- Everytown admits it isn’t about “gun safety” but Texas press boosts group’s propaganda anyway
- Closed-Door Meeting of Tarrant Co. Judges Draws Texas House Chairman’s Attention
- Energy Prices and Adjustment Tools Debated in Interim Senate and Business Finance Hearing
- Austin Bums to Governor Abbott: rent campsite to us
- Abbottville Provides Safer Option for Homeless Women, Says Integral Care Manager
- Texas A.G. Paxton files suit over Port Neches chemical plant explosion
- 39 States, including Texas, Investigating Juul’s Marketing of Vaping Products
- Texas Gets 100,000+ Documents from Google in Antitrust Probe
- CDC: Six total coronavirus cases confirmed in San Antonio
- Hemp is booming in Texas. Distinguishing it from marijuana is still a challenge.
- Nominations Now Open For The 2020 Governor’s Volunteer Awards
- Governor Abbott Appoints Eight To Rehabilitation Council Of Texas
- Abbott Appoints Miller And Young To Texas Early Learning Council
- Abbott Appoints Thibodeaux To Advisory Council on Postsecondary Education for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Supreme Court rejects Rodney Reed appeal, but justice notes ‘pall of uncertainty’ over guilt
- ACLU lawsuit seeks to halt anti-abortion ordinances in Texas towns – it is an intimidation lawsuit
- ACLU files scattershot lawsuit against Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn in Texas
- Confidential access to contraception for Texas teens has declined, according to a new study
- Loser Salam Abraham wants to end election of Texas judges – Salem is an icon of the self-annointed elite who think they know better than others.
- Commentary: The Open Primary Effect
- Election Integrity Roundup
- Convicted of Voter Fraud, Maria Ortega in the Process of Being Deported
- Judge [Democrat] boots prosecutor from San Antonio courtroom over spouse’s political donation
- Travis County District Attorney Candidates Differ on Felony Drug Prosecutions
- ‘Our jails aren’t medical facilities’: DA candidate José Garza on the War on Drugs in Austin
- Fake Republican PAC, Republican Voters of Texas PAC, Endorses Felon
- HD92: Straus PAC Gives Big Check to Jim Griffin
- SD27: Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. bets on experience, seniority as he confronts two Democratic primary challengers
- Why would a Texas Democrat want a seat in the Republican state Senate?
- Millions being spent in remaining Texas House GOP primary battles between tea partiers and moderates
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Poll: Hegar way out front in crowded Democratic Senate field, poll
- MJ Hegar ahead, Royce West a distant second in poll on Texas Democratic Senate primary
- Democrat Royce West says he can succeed in the U.S. Senate, where he’s vying to take on Sen. John Cornyn
- TX11: Ekstrom is Amarillo Republicans’ Best Choice for Congress says Amarillo Pioneer
- TX11: Texas Values Action endorses Chris Ekstrom in GOP Primary
- TX12: Spending explodes in Fort Worth primary, as conservative groups target Trump-backed Rep. Kay Granger
- TX22: Rand Paul Endorses Kathaleen Wall in Congressional Race
- TX25: In a conservative congressional district, two Austin Democrats race to the left
- TX28: Radical Leftist Jessica Cisneros outraises Rep. Cuellar in race for congressional seat
- TX28: Race Tests Democratic Voters’ Appetite for Liberal Insurgents
- Donald Trump: Coronavirus ‘Very Much Under Control’ in United States
- Odessan receives clemency after 12 years in prison
- Lubbock woman who was granted clemency by President Trump speaks out about experience
- Sens. Cruz, Shaheen Announce Biting Sanctions Against Lebanese Officials Complicit in the Unlawful Detention and Abuse of U.S. Citizens
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Poll: Texas could be Bloomberg’s Waterloo
- UH Hobby School Poll: Texas Democratic Primary Election 2020 Survey
- Sanders’ Latino outreach run by a Texas felon and voiced by an illegal alien – it is interesting that “Latinos” are supporting someone who believes the things that ruined so many Latin American countries causing so many Latinos to come to the USA.
