- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Texas House advances cut in property taxes, more
- Senate votes to trim business franchise tax rate, more
- House tax writer issues warning as chamber relents on property-tax relief
- House boosts price tag of tax relief package by $400 million
- Pratt: Texas tax-cut deal struck, could have been better AUDIO
- Did the House Get Rolled on the Budget?
- House, Senate Leaders Confirm Transportation Funding Deal
- Pickett: Deal done on legislation using sales taxes for highways
- Lawmakers reach deal to give Texas roads $3B annual boost
- Will Texas House’s spending limit fly? – it’s terrible stuff
- Analysis: A Short List With Some Explosive Issues
- House Republicans Plan Vote to Move Up Controversial Bills
- House Dems slow down pace to block bills ahead of midnight deadline
- Abortion, campus carry, gay fostering in House Dems’ sights: Can they “chub” 12 hours?
- Dead bills frustrate advocacy groups; lawmakers say it’s part of the process
- With key deadline looming, House set to debate ‘campus carry’ proposal
- House to Take Up Campus Carry Ahead of Key Deadline – “If you’re in a heated debate with somebody in the middle of a classroom, and you don’t know whether or not that individual is carrying, how does that inhibit the interaction between students and faculty?” McRaven asked at a Texas Tribune event in February. That is the status quo, how it is now. There is nothing effectively stopping someone from having a concealed weapon now if that person is unconcerned with the law which such a person would be if willing to use a weapon in a heated argument in class. But those who follow the law are deterred from having a weapon to use for self-defense if the lawless were to do what McRaven wants us to infer would happen.
- House is scheduled to debate major ethics bill Tuesday
- Ethics overhaul bill at risk as deadline nears – the House version is terible!
- Rep. Jonathan Stickland releases recording of DPS interview AUDIO
- Breitbart Texas Will Not Publish Lawmaker Videos (at this time)
- E-Verify Bill One Step Closer to Abbott’s Desk
- House tentatively approves funding for police body cameras
- Bill to preserve in-person visitations in most county jails heads to Gov. Abbott, more
- Perry amendment to accident-bill [HB2633] would redact open record information, more
- Accident Secrecy Provision Likely to be Stripped, Author Says
- Texas House OKs changes to how grand juries are selected
- Diversity requirement new fight in grand-jury bill
- Texas Bill [SB 1876] Governing Judges Raises Questions by Judge over Separation of Powers
- House OKs taking 17-year-olds from adult justice system
- Senate votes to toughen parental consent bypass for abortion, more
- Senate drops ID requirement from abortion bill
- House Republicans try to remove abortion coverage from insurance plans before midnight deadline
- Senate Intergovernmental Relations re-votes on anti-homosexual marriage language
- Decriminalizing truancy hung up on House concurrence with 70 pages of Senate amendments
- Another Domino Falls for Anti-Fossil Fuel Crusaders
- House opts not to cut education benefits for families of veterans
- Lawmakers set to negotiate Hazlewood bill
- Speaker Straus statement on Hazlewood legislation
- Reps. Blanco and Farias Fight to Preserve Hazlewood and Protect Our Promise to Veterans
- Rep. Galindo Forces Hazlewood Negotiation
- Dallas lawmakers leave water measure out to dry
- Senate votes to move investigation of state officials to Texas Rangers
- Texas schools would be rated A to F under bill OK’d by Senate
- Senate approves bill to require DART and others to videotape board meetings
- Allowing state leaders to live away from Austin faces hurdle, more
- Amendment: Homosexuals could be denied as foster or adoptive parents
- Bill to sort care by immigration status to die in Senate
- Senate approves bill known as Colton’s Law
- Therapy industry cries foul over Medicaid rate reductions
- State cracking down on strip club tax
- Windstorm insurance bill passes Texas House
- Advocates Fret Disaster Bill Won’t Make Cut in House
