
- Senate panel backs bill to put a stop to red-light cameras
- Uber, Lyft Back in House Headlights
- The Future of Transportation in Texas [Gov’t spending] VIDEO
- Senate school choice bill’s specifics unveiled
- Bill to let Tesla sell cars direct in Texas may go nowhere
- Tesla Makes Sales Pitch to House Panel
- Lawmakers Look to Gulf to Meet State Water Needs
- Trowbridge: A conservative’s defense of in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
- Little chance of bill to end in-state tuition for illegals reaching Abbott’s desk
- South Texas High School Students Lobby for Change at Capitol
- Senate approves ‘revenge porn’ bill
- 2015 Barbara Jordan Media Awards Winners Announced
- DPS: Operation Drawbridge Helps Detect, Interdict Drug and Human Smuggling on Texas-Mexico Border in 2014
- Landers: Is Texas quashing competition among doctors or upholding safety?
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- San Antonian named treasurer of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign
- Julian Castro: The Second Coming of Obama
- Statewide Texas Tax Day Tea Party Rally Salutes Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
- Texas liberals incorrectly claim Rick Perry “Federally-Indicted”
- Rubio Looks to Texas for Campaign Cash
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Texas Republicans propose lifting oil export ban at hearing
- Sen. Cruz: I Cannot Support the Boehner-Pelosi ‘Doc Fix’ Bill
- Cornyn Offers Another Compromise to End Filibuster of Anti-Trafficking Legislation
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Reports from the oil patch may bring unwelcome news
- A new era for nuclear power?
- Amazon planning new center to employ at least 500 people in southern Dallas
- J.C. Penney has an email oops! Sales are up
- Drones the future of precision agriculture
- Texas crop, weather for April 14, 2015: Cotton plantings a week to 10 days behind
- Cow in the road was not medical malpractice, judge rules
- Bill to let Tesla sell cars direct in Texas may go nowhere
- Energy Future Holdings moves to begin bankruptcy trial in November
- Landers: Is Texas quashing competition among doctors or upholding safety?
- Gonzalez: Wow, Google, SpaceX and Brownsville in the same sentence
- River Walk hotel proposal
- —————Statewide general——————
- Ex-Dallas vice detective sentenced to 18 months in prison for trying to hide relationship with prostitute
- Irving high school teacher arrested again, accused of relationship with second student
- Round Rock ISD coach allegedly sent nude photos to 16-year-old female student
- Drug case linked to Houston PD officer involved Mexican cartel
- Williamson County court-at-law judge pleads not guilty to gun charges
- Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender Arrested In Orange County
- Abilene Resident Captures Eye-Witness Video of Downtown Explosion VIDEO
- Seymour & Wichita Falls gun dealers arrested in Tulsa related to theft
- $2 Million Powerball Ticket Sold in Saint Jo Set to Expire VIDEO
- Hutto man accused of trying to run over magazine salesman
- Odessa Man Arrested For Pointing, Shooting BB Gun at Children
- Matriarch of Teenage Prostitution and Human Trafficking Conspiracy on Trial in Texas
- Police say pastors at Balch Springs church starved 2-year-old boy because they thought he was possessed by demon
- Police officer kills suspect in north Houston
- Houston police officer fatally shoots man believed to be armed with gun
- UT student: Whatburger denied me entry for wearing women’s clothes – fine, then shop elsewhere. Hardly just women’s clothes, it was wearing highly inappropriate lingerie in public
- Body Of Man Who Died While Trying To Snag Boat Recovered
- Police Chase Ends When Car Overturns In East Waco Creek; Two Arrested
- Woman Left Unconscious In Harker Heights Club’s Parking Lot After Attack
Political and other Texas news for 4/14/2015
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