- Bernie touts Nevada win as Texas preview – there is some strange comments from Texans in this story.
- A confident Bernie Sanders barnstorms Texas with burst of momentum
- Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders finishes Texas tour in Austin
- After Nevada win, Bernie Sanders vows to win Texas
- ‘Socialist’ label hasn’t slowed Bernie Sanders, but his march gives some Texas Democrats heartburn
- Bernie Sanders Is Spending Time in Texas. Why?
- Is America Ready for President Noam Chomsky?
- Bernie admits he hasn’t a clue of the cost of his socialist stuff
- Sanders promises to legalize marijuana, repeal immigration policies at Austin rally
- How Democratic presidential candidates are trying to win Latino votes in Texas
- Herman: Weekend at Bernie’s Texas rallies
- Houston PD Chief Acevedo criticizes Bernie Sanders defense of comments on Fidel Castro
- As Bernie Sanders Surges, Texas Liberals Take Their Own Shot
- Hey Bernie: Less Government = MUCH More Money for Everyone – Including Government
- Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern
- Why Bernie Sanders is just the beginning of an American turn to the left
- Cuban Ex-Political Prisoners to DNC: Bernie Sanders Should Apologize
- Brain Freeze: Joe Biden Says He’s ‘Candidate for the U.S. Senate’
- Biden Says He Worked on Paris Climate Deal with Long-Dead Chinese Leader
- Analysis: If Joe Biden Doesn’t Finish Strong in South Carolina’s Primary, His Campaign Is Over
- Pete Buttigieg: I Once Would Have Taken a ‘Pill’ to Stop Being Gay Homosexual – it’s not about “being” it is about what you do in life. Many have extreme sexual attraction to pretty girls but do not cheat on their wives or live as lotharios.
- Warren Thanks Nevada for Keeping Her in Fight
- Elizabeth Warren ramps up campaign in Texas
- Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Woman Position
- Yet Another Way for Blue Staters to Flee to a Red State
- Watch a liberal lynch mob form and riot, in real time VIDEO
- Don’t Believe the Hype: US Carbon Emissions Are Actually Dropping
- ‘A Fetus That Was Born’
- Dem Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says bills to protect unborn babies and abortion survivors are violations of women’s ‘civil rights, human rights’
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- Border / immigration
- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo proposes legal defense fund for [illegal] immigrants
- Mexican Cartels near Texas Increasingly Reliant on Child Recruits
- Crackdown on Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits Takes Effect
- 37 Illegal Aliens Rescued from Laredo Stash House
- $18 Million in Meth, Heroin, Cocaine Seized at Texas Border Crossing
- Air and Marine Operations Help Border Patrol Agents Detain Migrants in South Texas VIDEO
- Ex-Hidalgo County Assistant DA Arrested in Migrant Client Solicitation Case
- Gulf Cartel Border City Turf War Kills at Least 20 Gunmen, Innocents in Week
- Southern Mexico has its own ‘Trump Wall’
- Gulf Cartel Kidnapping Campaign Puts Matamoros on Edge
- U.S. Issues Travel Warning After Matamoros Grenade Attack
- Leaders: 2020 Forecast Is Rosy for Border Trade With Mexico
- Court Closes Courthouse Door on Slain Mexican Teen’s Family
- Demand up for Riverboat Tours Along Private Border Wall
- Convicted of Voter Fraud, Maria Ortega in the Process of Being Deported
- As Trump Barricades the Border, Legal Immigration Is Beginning to Plunge
- Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect
- Audit finds sanctuary cities released more than 17,000 arrested illegal aliens since 2013
- Webb County and Laredo coming face to face with the reality of a border wall
- El Paso Migrant Detention Center to Open After Conditions Stir Anger
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- Business
- Texas Manufacturing Expansion Continues
- Texas Service Sector Expands at Slower Pace; Retail Sales Decline Slightly
- Wages in Bexar County up, but lag far behind other Texas metros – and will “lag” even more behind with San Antonio’s sick-leave and other anti-business policies
- Corpus Christi Hooks Baseball Team severs ties with Law Firm that’s suing the Astros, more
- San Antonio doctor leads development of new sleep disorder guidelines
- Construction to start on town square project in Leander
- American Airlines, Qatar Will Split Revenue on Some Flights
- Airline, Cruise Stocks Pummeled on Fear of Spreading Virus
- Leaders: 2020 Forecast Is Rosy for Border Trade With Mexico
- Secretary Cascos reminds Texas businesses of filing deadline
- Rise of natural gas leads to reduction in CO2 emissions
- Permian support grows for plan to eliminate routine flaring
- Seven of top-8 oil producing counties are in Permian
- Wichita Falls is seeing an increase in home construction
- Here’s how high home prices, short supply and flawed appraisals are hurting North Texans
- Study: Houston ranked among top cities with lowest price-to-rent ratios in the country
- New ‘crystal clear lagoon’ to open in Rosharon’s Sierra Vista development
- To Reduce Debt, Cumulus Considers Selling 250 Tower Sites.
