- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Abbott arrives in Mexico for trade, security talks
- On first official trip to Mexico, Gov. Abbott must balance politics, diplomacy
- Governor Abbott: We Must Strengthen Our Working Relationship With Mexico
- Abbott Signs Transportation Agreement With Mexico; Announces Energy Task Force
- Governor Abbott Meets With Security And Energy Officials; Gives Keynote Address In Mexico City
- Governor Abbott Attends Luncheon With Mexico State Officials And Governors
- Governor Abbott Meets With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto; Extends Invitation To Texas
- Abbott in Mexico: Let’s grow our trade ties
- Need for safe border common ground, Abbott says during Mexico visit
- More state troopers are headed south, where they are already tripping over federal agents – the new anti-border enforcement line we’ll be hearing more versions of…
- Texas’ physician lawmakers haven’t expanded health care policy debate so that is their job? To grow government welfare programs? Healthcare is available to all and doesn’t need government “expanding” it. What is being advocated is the taxpayers pick up more and more of the tab for those who won’t pay.
- Rep. Dan Flynn Writes Houstonians About Public Pensions, But Not His Own
- Where will Texas’ gold rush be?
- Let lawmakers set new direction for horse racing
- Racing commission fight driven by powerful lobbies
- Pro-life leader says Texas funding women’s health services at historically high levels
- Texas Medical Board lets DEA sneak peeks at patient records
- Fighting homosexual “marriage” could cost state $750,000
- Firing squad, blood-draining among suggestions sent to Gov. Greg Abbott to continue Texas death penalty
- Kids or Criminals? Growing up in and getting out of the Texas prison system
- Editorial: The Texas Legislature needs to fix school finance issue once and for all – silly naiveté as there is no way to ever satisfy the “equality” argument.
- Former state Rep. Hilderbran pushing P3’s as director of the Facilities Commission
- Attorney General Paxton Statement on Water Ruling by North Dakota Judge
- ‘Boom or bust’ species: Quail numbers rise sharply
- Texas Teacher Sexual Misconduct Cases Increase for 7th Straight Year
- Attorney General’s Fugitive Unit Conducts Child Support Roundup
- Alamo Attacked: Vandal Carved His Name on Sacred Chapel
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Kicks Off Good For Texas Tour
- Report: Fracking on UT System land posing environmental dangers – same old stuff
- Family sues Texas over centuries-old Spanish land grant mineral rights
- —- Texas campaigns / elections / other political —–
- Is Rep. Byron “Obama” Cook Even Running?
- Straus, Geren get major cash from public unions
- HD71 Rep. Susan King, Weighing Senate Run, Not Seeking Re-election
- SD24: Jon Cobb enters race for Republican nomination for Texas Senate – code words in the statement make him sound a non-conservative
- In Legislative Primaries, Cruz’s Support Already Causing Buzz
- Texas AG makes first post-indictment campaign appearance
- Jennings: Gov. Greg Abbott channels his inner Lois Lerner
- Texan declares own brand of secession
- Drugs, divorce and a demanding campaign: The undoing of Susan Hawk
- Texas homosexual lobby calls “Faith Family Freedom Tour” a “hatefest”
- ——- 2016 Race for the White House ——–
- Jeffers: Rick Perry shouldn’t give up on presidential campaign that’s a run for redemption
- Rick Perry ‘on life support’ in South Carolina
- Ted Cruz cozies up to Donald Trump, aims for his supporters
- Ted Cruz to visit jailed Kentucky clerk Kim Davis
- Ted Cruz says it’s always been that babies born to U.S. citizens abroad are citizens from birth
- Poll: Trump Surges Past Hillary, Biden, Sanders, and Gore — Here Are Some Reasons Why
- Donald Trump brings presidential campaign to North Texas
- Latinos plan anti-Trump rally in Dallas, ahead of Trump visit – come on, these are Democrats.
- Donald Trump to stage huge September 14 campaign rally at AAC in Dallas
- Trump can’t actually win, can he?
- Palin Defends Trump: We Need a ‘Tough’ POTUS, Not a Master of Trivial Pursuit
- Expect Donald Trump to do better in Caucuses than in Primaries
- Krauthammer: Carson, Trump Held to Different Standard Than Other GOP Candidates VIDEO
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker praises Dez Bryant’s playoff catch
- Ben Carson to Visit Wichita Falls
- A Long Shot No More? Ben Carson’s rise in the polls.
- Is Carly Fiorina presidential material?