- Proposed ban on powdered-alcohol stalls in House
- Senate: Let Texas establish its own Fort Knox
- Alamo preservation bill on the way to Gov. Greg Abbott
- ‘John Wayne Day’ in Texas honors actor’s 108 birthday
- Supreme Court to hear redistricting Texas case seeking to clarify one-person-one-vote
- Comptroller Hegar Encourages Families to Start Saving for Cost of Higher Education on “529 College Savings Day”
- TEA releases preliminary statewide STAAR® grades 3-8 passing rates – terrible passing rates
- Texas business group, NFIB-Texas, slams EPA water grab
- Federal appeals court deals blow to President Obama’s amnesty
- Governor Abbott Statement On Executive Action Ruling
- Abbott: Texas prevailed in immigration ruling
- AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Denies Obama Administration’s Request to Implement Illegal Amnesty
- More Than 70% of Texas is Now Officially Free of Drought
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Walker emerges from Southern confab as GOP front-runner, Cruz & Paul at top, Perry not
- Rick Perry on why he lost in 2012: ‘I wasn’t healthy’
- Former Texas Gov. Perry Prepares To Announce Presidential Bid AUDIO
- Navarrette: Why the Clinton-Stephanopoulos connection matters
- Julian Castro just basically tried out to be Hillary Clinton’s vice president
- Suspicion of US government reaches a new level in Texas
- Chuck Norris: Media misquoted my Jade Helm fears
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Texas Border Congressman Takes More Heat for Foreign Gov’t Paid Travel
- Obama confers with Gov. Abbott about Texas floods, promises quick federal aid
- Abbott and Obama: chums on disaster, adversaries on immigration
- Senator Cruz to join Gov. Abbott at flood briefing in Houston
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Dallas Fed: Texas manufacturing declines again in May
- Texas Comptroller’s Fiscal Notes May Issue Now Available
- Case-Shiller: Dallas home price gains grew in March
- New Book Tells the Story of Happy State Bank
- NTS Communications to make announcement Wed. about its future
- Exxon, Hunt among companies approved to bid on Mexican oil leases
- Dallas startup gets a boost by securing license with UT Southwestern
- Company expanding produce business in Pharr
- Texas Central Railway Raises Concerns on Use of Eminent Domain
- Plano-based Pizza Hut gives artificial ingredients the boot
- CPS Energy, contractors moving closer to to new energy goal
- Houston’s PennTex officially goes public
- Exclusive: Energy company CEO steps down
- Troubled Plano driller offers $1M in securities while creditors loom
- Houston energy co. lands another funding boost from New York PE firm
- Coca-Cola, Texas Motor Speedway parent extend partnership through 2020
- Dave & Busters reports estimated $35M profit in Q1
- Dallas’ Gaedeke Group to start new office building near Toyota’s campus
- D/FW Airport moves its headquarters to Euless
- —————Statewide general——————
- Former School Officials in San Angelo ISD & Grape Creek ISD Arrested for Child Related Crimes
- Austin police officer arrested for DWI
- Portland attorney not indicted in shooting
- Amber Alert: 9-Year-Old Missing, Police Issue Warrant for Uncle
- Officials respond to five-hour standoff in Dimmitt
- Gas Pipe owner dodged serious trouble for decades
- Five Victims Briefly Held Hostage in Armed Robbery Lubbock PD Says
- Caldwell County oil fire under control
- Family files lawsuit in police shooting of Fort Worth homeowner, more
- Irving Teenager Killed, Boyfriend Arrested: Police
- Denton Police Investigating Shooting Deaths Of 2 People
- Pine Tree ISD Bus Driver Attacked
- Cameron County Deputy Hits Teen with Unit VIDEO
- Texas Resident Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIS
- Volunteer firefighter injured while battling blaze in Cypress
- Ambulance crashes near Jasper, first responders unhurt
- — Waco / biker gang shootings —
- Twin Peaks Biker: Waco PD Put Everyone in ‘Harms Way,’ Not the Bikers
- Waco witness: ‘It was a setup from start to finish’
Political and other Texas news for 5/26/2015
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