- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Releases 2019 Interim Charges to the Texas Senate
- Conservatives Plan to Save Texas After Purple Session, Bonnen Scandal VIDEO
- Analysis: Maybe the Texas House should try something new and completely different
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Fires Back at Liberal Bureaucrats
- DPS: Austin woman sprays employees, paintings with “blood and urine” at Texas State Capitol
- Austin ISD sex ed battle could be preview of state-level debate
- Governor Abbott Directs State Agency to Remove Homeless from Underpass Encampments in Austin
- Proposition Protecting Against a State Income Tax Becomes Flashpoint Ahead of Tuesday Vote
- Texas Officials Testify to Lawmakers About Mass Violence
- Lawmaker panel looks at masks, video games in mass violence prevention
- Senate committee on mass violence to meet again Wednesday
- Stretch of highway in Goldthwaite named for fallen DPS officer Sgt. William Keesee
- Abbott Appoints Moore To The Governing Board Of The Texas School For The Deaf
- Texas Joins Coalition of States Aiming to Curtail California Power Grab
- Hurting Texas teachers to help pad insurance company pockets – bill doesn’t require teachers to buy funds with high fees
- Across the Board, Scores Drop in Math and Reading for U.S. Students – see what the billions has bought us? Nothing. Maybe this is a part: Teens Spend 7 Hours Daily on Screens, 12 Minutes Reading Books: Survey
- Texas, like nation, sees little progress in national report card
- Here’s how many Texans don’t have health insurance, according to new census data
- HS28: Chron overview of the HD28 special election
- Citing impending retirement, Bonnen campaign nixes fundraiser with John Nau in Houston
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- Abortion advocates backing several Texas Dem campaigns
- Meet the candidates running to beat John Cornyn
- Royce West is banking on his experience to win the U.S. Senate nomination
- MJ Hegar rivals pounce as she rejects Beto O’Rourke’s call for mandatory buybacks of assault weapons
- Lefty Chris Bell: Cornyn’s gun-violence plan is all talk, no action
- TX31: Democrat Tammy Young declares run for John Carter’s seat
- TX13: Elaine Hays Announces Campaign, more – I thought she had already done so
- TX13: More Candidates Join 13th Congressional District Race
- Say yes or no on Trump impeachment: Texas Rep. Brian Babin wants rare voice vote by House members
- Debate over biofuel quota continues on Capitol Hill – farmers should grow food not fuel. I don’t want ethanol in my gasoline.
- Trump wins one against California on climate rules. Carmakers side with White House
- Thornberry Backs Turkey Sanctions in House Vote
- President Trump is right to mark the death al-Baghdadi as a victory
- Sen. Cruz: ‘U.S. Must Stop Russia’s Nord Stream 2’
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- The Head Of Joe Biden’s New Super PAC Is A Foreign Government Agent
- After Biden reversal on super PAC, allies form outside group
- Biden’s Edge Over Trump Wanes, Polling Shows
- NY Times: Joe Biden’s ongoing battle with his own tongue
- Did Bernie get a poll bounce from AOC’s endorsement?
- Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar Rally Moves to Bigger Arena Due to High Demand
- Poll: Tulsi Gabbard Leads Kamala Harris in Democratic Primary
- Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash
- Kamala Harris Insults Democrats – Is It Any Wonder She’s Lost Traction?
- The death of a terrorist can’t overcome Kamala’s hate for Trump
- Elizabeth Warren: 2 Million Lost Jobs ‘Part of the Cost Issue’ for Medicare for All
- Elizabeth Warren: I Fight Climate Change by ‘Mostly’ Flying Commercial
- Elizabeth Warren standing next to a dude wearing a t-shirt plastered with her face ‘must be what hell looks like’
- Throuple Democrat blames men and Republicans for her resignation
- Romney finds half of his town hall attendees don’t support his attacks on President Trump
- Is Trump Facing a 1960s-Style Revolt?
- Ilhan Omar’s Shameful Armenian-Genocide Statement
- Is Facebook censoring conservatives or is moderating just too hard?
