- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Bonnen favors ending tax-cut impasse with one big reduction in business taxes
- Bonnen: I’d Scrap Sales Tax Cut for Larger Business Tax Cut
- Key House lawmaker open to tax cut accord
- Bonnen’s False Accusations
- Nelson: Senate sticking with property tax cuts, looking for ways to preserve them
- Rainy Day Fund Could Be Invested More Aggressively
- At Capitol, rainy day fund investment bill wins final passage
- House tentatively approves revamping Texas Ethics Commission – horrible stuff, giving power to an inept Kangaroo court
- House Shoots Down Increased Financial Disclosures For Themselves
- Senate Bill Would Ban Abortion Coverage in Private Insurance Plans – no, it removes the coverage from base must-cover rules and makes it an add-on one must purchase.
- Texas legislators prepare obstacles for gay marriage
- Bill to lend preventative hand to military families, veterans passes Texas House
- HB1993 would allow parents to sign electronic report cards
- Abbott signs bill exempting thousands of high school seniors from graduation exams
- House tentatively votes to give Dallas ISD option of holding November trustee elections
- Home School Students Score in Texas Senate
- Rep. Flynn: Texas ISD’s Owe Staggering $111.5 Billion in Debt
- Plan to Reform School Finance System on Life Support
- Editorial: Legislators doing the right things for the right reasons
- Road appears to run out on effort to create statewide rules for Uber, Lyft
- Effort to overhaul Texas’ grand jury selection process falters in House
- House tentatively approves criminalizing voyeurism
- House moves forward on new e-cigarette regulations – ridiculous. So we don’t want folk to smoke tobacco but are now going to make it much harder to use this simple, harmless to others system by banning them on school property and fines for use in other places?
- Bill to allow public companies to sell hard alcohol dies
- Senate OKs keeping secret death penalty drug suppliers
- House Gives Tentative OK to Visitation Rights for Inmates
- Bill would create county payment system for colonia electricity
- Public property insurance agency TWIA pays $178 million in extra commissions
- Texas Windstorm Insurance Association continues to grow despite reform efforts
- Hidalgo County courthouse ‘user fee’ bill set for vote in Texas House
- Lawmakers Reinforce State Sovereignty
- Old-line press continues to belittle activists who do the real work
- Grieder: Filming officials an opportunity for personal growth
- How an Empower Texans video and AgendaWise blog foreshadowed American Phoenix
- Group Files Complaint Over Illegal Speed Camera Program in Smith Co. (Tyler)
- Texas Files Multi-State Amicus Brief in Fifth Circuit Defending Court’s Injunction Against Executive Amnesty
- Abbott Appoints Margo To Cancer Prevention And Research Institute Of Texas Oversight Committee
- Abbott Appoints Madrid To Commission On State Emergency Communication
- Abbott Names Chair And Appoints Three To Texas Historical Commission
- Abbott Appoints Hanson To State Cemetery Committee
- Governor Abbott Declares State Of Disaster In Texas Counties
- Attorney General Paxton Warns Texans of Price Gouging in Wake of Disaster
- DPS Remembers Fallen Officers at Memorial Service
- Derrick Dewayne Charles scheduled for execution
- Poll: Almost half of voters worried military exercises could exert control over states
- Abbott signs SB835, fraudulent or fictitious military record penalties
- UT chancellor must turn over records to regent, AG says
- Paxton: UT Can’t Block Regents’ Requests for Information
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Rick Perry: We Must ‘Eliminate’ ISIS, the Taliban and Boko Haram
- Editorial: Ted Cruz not running for president of Cuba
- ‘Taking the high road’: Ted Cruz responds to Mark Halperin’s so-called ‘apology’
- Cruz roundup: Fundraising in the Valley, first primary debate set
- Cornyn rallies support for fast track with pivotal vote looming
- Powerful politicos, grandchildren bid farewell to Jim Wright
- Former Lubbock Woman Files Request for Restraining Order Against Senator Perry, more – issue will be discussed with a Perry spokesman on Pratt on Texas at 5:35pm. Your host also has knowledge of this person making allegations.
- Former Lubbock political activist’s odd allegation against Sen. Charles Perry
- Huffines will not rule out running against Congressman Pete Sessions
- Judge Wolff endorses Van de Putte for San Antonio mayor
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Ted Poe: Stop Warrantless Searches on Americans
- Neugebauer on National Security and Jade Helm AUDIO
- Neugebauer Talks Russia, China and Oil Prices AUDIO
- Cornyn, Cruz, Goodlatte, Smith File Brief on President’s Unconstitutional Immigration Actions
- Trade Deal Backed by Cornyn, Cruz is Blocked in U.S. Senate
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Work picking-up on SpaceX’s Texas launch facility
- Road appears to run out on effort to create statewide rules for Uber, Lyft
- Texas crop, weather: Rains continued to delay fieldwork, hay harvesting
- There’ll be no quick decision in the Southwest Airlines-Delta dispute over Dallas Love Field gates
- Delphi Group sells Deep Ellum commercial and residential building
- J.C. Penney has designs on $2B turnaround from ill-fitting makeover
- Glassdoor lists top 10 in-demand jobs in the Dallas area
- D-FW home prices rise 10.1 percent in first quarter, according to Realtors
- Blue Bell Facilities Won’t Reopen for ‘Several Months’
- —————Statewide general——————
- Plane Crash in Eastland County Injures One
- Sick: Galveston stabbing suspect spits own feces at cops
- Friends build an entire community of tiny houses on Llano River
- Police seek ID of dead baby found on Texas interstate
- Lubbock Police Shot Dog When It Was Ordered to Attack Officers
- Marfa Family Still Searching For Justice After Officials Pronounce Death a Suicide VIDEO
- Odessa Mother Arrested For Strangling Son
- Controversial San Antonio boxing legend Tony Ayala Jr. found dead at gym
- Amber Alert for missing Houston infant
- Workers evacuated as smoke pours from downtown Houston building
- Houston ISD school bus crash snarls traffic in Bellair
- Lawsuit involving passengers’ sex toy goes to federal trial
- Midland police: Man steals iPhone, takes selfie that shows up on victim’s new phone
- Vietnam veteran who helped create Texas Capitol monument dies
- — Flooding / Weather stories —
- Governor Abbott Declares State Of Disaster In Clay, Montague, Bosque, Denton, Eastland, Gaines, and Van Zandt Counties.
- Attorney General Paxton Warns Texans of Price Gouging in Wake of Disaster
- Governor Abbott Receives Briefing On State Of Disaster
- Quick Response from Texas National Guard Saves Lives
- TxDOT Prepares to Repair Damaged Roads in Montague Co.
- Storms Demolish Everything a Couple Owned Near Burkburnett VIDEO
- Rising Waters Flood Lake Amon Carter Homes VIDEO
- Dog Found Safe in Deceased Owner’s Arms After Van Tornado
- Victim Killed After Eastland County Tornado Identified
- Cleanup continues after Van tornado; 2 killed
- Behind the Camera: Inside a Storm Chasing Unit
- Red Cross team counts 41 homes damaged by Seagraves flooding
- Days-long deluge takes D-FW from drought-stricken to drenched
- Severe storms dump flooding rains across Starr, Hidalgo counties
Political and other Texas news for 5/12/2015
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