- Southwest Research Institute Sees Year of Record Growth
- Office Tower’s Sale Latest New Development Along East Commerce
- Agreement Leads to Changes at Insurer Argo Group, Starting at the Top
- New landowner report shows energy, growth trends in West Texas
- Austin boot company Tecovas raises $15 million
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Ex-Hidalgo County Assistant DA Arrested in Migrant Client Solicitation Case
- Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Foundation pays off mortgage of fallen Corpus Christ police officer
- More details on 2-year-old’s fatal fall in septic tank
- Missing 8-month-old girl and mother found safe after AMBER Alert issued, Mesquite police say
- Woman killed after car goes over Crosstown Expressway overpass in Corpus Christi
- Family escapes uninjured in Northwest Austin house explosion
- Suspect jailed after homeless camp shooting in Austin
- Woman Pregnant With Twins, 7-Year-Old Son Die in Car Crash
- Wyoming Patrol: Texas Man Dies After Jumping From Vehicle
- ‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ Endures Blows From Wrecking Ball
- 7 Injured in Shooting at Houston Flea Market, more
- Dallas Lawyer Gets 5 Years in Louisiana for Beating Woman
- Ector Co. ISD police arrest 3 men after assaulting officer
- Odessa: Second teenager arrested in connection to Parkway Inn death
- Odessa off-duty police officer is involved in shooting, more
- 3 men arrested after report of suspicious person near Odessa High School
- Man takes, uses elderly woman’s credit cards after helping her move
- Wichita Falls Burglar Left a Bible Behind With His Name in It
- Wichita Falls Man Indicted After Punching Two-Month-Old Baby
- Horse Caught Running Down Highway 287 in Wichita Falls
- Burkburnett man behind bars for threatening people with axe, knife
- Report: Trio of Abilene teens arrested for robbing shopper at gunpoint after he left store
- 5 vehicles vandalized at south Abilene apartment complex, including sand in gas tank
- Brother, sister indicted for having sex with each other
- Crews battled grass fire in Sweetwater
- Abilene police arrest man who pushed shopping cart with $1,962 worth of items out store
- Video shows “transgender” teen beaten by a classmate in Alpine VIDEO
- Lubbock police makes arrest in connection to City Bank robbery
- Lubbock Man Who Was Shot by Police Receives 15-Year Sentence
- DPS says man arrested who swallowed meth after police chase
- Fierro sentenced to 40 years for July slaying in West Lubbock
- Lubbock Burglar Writes “Deez Nuttz” After Stealing From House
- Lubbock man indicted for sex with underage girl
- Lubbock’s Sinclair dinosaur was shot – same dinosaur that was vandalized before – damned dino haters. Must be Trump’s fault!