- Meghan Murphy: Canadian feminist’s trans talk sparks uproar – Leftist tolerance does not tolerate differing opinions
- The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Cities In America
- What we know about Atatiana Jefferson supports a robust defense of the Second Amendment
- Rex Tillerson Tied to Climate Report at Exxon Fraud Trial
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- CBP Commissioner Mark A. Morgan Gives 2019 Border Statistics VIDEO
- Three Migrant Bodies Found in as Many Days near Texas Border
- Trump Administration Begins Testing Expedited Asylum Program in El Paso
- Border Arrests and Denials for Entry Skyrocketed in Fiscal Year 2019
- Crossdressing Mexican Cartel Leader Rescued from Custody — Officials Deny Incident
- Former Coahuila Governor Extradited to U.S. on Money Laundering Charges
- Mexico Records 500 Cartel Murders in One Week
- Mexican Cartel Drone Smuggling Will Increase with More Border Walls
- 2 arrested after broadcasting smuggling attempt on Facebook Live
- Trump got his border wall money. So why is the National Guard still in South Texas? – one has little to do with the other
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- Texas named best state to survive potential recession in 2020
- Texas economic indicators mixed ahead of Fed decision – actually the manufacturing, service sector and retail reports were all positive.
- Trump’s steel tariffs were supposed to save the industry. They made things worse
- Electric shareable mopeds arrive in Austin
- Texas wind energy blows away the competition – nope, taxpayers do all the blowing with the substantial subsidies
- United Supermarkets Becomes Official Supermarket of Texas Tech
- Raider Park sues City of Lubbock for $1 million or more
- Rick Dykes settles with First Bank, allegations of check kiting
- Swamp’s Nationals beat Astros 7-2, force Game 7 in World Series
- Early returns on High Plains cotton production “down 25 to 30 percent”
- For Boomers Reframing Aging, Age-Proofing A Home Won’t Come Cheap
- Texas coal companies are leaving behind contaminated land
- Booming ‘burbs: The towns around Austin that have seen home prices skyrocket
- American Airlines president: Growth at DFW this year ‘exceeded our initial expectations’
- Boeing’s 737 Max test pilot looms over congressional hearings. He now works for Southwest Airlines.
- Southwest Airlines pilots union says airplane restroom video was a pre-recorded selfie
- AT&T cutting mobile plan prices to better compete with lineups from Verizon, T-Mobile
- Firefly Aerospace to work with NYSE-listed propulsion company for space flights
- Centurion American plans mixed-use project at Tarrant County mall site
- D-FW commercial building starts dropped in September
- Mixed month for Houston area construction projects started in September
- Houston co. raises $50M from Abu Dhabi investor for LNG projects
- Crude inventories spike, but overall petroleum stocks fall again
- Consultants: El Paso Electric customers may suffer financially in proposed sale
- Brinker International Reports First Quarter Of Fiscal 2020 Results
- No alert system at Texas facility damaged by fire in March
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- Federal judge tosses conviction out in death of 1-year-old in Austin
- Jury takes just four minutes to convict Austin man in fatal stabbing after Cowboys game
- Former Bexar County deputy jailed for allegedly using informant to obtain drugs
- Travis County lung injuries from vaping double in past month, health officials say
- Texan Gets 3 Years Over Fake PAC Funding in 2016 Election
- Prosecutor: Texas Man Shot and Beheaded Roommate
- Former Coryell County Chief Deputy under investigation, more
- Wichita County woman charged with animal cruelty
- Man arrested after attempting to take Wichita Falls police officer’s gun
- Cisco man dead in rollover crash near Moran Monday
- Former Abilene attorney Burt Burnett pleads guilty to not paying clients settlement money
- Person of interest in 2018 murder of Levelland woman in Abilene back in court for drug charge
- Teen indicted, charged with injury to elderly; shoved woman on pacemaker, broke her cell phone, police reports say
- Ice-slicked roads wreak havoc around Lubbock, more to come
- Nacogdoches fertility doctor likely won’t be investigated for using his sperm to inseminate a woman
- Former Dayton ISD employee sentenced 60 years for sexual assault of a child
- Astros fan struck by car in downtown Houston after World Series game
- Man shot by passing bicyclist while walking in north Houston – see, bicycles kill
- Sinkhole forms in northwest Harris County in daycare playground, shuts down roadway
