- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Rearguard fight: Butt and Straus block school choice in Texas
- Lawmakers address jail suicides
- Members of both parties urging support for Prop. 7 on November ballot VIDEO
- DA: No charges in legislative witness list dispute
- Ports to Plains highway project is coming VIDEO
- Will Another Traffic Nightmare Precede the Next Big Storm?
- TWDB expects more reuse projects as part of state water plan
- Editorial: DPS is ticketing more Hispanics, but racial profiling seems unlikely
- DPS Museum Day Offers Interactive Fun for Families
- ERCOT announces new executives for grid and market operations, other key officers
- Comptroller’s Office Hosting Meetings to Discuss Agricultural and Timber Registration Number Renewals
- What Texas PolitiFact Won’t Admit about the State’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood
- How Obamacare Allows Companies to Punish Fat Employees
- No, you don’t get to keep your health plan – and premiums are jumping 20%
- Texas’ Uninsured Rate Dips, Remains Highest in Nation, more – but Obamacare was supposed to fix that!
- Governor Abbott Names Chair And Appoints Six To The Governor’s Committee On People With Disabilities
- Some in Texas are ready to secede from the union
- Study says one third of adult Texans have been sexually assaulted
- Austin State Hospital could lose $7.1 million in federal funding
- —- Texas campaigns / elections / other political —–
- HD71: Stacey Scaief to run for GOP nomination for open House seat
- HD71: Longtime Abilene ISD school board member Stan Lambert to seek House seat
- TX30: Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson, 79, will seek another term in Congress
- Former U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk joins Battleground Texas – he plays a lot of golf, will that help B.T.?
- For the First Time Since 1989, Most Americans do Not Think it is “Too Easy” to Buy a Gun
- ——- 2016 Race for the White House ——–
- Crosswind Poll: Trump leads in Texas with 26%, Ben Carson has 19% and Cruz is third with 15%
- Ted Cruz to appear on ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ on Monday
- Lowry: Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty
- Ted Cruz riffs on Reagan with anti-ISIS campaign ad VIDEO
- Cruz Has Little to Gain by Entering Fray in Debate
- Pratt: Trump great on some issues, horrible on others AUDIO
- Michael Reagan: ‘Not Much’ My Father, Trump Have in Common VIDEO
- Stop It. Donald Trump is Nothing Like Ronald Reagan.
- Gutfeld: ‘Maybe Trump Is the Right-Wing Obama’ VIDEO
- Glenn Beck: Tea Partiers Who Support Donald Trump Are Racist – the point, I think, is that in many ways Trump is like Obama – a cult of personality into which people are reading what they believe regardless of whether there is any evidence Trump believes such.
- Tea Party Activists Blast Beck Over Racism Charges
- Glenn Beck Cites Rick ‘Gollum-in-Glasses’ Wilson, Continues Attack on Tea Party Base
- Grieder: How to Tackle Trump
- Another So-Called Conservative Commentator Has a ‘Trump Meltdown’
- CNN Has Spent 78% of Its GOP Primary Coverage on Trump – he’s the headline getter so why not?
- Socialist Bernie Sanders making similar argument to Trump manufacturing
- Hillary Clinton in Dallas Tuesday for fundraiser, scraps public event – wants to be President of the USA but can’t face the public!
- Hillary Clinton Says Sexual Assault Survivors Have the ‘Right To Be Believed’ — Does That Apply to Her Husband’s Alleged Victims?
- A tip sheet on what to look for in tonight’s GOP presidential debate
- ‘Low energy’ is not an insult in politics
- —————Texas-News-In-DC——————
- Boehner and his allies prepare fall battle with conservative GOP critics
- Cornyn: On Iran, Democrats Putting Politics First
- Krauthammer’s Take: Why Is McConnell Letting Dems Filibuster Iran Resolutions?
- Did your House member vote for Boehner? If so, who’s primarying him?
- White House, Houston booster group tussle over oil exports
- CIA releases thousands of classified documents from Johnson, Kennedy presidencies
- —————Business & Economy—————-
- PRI: The 50-State Small Business Regulation Index
- Oil rallies amid Fed focus, inventory data, and OPEC rumors
- North Texas Whataburger Employee Refused to Serve Police Officers
- Layoffs in Oil Industry, Companies in Lubbock Hiring
- Another report warns of high Texas home prices
- Redevelopment starting soon south of Dallas’ Love Field
- American Airlines CEO still looking at HQ move, but will stay in Dallas-Fort Worth
- American Airlines takes another step in merger process with new operations center
- American Airlines fined $20,000 for not properly compensating bumped passengers
- Uber to recruit 5,000 East Austin drivers
- AT&T raises LTE throttling threshold to a whopping 22 gigabytes
- —————-Statewide general——————-
- CAIR Calls Alleged Texas High School ‘Hoax Bomb’ Islamophobic
- Irving MacArthur high school teen arrested for building a clock VIDEO
- Irving Police Chief: Race Had Nothing to Do With Student’s Arrest
- James Ragland: Irving officials owe young Ahmed Mohamed a big apology
- Obama throws support behind Tx. teen arrested for bringing homemade clock to school
- San Angelo Resident Chosen to Meet the Pope at September 11 Memorial in New York
- Additional charges filed after East Texas church threats from Muslim
- Dallas securities broker admits in federal court to defrauding investors out of millions
- Texas Woman Dies from Salmonella
- Police Impersonator Targeting Women Behind Bars VIDEO
- Houston ISD bus driver thought she was going to die in wreck that killed two students
- Family of teen killed in Houston ISD bus crash plans to sue
- San Angelo man arrested for improper visual recording
- Two Critically Injured by Propane Explosion in Seminole, Two Airlifted to Hospital After Home Explosion in Gaines County
- Student Teacher Shares Surprising 10-Year Connection With Fallen Pecos Officer
- Slaton man convicted of pouring gasoline over wife, threatening to set her on fire
- Lubbock ISD police search for suspect in handgun incident near Mackenzie Middle School
- DPS: Reward Increased to $10,000 for Most Wanted Fugitive
- In Bland wrongful death case, sides await report from Rangers
- Cleburne Man Arrested on Theft of Livestock Charges
- Bexar County, deputies sued in fatal shooting of Texas man
- Sources: Travis Co. jail fire may have resulted from unauthorized chemical weapon
- Officers Use Taser On Naked Man Walking Toward Cameron Head Start
- Train Crew Finds Dismembered Body On Waco-area Railroad Bridge
- Mineola Police: “Very fortunate our officer wasn’t killed”
- Red tide shows up off southern Texas coast, some fish kills
- Assault case dropped against former Harlingen city manager
- Austin Cap Metro: Driver on paid leave after bus struck, killed woman
- Northwest Dallas County had its fourth earthquake in five days Wednesday afternoon
- 1 shot in apparent road rage incident, Lewisville police say
Political and other Texas news for 9/16/2015
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