- How, Dan Patrick, does ignoring duplicity help the Texas GOP?
- Blistered by the GOP, Dan Patrick renews call for stronger gun background checks – tripling down on stupid
- How Will Embracing Gun Control Affect GOP in 2020?
- Sutherland Springs hero defends gun rights, speaks on firearm safety proposals
- New Texas law on Title IX reporting leaves college journalists and advisors in a tough spot
- Trio of audits out from Health & Human Services Commission OIG
- Texas Election Integrity Fact vs. Fiction
- Abbott Appoints Four To Texas Commission on Fire Protection
- Abbott Appoints Four To Advisory Council On Emergency Medical Services
- Abbott Names Chair And Appoints Three To Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board
- TDI creates new division to focus on health market issues
- Texas’ abstinence-only sex ed isn’t working, according to groups urging kids be taught more about contraception – isn’t working by what definition?
- Latest NHTSA Report: No School Bus Passing Deaths In 2017 – school bus drivers cause more child fatalities than passing motorists
- Texas Green Party has qualified for 2020 ballot and welcomes Democrats’ climate change focus
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- Governor Greg Abbott Declares State Of Disaster As Tropical System Impacts Texas
- Abbott Waives Towing Regulations In Response To Tropical Storm Imelda
- Severe Tropical Weather SITREP 3 (pdf)
- Official: More Than 1,000 People Have Had to Be Rescued in the Houston Area Because of Flooding From Storm
- ‘It’s Bad’: Hundreds of Water Rescues as Imelda Soaks Texas
- High water rescues underway across Jefferson County, hospital in Winnie evacuated VIDEO
- More than 40 inches of rain falls across Southeast Texas; I-10 shut down, reports TxDOT
- Flash flood emergency for parts of Harris County as Imelda moves northeast, officials say
- ‘Worse than Harvey’: Small Houston-area town floods in Imelda aftermath
- Photos show severe flooding from Tropical Depression Imelda across southeast Texas
- Beaumont TV station flooded by Imelda, sister station KHOU in Houston helps keep them on-air
- 3 injured as post office building collapses in north Harris County
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- Trump Says Gun Negotiations Going ‘Very Slowly’
- White House Distances Itself from Gun Control Plan Reportedly Circulated by Trump Officials
- GOP signals unease with Barr’s gun plan – there is some good thinking in this about how not to create a de facto gun registry with private transfer background checks.
- TX19: Rep. Jodey Arrington Not In Favor Of Expanded Background Checks
- See how much the NRA has donated to Texas elected officials. The actual number might surprise you – right, it is relatively very little.
- Cruz Renews Call for Maximum Pressure on Iran During Senate Foreign Relations Nomination Hearing
- Texas Democrat in Congress [Vela] calls GOP colleague [Conaway] a ‘racist Christian pretender’ in wake of funding flap – see how willing the Left is to use the tag “racist” when nothing at issue involved race? Disagree with liberals and be tagged a hypocrite and racist.
- Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) vs. the Swamp
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- Why Julián Castro Should Stay in the Presidential Race
- O’Rourke unveils major plan to legalize marijuana
- O’Rourke’s plan to legalize marijuana includes clemency for possession sentences and grants for those who already served time
- Beto O’Rourke Panned on Reddit for Deleting Vow to Let Felons Vote
- Beto O’Rourke: AR-15 Salesman of the Month, Perhaps the Year
- Kamala Harris: Mandatory gun buybacks are ‘a good idea’ but we need to do it the ‘right way’
- Bernie Sanders Rolls Out $2.5 Trillion ‘Housing for All’ Plan
- North Texas hosts ‘America in One Room’ poll for 2020 presidential election
- How a hard-charging Dallas lawyer helped fuel a civil war inside the NRA – a good read.
- Five Signs Your Church Might Be Heading Toward Progressive [Leftist non-] Christianity
- Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions
- Ted Cruz backs 2016 N.H. chairman in Senate race that embattled Trump aide Corey Lewandowski may join
- Poll: Americans Lack Confidence in Public Leaders
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- Trump visits new border wall; cites national emergency
- Federal Defense Bill Heads to Conference with Potential Border Implications for Texas, Border Wall
- Visa denial rates for highly skilled workers are on the rise. Small Texas businesses are taking a hit.