- Husband runs over wife near downtown Houston, fatally striking her
- Austin police: Man drove girl to Houston, sexually assaulted her multiple times
- Waco Police make arrest in murder of teen
- Lufkin Police arrest suspect after 2-hour stand-off
- Preston Royal Village tornado recovery inches along as roads reopen, some power is restored
- Tornado damage attracts bad guys, but here’s one who got away – and more Watchdog tales
- Deductible scam targets Dallas storm victims
- FWISD Teacher Arrested After Suicide Attempt, Accused Of Having Sexual Relationship With Student
- McKinney ISD Assistant Principal Arrested, Charged With Continuous Sex Abuse Of Child
- 8 charged in San Antonio gambling raid, includes SAPD dispatcher
- Brawl breaks out outside Waco Whataburger drive-thru window
- Texas Juvenile Prison Officer Charged With Sexually Assault
- Texas Deputy Who Struck Man He Invited to Slap Him Indicted
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- Midland ISD principal tells staff of possible open records request to determine who voted – seems like a way to pressure district staff to vote
- Midland ISD leaders questioned over purchase of golf course property
- Wichita Falls: Bids being accepted for $2.4 mil trail section
- Wichita Falls: New project requests presented at the 4B sales tax board
- Mystery solved: Traffic Engineering Division reveals reason behind sirens going off around Wichita Falls
- Montague Co. Commissioners Court approves payment for highway expansion
- Breckenridge ISD Principals present improvement plans to the board
- Waldrop Construction to build event center for Comanche school district
- Britton: Signing of waivers rectified mistake made during Brown County budget process
- Howard County issues burn ban
- Raider Park sues City of Lubbock for $1 million or more
- Woodrow Volunteer Fire Department building new fire station VIDEO
- Dallas County’s early voting running smoothly for most
- Dallas ISD says it may take at least 2 years to rebuild schools destroyed by tornado
- Keller School District Vendors Are Funding PAC Promoting Bond – such is the nasty norm across the state.
- Easton mayor says he will use ‘executive powers’ to usurp opposition from city council
- Fort Worth residents demand action over words while seeking greater police oversight
- Smith County Becomes Seventh “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” in Texas
- “Staggering Increase” in Crime Leads to Calls for New Harris County Paid Leave Policy
- Big coal gave a tiny Texas town free land. There’s a major catch.
- Capital Metro unveils $9.8B price tag for light rail
- City of Austin considers purchasing hotels up for sale to temporarily house the homeless VIDEO
- City of Marlin hosts Finalist Forum for police chief position VIDEO
- Palmview hosts meeting to address frustration over sewer project
- Palmview shut down fire department building amid concerns about mold
- Alton gains new alternate municipal judge
- La Joya may approve ‘agreements’ with more than a dozen city employees Saturday
- Houston and feds fight over post-Harvey sandbar in San Jacinto River
- San Antonio unveils five-year domestic violence plan
- SAWS customers facing water rate increases of 15% or more in 2020
- San Antonio’s CPS Energy to double solar but also keep coal
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- Western Texas College to unearth time capsule at 50th Anniversary celebration
- MSU Texas’s most popular majors are in health and science field – sort of odd for a “liberal arts college” but likely better for the students.
- MSU Texas and Texas Tech partner for new health center
- Breaking barriers in Brownwood, TSTC female welding student numbers rise
- ACU NEXT Lab researcher tackles project to extract medical isotope
- Hardin-Simmons’ Christlieb Sponsor Program
- TTU: John Dascanio selected as senior associate dean for vet school
- TTU Study: Most People Blindly Trust Calculators – Even When Wrong
- TTU’s Hocutt speaks on NCAA decision to compensate student athletes for likenesses, more
- Cantu: UT makes waves with addition of water polo to athletics budget
- UT’s McCombs changes business handbooks every semester to reflect gender-inclusive
- Texas A&M AgriLife shows off cutting-edge genomics lab
- A&M student and faculty participants discuss ways to improve race relations at the Difficult Dialogues on Campus Race Relations workshop
- Texas Instruments giving $5M to University of Texas at Dallas to bolster area’s engineering
- SMU Loses Building Heat and Hot Water due to Steam Leak
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