- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Abbott: Texas won’t legalize medicinal or recreational pot
- Signature on Texas Compassionate Use Act brings tears of joy to some long-suffering families
- Abbott Vetoes Overdose Defense, Emergency Detention Bills
- Abbott says requiring [so-called] dark-money disclosure is “unconstitutional”
- Governor Greg Abbott on Campus Carry and Battling the Obama Administration AUDIO
- Dan Patrick Lists Accomplishments and Disappointments in 84th Texas Legislature AUDIO
- Lawmakers had a few more tax breaks in them
- Border lawmakers split on new $209 billion state budget
- A Closer Look at the Final 2016-17 State Budget
- Abbott signals that he will sign ‘campus carry’ into law VIDEO
- Jury still out on how good is the campus-carry bill passed AUDIO
- ‘Justice train’ moves forward as Abbott signs Tim Cole review committee bill
- Medicaid Budget Kicks Can Down Road, Experts Say
- Texas Can Lead the Way Protecting Digital Privacy Rights
- In Conservative Legislature, Few Abortion Bills Passed
- Not every dog had its day this session in Texas Legislature
- For some tea party leaders, Legislature’s brew was weak
- Editorial: Legislature brings long-overdue progress on transportation
- Higher education got boost in Legislature, but was it enough?
- Texas Is All for Free Enterprise – Until the Lawmakers Show Up – taxpayer subsidized Tesla’s PR war
- Rangel: Unusual adjournment for an unusual session
- Texas Legislature Closes with Multiple Conservative Victories
- At end of session, environmental, business interests differ on results
- Environmentalists upset over new state permit law
- See some of the most prominent bills that managed to pass the Texas legislature this session
- The 10 biggest issues the Legislature tackled this session
- Jeffers: Lack of Legislature veterans hurt Dallas-area delegation
- Meet the ‘passionate’ Dallas lawmaker who broke six gavels in the Texas House
- Herman: Texas lawmakers give lesson on friendship
- Burka: The Leadership Race
- Sen. Troy Fraser will not seek re-election to SD24
- DPS Nominated for Secrecy Award
- DPS Joins National Effort to Inspect Commercial Vehicles
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department releases updated large mouth bass design for fishermen
- Lester Leroy Bower scheduled for execution
- Arlington man, 67, set to die for 4 Sherman-area slayings 31 years ago
- —- Campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Ratliff not seeking re-election to State Board of Education next year – great news!
- Former Clinton Cabinet Secretary Uses Floods to Attack Texas and Ted Cruz
- Cruz roundup: News polls with mixed results, biting his tongue on Rand
- ‘Tom Brady was framed’ and Ted Cruz knows who did it
- After Leaving Office, Rick Perry Finds Ways to Make Money
- Huckabee: I wish I could have felt like a woman so I could shower with the girls in high school
- What the House would look like if ‘one person, one vote’ were gone
- The long term decline in the United States’ GDP
- Some Thoughts On Global Warming Simulations
- Did government conspire with homosexual group to punish Christian bakers?
- ————–Texas-News-In-DC—————–
- Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president
- ————Business & Economy—————–
- Gannett Buys El Paso Times, 6 New Mexico Papers
- First Financial completes 4Trust acquisition
- First Bank Lubbock Bancshares acquires First National Bank in Colorado City
- Texas crop, weather for June 2: Most corn should fare well as fields dry out
- Lubbock-area cotton farmers face Friday deadline to plant for Federal crop insurance coverage VIDEO
- Presidio Officials, Business Owners: Trans Pecos Pipeline Positives Outweigh Negatives
- Drilling Deeper: In Times Like These
- Summer’s almost here, so it’s time for the Southwest Airlines fall fare sale
- Dallas-area ranked as nation’s most business-friendly city
- Dallas to boost Love Field parking, eventually, with $181 million garage
- Dallas-area tops U.S. in home price increases
- Blue Bell, FDA had listeria warning signs at Alabama plant years ago
- —————Statewide general——————
- Juvenile Inmate Allegedly Injured by Ector County Sheriff’s Deputies, Officials Investigating Incident
- Wife of ex-Collin Street Bakery exec pleads guilty to her role in swindling $16 million
- Former Odessa Youth Pastor Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault of a Child Charges
- Two Houston neighborhoods called most dangerous in U.S.
- Harris Co. inmate receives $400K settlement for squalid cell conditions
- Astros say fan carrying gun at Monday’s game was plain clothes police officer VIDEO
- Oak Ridge’s Luken Baker named Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year
- Houston business owner shoots, kills would-be burglar – anti-wimp
- Odessa store owner shoots robber
- Abilene PD bomb squad called to detonate land mine in Brown County
- 2 women from Michigan jailed in Texas, $716K marijuana case
- BNSF train derailed west of Smyer in Hockley Co.
- Officials Continue to Monitor Rubble After Plant Fire in Littlefield, Fear of Respark
- Man Dies After Being Stabbed in Iraan
- Andrews Police Investigating After 13-Year-Old Boy Was Robbed At Gunpoint
- Stolen Richardson ISD school bus turns up abandoned in Louisiana after chase on I-20
- Killer’s mother persuades him to plead guilty in Dallas County case
- Protests continue at Denton drilling site VIDEO
- Though Fracked Again, Denton Says Fight Isn’t Over
- Parlin indicted for capital murder in deaths of Blair, Sheltons
- Police: Two men attempted to sexually assault girl in Taylor
- Austin Music Census finds city at tipping point as Live Music Capital
- FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities
- Houston father accused of beating toddler to death over potty training frustrations
- Charges dismissed in Houston dog park shooting
- 2 men held in kidnapping of San Antonio woman
- Pedestrian hit, killed by Houston’s METRORail
- — Waco / biker gang shootings —
- Waco Judges Gone Wild: Bikers Released, Rearrested and Released Again
- Waco Twin Peaks Shootings: Two Weeks Later, More Questions than Answers
- Questions Remain as Lawsuits Pile Up Against Twin Peaks Franchisee
- Three More Twin Peaks Defendants File For Reduced Bond Hearings
Political and other Texas news for 6/2/2015
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