- Sen. Mike Lee’s Green Card Giveaway for Big Tech Blocked in Senate, for Now
- Mexican Immigration Efforts Helps Border Patrol Return to Core Mission, Say Feds
- ‘Everybody Cries Here’: Hope and Despair in Mexican Shelter – then stay home
- Cuccinelli Emerging as Trump’s Leading Voice on Immigration
- GRAPHIC: Decaying Remains of Migrant Found on Texas Ranch 80 Miles from Border
- Bomb Threat Shutters Mexican Border City Hall [Matamoros] for Third Time
- Mexican Regional Intelligence Chief Wounded in Highway Shootout
- Cartel Gunmen Storm Mexican Hospital to Finish-Off Rival
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- Amazon expanding Austin presence with 600 new tech jobs
- Truck maker Navistar confirms plans to build plant in San Antonio – great news!
- ‘Nothing else like this’: Inside Frost Bank Tower, San Antonio’s newest downtown office building
- Abbott Announces New Ericsson 5G Manufacturing Facility in Lewisville
- Oxy selling stake in Plains All American for $650M
- Boom times and fresh starts in the Permian Basin oil fields
- AAA Texas: Gas Prices Spike Across Texas
- Allsup’s stores out of famous burritos but expecting new stock soon
- Reagor Dykes working with manufacturers in reorganization
- Dallas Is Bon Appétit’s 2019 Restaurant City Of The Year
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- Lubbock Police called to break-in of Post Office, packages missing
- Ex-legislative staffer accused of murder, shooting spree declared incompetent for trial
- Crews battle fire at South Austin apartment complex
- Third man arrested in Harris County in connection to Samantha Dean murder
- Echoing other Texas sex abuse exonerations, Houston man claims new science clears him, too
- WF police: Road rage incident leads to aggravated assault arrest
- 18-year-old arrested for assaulting teacher at Rider High in Wichita Falls
- Former Wichita Falls nightclub owner sentenced in stalking case
- Missing Magnolia teen ‘orchestrated her disappearance,’ found safe in nearby town
- Abilene man indicted, reportedly gave girl, 12, alcohol and touched her inappropriately
- Appeals court upholds Abilene woman’s life sentence for killing newborn
- Ambulance collides with car in San Antonio
- Girl found dead in 2016 in Texas may be from Arizona
- Evacuations underway near San Antonio’s AT&T Center due to gas leak
- Odessa man named as one of two victims in Andrews County crash
- Caudill sentenced to 99 years after shooting at police, endangering child in 2017
- Injured Houston PD officer out of hospital, days after being shot three times
- Woman found dead in room at Killeen hotel was homicide victim
- Police confirm allegations against ex-Copperas Cove teacher under investigation
- Woman crippled in crash had to convince police she wasn’t at the wheel VIDEO
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- Dallas County Increases 2020 Fiscal Year Property Taxes 7.5%
- Retirees back in court to challenge legislative fix for Dallas police and fire pension fund
- Cyberattackers hit Travis appraisal district’s website, demand ransom
- Hearing at Austin City Council exposes sharp public divide in bum camping ban debate
- North East ISD might expel eight students for marijuana vaping
- San Antonio councilman proposes limiting construction hours to ease residents’ concerns – this is a civil court issue for those disturbed. Government acting is just more anti-business, big-government interference.
- Lubbock Co: NAAG Pathology’s contract up at the end of September, here’s what’s next VIDEO
- Why Wichita Falls ISD’s tax swap election was a waste.
- Wichita Falls plans for more bike lanes in 2020 VIDEO
- Bowie city receives grant to fix drainage damage VIDEO
- Ector County jail getting new digital mailing system
- Public meeting held to discuss Odessa water contaminated in 1993
- Abilene Housing Authority hopes to expand program for disabled families
- Abilene PD looking to hire more dispatchers
- City of Abilene buys hotel, takes another paying property off property tax rolls downtown
- New CPS court associate judge hired in Taylor County to help backlog of family court cases
- Alpine Fire Chief Mark Scudder passes away
- Idalou ISD responds to social media post claiming threats not taken seriously
- Harris County’s Bail Reform Takes The National Stage
- Manor school district to wait on TEA investigations before acting on superintendent contract
- McLennan Co., Waco authorities remove 7 tons of trash, waste from homeless camps VIDEO
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- New Texas law on Title IX reporting leaves college journalists and advisors in a tough spot
- Vernon College & Wichita Falls ISD team up to offer dual credit at Career Education Center VIDEO
- Texas Tech administration hosts town meeting to discuss future
- TTU political prof receives recognition from UN for climate change activism
- History Made As Texas Tech University Breaks Ground On School Of Veterinary Medicine
- Robert Duncan honored, gets standing ovation at vet school ground breaking
- Veterinarians discuss benefits of TTU vet school
- TTU Southwest Collection, Special Collections Library preserves Texas, campus history
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