- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Wallace Hall Says Speaker Straus ‘Came After Me To Make An Example’
- Case against associate of Texas AG Paxton collapsing
- Police: Suspect in Capitol arson also set fire to police car in Buda
- Luckless at Capitol, Minimum Wage Advocates Go Local
- Foster Care Youth Getting State Ombudsman
- State Disabled Worker Program Faces Overhaul
- GOP Texas lawmakers want health agency to halt Medicaid cut
- How Texas Could Set National Template for Limiting Abortion Access
- First-time Texas drug felons to be eligible for food stamps again
- Bail reform urged after Sandra Bland’s death
- A.G.’s office re-enters “dark-money” fray
- Texas Racing Commission’s budget deadline threatening racetracks
- El Paso Abortion Clinic Will Be First to Reopen in Texas
- Growing suit says Texas denying birth certificates to US-born children
- Comptroller Glenn Hegar Returns Quarter-Billion Dollars To Rightful Owners
- Governor Abbott Appoints Cowen To Texas Historical Records Advisory Board
- Forest Service: Over 200 wildfires hit Texas in past week
- Forest Service: Grant funds available for prescribed burns in East Texas
- DPS Reminds Drivers to Obey Traffic Laws, Use Caution As New School Year Begins
- Did climate change, El Nino make Texas floods worse?
- —- Texas campaigns / elections / other political —–
- HD64: Rich Hagen to seeak seat being vacated by Crownover – he called Crownover a “great conservative” so he must not be.
- ——- 2016 Race for the White House ——–
- Robert Pratt says Texas has huge role in 2016 presidential race
- Influential Iowa conservative Steve Deace endorses Ted Cruz, more
- Trump pushes Cruz out of lead in Texas poll
- Trump Exposes Another Difference Between Cruz, Perry
- Cruz ‘absolutely’ backs ending birthright citizenship
- Ted Cruz: Border security before birthright revocation
- Donald Trump sets new immigration litmus test
- Ted Cruz’s Trump Problem
- Unlikely bedfellows, Cruz and Trump see benefit in mutual embrace
- Lib report: Cruz, Trump in Secret Talks
- Glenn Beck Puzzled Why Conservatives Even Think of Backing Trump
- Pratt: Isn’t Trump as deep into the DC-swamp as anyone in the race?
- Trump and the Policy Debate
- Four years later, Rick Perry has much less buzz in Iowa
- A Different Rick Perry at the Iowa State Fair
- Bush Advisor says Trump’s Immigration Plan ‘Runs Against the Grain of Republicans’
- Jeb Bush to Hold Fundraiser With Father, Brother
- George W. Bush Now Making E-Mail Fundraising Pitches for Jeb
- Poll shows Trump leading, followed by ‘Deez Nuts’
- CNN criteria threaten Fiorina’s chance at main debate stage
- Texas A&M withdraws bid to bring presidential debate to campus
- —————Texas-News-In-DC——————
- Cornyn: Iran Cannot Be Trusted to Inspect Themselves
- Sam Johnson Earns 100% Conservative Award, says Americans for Prosperity
- Cruz: End Planned Parenthood funding
- —————Business & Economy—————-
- Jump in oil supplies beats down futures
- Oil Prices Tumble to New Low, Workers Facing Layoffs, Shortened Hours
- Regal Entertainment movie theaters checking bags for firearms
- Lakewood Theater’s owner explains why they’re tossing the landmark’s seats into a dumpster
- Texas Racing Commission’s budget deadline threatening racetracks
- Boy waves at a Southwest Airlines airplane and gets a surprise VIDEO
- Southwest Airlines chairman Gary Kelly sells $1.5 million in shares
- Justice Department moves to block Energy Future bankruptcy over environmental liabilities – dumb, stupid, horrible government.
- Huge data center will replace old hotel near downtown Dallas
- Downtown Dallas skyscraper in play for sale
- Dallas startup uses LEDs to grow plants inside shipping containers
- Mackey: Whole Foods’ philosophy tested by tough times
- Stage Stores to close 90 locations
- New patent infringement lawsuits in East Texas shatter records
- CFO leaves struggling Goodrich Petroleum
- Amazon agrees to build distribution center in San Marcos
- ‘For Sale’ sign at Kearney’s Store may end 126-year run
- —————-Statewide general——————-
- Former Lubbock Assistant D.A. Charged With Compelling Prostitution, Lubbock defense attorney denies prostitution charges levied against him
- Arlington ISD employee arrested for possession of child pornography
- Harris County jailer dies after confrontation with combative inmate
- Autopsy report shows how bikers at Twin Peaks shootout were killed
- Arrest Made in Case of Murdered Young County Woman
- Lightning strikes blamed for Valero refinery, tank fires in Texas City
- 1 man killed, 1 wounded in Webster restaurant parking lot shooting
- Fort Stockton Man Accused of Having Child Pornography
- No Charges to be Filed Following Deadly Dog Mauling in Pecos
- Anti-Wimp: Masked intruder pays ultimate price
- Burglar Caught In The Act Opens Fire On Local Resident As He Flees
- Man beaten, meds stolen during home invasion
- Texas Man Again Convicted In 1976 Bus Attendant Slaying
- Minor flooding occurring across parts of Houston, warnings issued
- Man Pleads Guilty In Campus Stabbing Rampage
- Delta flight turns around for emergency landing at D/FW
- Ex-policeman gets 8 years for running over trooper wife
- Man admits to 2 Dallas murders within past week, police say
- Houston rapper among city’s most wanted child predator fugitives
Political and other Texas news for 8/20/2015
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