- Nordlinger: A Visit with Carly AUDIO
- Fiorina On Clinton War on Women Claims: ‘Boo Hoo Mrs. Clinton’ VIDEO
- And you are a conservative Jeb Bush? AUDIO
- The Presidential candidate from Vernon, Texas: Chris Keniston VIDEO
- —————Texas-News-In-DC——————
- Cornyn’s gun proposal deserves consideration
- Why Cornyn is voting ‘no’ on Iran nuke deal
- Sen. Cruz Statement on Arrest of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis
- Sen. Cruz: Congress Must Stop the #IranDeal VIDEO
- Sheila Jackson Lee supports Iran nuke deal
- Boehner allies say he wants the pain to stop
- The Unlikely Friendships for Texas’ Congressional Delegation
- —————Business & Economy—————-
- Texas’ labor force shrinks as job exits outpace growth
- Texas crude output up, Petro Index slide continuing
- Oil firms cutting another 700 Texas jobs
- Legendary Texas haberdasher John Malouf has died
- Housing market shows signs it’s slowing down
- These are the highest paid women in Houston
- ION Geophysical to cut 25 percent of workforce
- Rawlings to Bloomberg: Low oil prices won’t hamper Dallas economy, but persistent poverty will
- All 15 Dallas Council Members Sign Letter Supporting Homosexual Pride
- Parkland steps boldly into future with new $1.3 billion hospital
- Dallas’ Cedars neighborhood may get tiny apartments made from shipping containers
- Love Field gate battle gets personal with new filings
- Take a peek at Tilman Fertitta’s exclusive Galveston villas at the San Luis Resort
- Renewed calls for gun control laws spur sales
- Landfill proposal a key step in Exide cleanup plan in Frisco
- AAA: 30 million drivers hit the road for Labor Day Weekend VIDEO
- Texas rural hospitals’ struggles reflect those nationwide
- Apple building second-largest campus in Austin
- In Austin, Apple quietly booming, transforming tech sector’s culture
- High Plains Might Reach 4 Million Bales of Cotton This Harvest
- San Antonio TV news star cut due to racy video
- Coal-Dependent Power Company Eyes West Texas Sun
- NorthStar Midstream moves HQ to The Woodlands
- Plano-based At Home files for IPO
- Developer Harwood International plans new Dallas Uptown office tower
- Dallas’ Stemmons Freeway corridor getting new looks from real estate investor
- Falling peso hits Brownsville economy
- South Padre Island economy improves over the years
- Owner plans to transform downtown Austin office plaza into ‘Faregrounds’
- —————-Statewide general——————-
- Former Assistant Throckmorton City Manager Guilty of Embezzlement
- Texas DPS Employee Allegedly Took Bribes to Give Illegal Aliens Driver Licenses
- Texas teacher charged in child sex case was friends with TV star Parsons
- Police: 2 people arrested in death of Abilene police officer
- Video: Two Arrests in APD Officer Murder VIDEO
- ‘Sweetest’ Dallas dentist killed in Uptown apartment
- ‘Vehicle of interest’ sought in slaying of dentist at Uptown high-rise
- Slain Harris Co. deputy remembered as ‘one of the good guys’
- Thousands Donate to Slain Deputy Goforth’s Widow and Children
- Over $500,000 Raised for Executed Texas Deputy’s Family: Home Mortgage to be Paid Off
- Houston-area sheriff’s deputy remembered during funeral
- Teen provides ‘backup’ for Texas deputy pumping gas
- Carter Lay, grandson of potato chip maker, dies at 44
- Gene Elston, Astros’ original voice, dies at 93
- Scott & White Trauma Surgery Director Dies In Climbing Accident
- Massive El Paso home now under foreclosure
- 9 takeaways from fired Arlington Officer Brad Miller’s personnel file
- 2nd El Paso-area person dies of West Nile virus
- Man shot by Hidalgo County deputies in drug investigation
- No charges in traffic death of Corpus Christi police chief
- 3 Killed in Wreck on Interstate 20 in Martin County
- Second Human Case of West Nile Virus in Wichita County
- Seymour Woman Dies from West Nile Virus
- Emergency vehicles escort Brown Co. sheriff’s body from Abilene to Early
- Getaway driver arrested in Uptown slaying but shooter at large, police say
- Man, 44, accused of killing woman during domestic dispute in Fort Worth
- Two dead in overnight hit-and-run crash in Arlington
- Duncanville police arrest man, 19, suspected of fatally stabbing acquaintance while trying to rob him
- Man firing gun at house shot by Houston police
- Disturbing video shows vicious fight at Houston-area high school
- The most notorious ticket trap in Dallas comes to an end
- 4 die in crash in northwest Dallas; suspect ID’d as 19-year-old Mineral Wells man
- ‘Very disturbing’ video of football players blindsiding official during Texas HS game
- Man shot and killed in Dallas driveway, police say
- TCU Students, Police On Alert for Uber Impersonator Who Made Inappropriate Comments
- Woman finds daughter, estranged husband dead in Fort Worth home
- Man arrested after 5-hour standoff in east Amarillo
- Lubbock police arrest 16-year-old in 17-year-old’s overnight stabbing death AUDIO
- One Transported to Hospital After Midland Plane Crash Saturday VIDEO
- Texas Mother Who Gave Birth in El Salvador: ‘The Doctor Trafficked My Baby’, Baby switched at birth returned to Dallas couple
- 2 freight trains hauling vehicles collide in Texarkana, 2 hurt
- Tank Battery Fire Reported in Midland County
- Texas Rangers investigating death of Levelland man while in police custody
- Lubbock: Vehicle stolen with two children inside VIDEO
- One dead after cement mixer falls and catches fire in Houston
- Aryan Brotherhood of Texas member sentenced in 2012 killing
- Waco police allegedly find loaded handgun in woman’s vagina during traffic stop
- San Antonio police searching for gunman who opened fire on several vehicles during rush hour traffic
- Former Stephenville H.S. standout quarterback who was convicted of sex with minor found dead in Texas
- Coast Guard rescues 2 men from Galveston boat crash
- 2 children abandoned at SW Houston fire station
- Police, Harris County Sheriff’s deputies rescue wounded horse in southeast Houston
- Galveston County man pleads guilty in death of toddler son
- Dispute over battery ends in Liberty County shooting
- Pasadena ISD student dies after collapsing during practice
- Man, Daughter, 11, Found Dead In Home
- Cedar Park car lot stole more than $1 million, police say
Political and other Texas news for 9/8/2015
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