- —-Texas Legislature / government / issues —–
- Pratt: Early voting is still underway, get out and support all 7 propositions AUDIO
- Abbott Discusses Call To End Sanctuary Cities On The Sean Hannity Show VIDEO
- Grassroots to Abbott, Why Wait Until 2017 to Stop Sanctuary Cities
- Abbott targets sanctuary cities, Dallas sheriff’s new policy
- Lt. Gov. Patrick strikes nerves with policy plans – imagine that
- FDA agrees to hear from Texas, Arizona on seized drugs
- Austin Planned Parenthood Abortionist Admits She Alters Baby’s Position To Harvest Intact Heads VIDEO
- Secret videographers expose yet another Texas abortion clinic
- New undercover video accuses TX doc of violating partial-birth abortion ban, medical experts disagree
- HHSC investigates $68 million contract
- UT to Supreme Court: We Need Affirmative Action
- Showdown looms on campus carry
- No guns in classrooms? Regents may make final decision
- Texas school finance ruling could come any day now
- Court to Decide if Autopsy Counts as Health Care
- Justice Guzman: Texas Lawyers not doing Enough Pro Bono
- Cases based on discredited bite-mark evidence will be tough to find
- New sections of Grand Parkway aren’t open yet, but rates are rising
- Interstate 27 Support Letter Sent to Texas Transportation Commission
- Perry seeks criminal case dismissal without trial
- San Antonio judge appointed to handle suit to remove Dallas DA Susan Hawk
- Governor Abbott Names Chair And Appoints Thompson And Busby To Commission To Study And Review Certain Penal Laws
- Governor Abbott Appoints Eskridge To Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission
- —- Texas campaigns / elections / other political —–
- TX19: Lubbock mayor begins congressional campaign
- TX19: Donald May will make his official candidacy announcement Thursday
- TX19: Nursing director, former Lady Raider announces District 19 candidacy
- In Houston Mayoral Race, A Scrum for a Runoff Berth
- GRAPH: The NRA Is More Popular than Both Obama AND Hillary
- Adults Still Aren’t Children, Doctor; pediatricians take on young-adult smoking
- Baker Who Doesn’t Want to Make Wedding Cakes for Homosexual-Couples Takes His Case to Colorado Supreme Court
- Campaign Finance Reform That Actually Works
- ESPN’s Kornheiser Suggests House ‘Tea Party’ Members Like ISIS Trying to Establish a Caliphate
- Melissa Harris-Perry is unclear on what constitutes ‘hard work’
- Bogus Tea Party Groups Continue To Try And Rip People Off
- ——- 2016 Race for the White House ——–
- Ben Carson Edges Ahead Nationally in Times/CBS News Poll – way too small a sample size for a national poll
- Ben Carson’s Debate
- Ted Cruz’s campaign gains strength ahead of Iowa caucus crunchtime
- Cruz’s Fundraising Strength: Network of Wealthy Donors
- WaPo: Ted Cruz is running the best campaign of any presidential candidate
- Ted Cruz’s plan to pick off the competition
- Sen. Don Huffines to chair Rand Paul’s struggling Texas campaign
- Paul Picks Huffines to Lead Texas Campaign
- Jeb: Trump Lacks Humility, Seriousness to Be Good Commander-in-Chief VIDEO – maybe so but the Bush, blue-blood style of appearing humble is anything but when you consider the idea they hold that they are somehow most qualified to lead us.
- Bush clan ends Houston summit with renewed focus and confidence
- Jeb Bush gets tout from brother as campaign focuses on Rubio
- Trump: ‘Really Bad Things’ Came From Hillary’s Benghazi Testimony, Press Was ‘Good to Her’ VIDEO
- Mike Tyson supports Donald Trump’s campaign for president
- Trump says his father gave him a ‘small’ $1 million loan
- Black Lives Matter Makes a Good Case for Hosting a Democratic Debate
- Clinton Paying a Price Now for Her 2012 Lies About Benghazi
- —————Texas-News-In-DC——————
- Smith Votes Against the Discharge Petition for Export-Import Bank Reauthorization
- Jackson Lee: Congress Must Reauthorize the Export Import Bank Now!
- U.S. House Gives Life Support to Export-Import Bank
- House votes to revive Ex-Im Bank
- An Awful Budget Deal – Dems & Repubs hated sequestration because it worked
- Who Will Take Over Ways and Means after Paul Ryan?
- Ryan Promises Freedom Caucus He’ll Reduce Crackdown on Dissenters
- A Message From U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold
- US House Committee Scales Back Tolling, Expands Speed Cameras
- BTA praises Cuellar for work to expand definition of freight corridors
- —————Business & Economy—————-
- Home Insurance Prices Climb in Texas VIDEO
- Buzzfeed ultimatum: Site threatens to pull out of SXSW after Gamergate panels canceled
- Pipeline Giants take Billion-Dollar Battle to Texas Appellate Courts
- CPS Energy to choose new CEO from 8 contenders after Beneby says no
- Marriott TownePlace Suites to build new prototype in Edinburg
- Small business owners win praise from Valley mayors
- Q&A: Wood Group Mustang CEO opens up about life as a woman in a male-dominated industry
- Huntsman’s net income dips by 70 percent
- Waste Management books higher third-quarter income
- For most Texas pecans, Hurricane Patricia was the perfect storm
- REI won’t open Black Friday, urges employees to get outside with friends, family
- Three ways North Texans spend money differently than households elsewhere
- GM recalling 1.4M cars; oil leaks can cause engine fires
- Del Taco to close most Texas locations, lay off 218
- This massive dog got a first class seat on an American Airlines flight
- Construction starts on long delayed Water Street project in Las Colinas
- Will scattered signs of weakness slow D-FW’s growing economy?
- Dallas billionaire Mark Cuban on what he would change about his ‘buddies at the SEC’
- —————-Statewide general——————-
- Longview High School student Arrested After Bringing Gun to School, Claims Fear of Gangs
- Mother of LHS student says gang fear prompted gun on campus
- Illegal Alien Convicted of Drunk Driving Death, Back in Texas Four Days After Deportation
- Texas Expressway Shootout Linked to Gulf Cartel
- Sexual Predator Charged in Murder of Zoe Hastings
- Widow of Murdered Jogger Commits Suicide: Dallas Police
- Teen dies after falling from roof of car in Amarillo
- DPS Trooper seizes over $2.7 million in heroin in I-40 stop
- AG Human Trafficking Unit Joins Austin Police in Undercover Operation During F1 Weekend
- Investigation Lands Uvalde County Man in Jail for Online Solicitation of a Minor
- Famous ‘Bernie’ case moves from one East Texas town to another in search of impartial jury
- Jury picked for SXSW crash suspect Rashad Owens
- Anti-Wimp: Fort Worth man shoots burglary suspect
- Crash ends police chase involving stolen Houston MetroLift van
- Take a look at an illegal gambling trailer in Brownsville
- Lufkin man arrested for DWI with children in vehicle
- Head-on collision in Angelina County kills 3
- Many Willacy Co. residents will not evacuate due to flooding
Political and other Texas news for 10/27/2015
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