- 1 hospitalized after Lubbock house fire
- Texas Rangers investigating police officer-involved shooting in Levelland
- Texas man sentenced to 15 years in prison after 17th DWI conviction
- 5-year-old shot, teen missing in northwest Houston
- Driver dead after crashing through apartment fence in northeast Harris County
- Texas company accidentally tears down wrong house VIDEO
- Family saves woman’s life at Lubbock Texas Roadhouse
- One Woman’s Death By Feral Hog Might Not Have Been Caused By The Animal After All
- Texarkana pastor accused of sexual misconduct by 13 people is back in custody
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- Local government
- Austin ISD weighs $1.5 billion budget, considers superintendent exit strategy
- Voters could decide on Austin’s bum camping rules in November
- Failing to yield will now get you sent to court, Austin officials say – ridiculous
- Findings from Austin police racism probe could be weeks away
- Bee County denies reinvestment zone to surprise of wind farm company
- San Patricio County upgrades radio system, gears up for catastrophic incidents
- Sinton ISD eyes $111.06 million bond package
- Early success of San Antonio’s VIA Link prompts citywide expansion plan
- Midland ISD board approves hiring a “chief of staff” – proving the district is overfunded
- Midland: Land swap with MC would allow for drilling at Airpark
- Midland Co. commissioners approves geo-technical road reports and road systems for county
- Wichita County seeks $10 million for renovations at courthouse, annex
- New Wichita County jail about halfway complete
- What is taxpayer’s cost to find out if Wichita County can pay Judge Gossom’s legal fees? – so we still don’t know if Gossom really does what he is supposed to do for his big judicial stipend but taxpayers will end up footing his legal bill.
- Montague County pushing for FEMA fund extension
- Bowie Municipal Airport to receive $2.25 million in improvements
- Buyer approved for Archer County Jail Museum VIDEO
- Abilene ISD rolls out turn around plan for Reagan Elementary
- Abilene ISD construction: Messy negotiations may yield fruit for CTE facility
- Abilene City Council to discuss possibility of new state-of-the-art animal shelter
- Chief Stan Standridge resigns from Abilene Police Department to pursue relationship with Chaplain
- Multi-Purpose Arena officially named “Taylor Telecom Arena” at Expo Center
- San Antonio to test driverless vehicles
- Removal of video from exhibit at San Antonio’s Centro de Artes gallery sparks cries of censorship
- Group Starts Charter Vote Drive to Curb Top SAWS Pay, Tenure
- Hays CISD teacher on leave after berating 4th grade students – and now you know why they are going to college as fragile snowflakes!
- Hale Co. commissioners approve criteria regarding business park prospects
- Harris Co. program sends law firm grads to work with DA’s office
- Houston mayor, HPD, announce new measures to fight violent crime spike
- Audits show questionable handling of confidential informants by Houston police
- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo proposes legal defense fund for [illegal] immigrants – this is what you get when you elect Democrats, insanity
- First rainbow crosswalk being painted in Oak Lawn
- Sales tax plan could deal blow to Round Rock, other cities – boo hoo
- Interim City Secretary Appointed Amid Rio Grande City Scandal
- After penalizing lesbian teacher, Mansfield ISD awards her $100,000, plans vote to ban sexual orientation discrimination
- To fight huge drop in bus riders, DART faces hard choices about who gets service
- ACLU lawsuit seeks to halt anti-abortion ordinances in Texas towns – it is an intimidation lawsuit
- ACLU files scattershot lawsuit against Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn in Texas
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- Colleges & universities
- Former Univ. of Texas tennis coach Michael Center sentenced to six months in college admissions scandal
- MSU PRIDE [homosexual group] proposes bill for greater access to condoms
- Initiatives enhance value of MSU degrees
- Trinity University Blocks Funding for Conservative Speakers Requested by Students
- Athletes From Hit Netflix Docuseries ‘Cheer’ Ready To Take Texas Tech To Next Victory
- Tech partners up to build dream court in memory of Andre Emmett
- New LCU soccer and track facility to create space for athletic expansion
- SMU hosts global symposium on LGBT+ equality and human rights
- HSU: Former dean says Logsdon finances were healthy VIDEO
- Aviation Industry Lives On at St. Philip’s Southwest Campus
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