- Court OKs Texas Winner-Take-All Presidential Elector System, more
- Lawmakers skewer TRS over Indeed Tower lease plan
- Sen. Bettencourt Pledges Legislation to Address Teacher Retirement System Transparency
- Gov. Abbott offers clemency to victims of human trafficking, domestic violence
- Governor Abbott Appoints Four To One-Call Board of Texas
- Texas plumbers look to save plumbing board – silly
- AG Paxton Applauds $ 1.6 Billion Global Settlement with Opioid Manufacturer
- State is closing two prisons for good reasons
- Two More Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Evacuees at Lackland Test Positive for Coronavirus, Bringing Total to Three
- Another ex-CEO of Workforce Solutions Alamo sues over ‘firing’
- I-35′s $7.5B expansion through Austin-area more of a reality after securing full funding
- Coronavirus reporting & political commentary reaches new nadir
- Transcript: Vast Majority of Tarrant Co. Judges Side Against Judge Alex Kim and Voters
- More young Texans are registering to vote. Will they actually turn out?
- Gadfly Joe Donalson knew running for office would be tough. Then he was jailed.
- Processing error sends duplicate ballots to hundreds of Bastrop County voters
- A PAC with close ties to Rick Perry is backing Gina Parker’s campaign to oust incumbent Judge Bert Richardson in the GOP primary. – I back Gina too.
- Harris County Commissioners Question Clerk on Early Voting Issues, Instructions Not to Speak to Media
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- DNC adds Texas to 2020 targets days before Super Tuesday
- Dallas County judge Clay Jenkins endorses Royce West in crowded Senate primary
- MJ Hegar has lapped Texas’ Democratic Senate field in fundraising. How much will it matter?
- TX11 Candidate Interview: Brandon Batch
- TX13: Trump’s Doctor Thought He Had a Ticket to Congress. It Hasn’t Been So Easy.
- TX13: Ronny Jackson, ex-White House doctor, says he put cauliflower in Trump’s mashed potatoes to improve his diet – well that does it, I couldn’t vote for someone who would sneak cauliflower in my food!
- TX13: Establishment Lawmakers Lining Up Support in 13th District Race
- TX24: GOP Congressional candidate wanted to learn more about Dallas’ homeless. Here’s what happened. – typical.
- Sen. Cruz: We Need to Take Every Necessary Precaution to Contain the Spread of the Coronavirus and Protect Lives
- Sen. Cruz on the Senate Floor Defends the Right to Life for Unborn & Newborn Babies VIDEO
- Sen. Cruz Calls Out Activist Judges Working to Undermine Trump Administration’s Policies VIDEO
- Sen. Cruz Announces Staff Updates to Washington, D.C. Office
- Rep. Louie Gohmert one of just four votes against bill to make lynching a federal hate crime – I would have joined him
- Labor Board Finishes Off Obama’s ‘Joint Employer’ Rule
- Mitt Romney jumps in with Coronavirus attack on Trump
- First U.S. clinical trial of investigational drug to treat coronavirus already underway
- The Justice Department Files a Good Brief in the Harvard Racial Preference Case
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Poll shows Biden, Bernie tied for lead among Democratic candidates in Texas
- Poll: Bloomberg May Help Sanders Win Texas on Super Tuesday
- As level of angst among Texas Democrats rises, Sanders and Biden remain neck in neck in new poll
- With an unusually large Democratic field on Super Tuesday, delegate cutoff looms large for some presidential candidates in Texas
- Mike Bloomberg Won’t Spend Money to Elect Bernie Sanders
- Bernie Sanders stokes question for Texas Democrats: How would his nomination affect their down-ballot plans?
- Debatable – a bullet-point summary
- ‘Off The Rails’: Moderators Struggle As 10th Democratic Debate Turns Into Absolute Shouting Match
- Democratic debate: Chaos reigns as shouting match breaks out in South Carolina
- Moderators come under criticism online over contentious debate
- Fracking bans, Medicare For All: Could Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren really win Texas?
- Bernie Sanders uses his magical socialist math to promise ‘virtually free’ electricity in 15 years
- Democratic presidential contenders attack front-runner Bernie Sanders in S.C. debate
- Bloomberg Says He ‘Bought’ The Democratic House Majority
- Bloomberg Refuses to Call Xi Jinping a Dictator, That Raises the Further Question of His China Ties
- Biden: Remember that time guns killed half of the entire United States in just over a decade?
- Ted Cruz has got some news for Joe Biden after Biden says he’ll ‘[make] sure there’s a black woman on the Supreme Court’
- Carville: Elizabeth Warren won’t attack Bernie because she’s worried about being primaried
- AOC Turns Out to Be a Flaming Hypocrite
- ABC News Suspends Reporter On Eve Of Project Veritas Exposure
- Suspended ABC Reporter Will ‘No Longer’ Cover Politics After Admitting ‘Bosses See No Upside’ In Reporting Fairly VIDEO
- Shifting demographics drive GOP nosedive on US West Coast – see: Bertolt Brecht on replacing the people.
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- Border / immigration
- Gulf Cartel Border City Turf War Kills at Least 20 Gunmen, Innocents in Week
- FBI investigating missing Border Patrol union money in El Paso
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- Business
- Governor Abbott Announces New Freshpet Manufacturing Facility in Ennis
- San Antonio churches adapt to a cashless world with new digital offering jars
- Austin’s Vertify expands tech offerings with acquisition
- Goldman Sachs is growing again in downtown Dallas
- Southwest Airlines picks winter hot spot Steamboat Springs for its first seasonal destination
- American Airlines’ stock falls to post-merger low, leading industry’s virus-fueled decline
- NASA leaning towards long-duration flight for 1st SpaceX Dragon mission
- Workers’ pay is rising faster in Dallas than the rest of the U.S.
- Houston spot sold $1.8M in alcohol in December, records show
- Judge approves Vista Bank, Reagor-Dykes settlement
- Getaway opens tiny cabins outside Dallas, hoping people disconnect from city life
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Harris Co. DA: 69 Convicted on Possible False Evidence by Ex-Texas Cop
- 2 Police Officers Hurt, Suspect Killed After Shooting in Georgetown, more
- Man accused of threatening Round Rock restaurant employee with knife
- Appeals court upholds murder conviction in Cedar Park strangling
- Billy Chemirmir faces capital murder counts in deaths of two more elderly women; total indictments at 14
- Missing Caldwell County toddler found alive in East Austin woods
- Demolition continues on Leaning Tower of Dallas; company says process could take weeks
- FBI investigating missing Border Patrol union money in El Paso
- Child, 10, shot by family member at north Harris County apartment, authorities say
- DOJ charges extremists, including 2 from Montgomery County, with targeting journalists, activists
- Cole, associated with recent Lubbock case, arrested in crackdown of violent extremists
- Spring woman convinced a bank she was Tilman Fertitta, police say
- Two fires set in Lubbock public parks in less than a week
- Lubbock police respond to shooting, one injured, near 75th and University, more
- Getaway driver did not know situation was a bank robbery, arrest warrant says
- Abilene PD offering cash rewards for info on most wanted fugitives
- Reward raised to $11k after 262 cattle stolen from Perryton ranch
- 8-year-old boy shot in San Antonio drive-by shooting while unloading groceries from car
- Man sexually assaulted girl for seven years, gave her marijuana and alcohol
- Bicyclist arrested for stolen firearm, false IDs
- 2017 felony drug charge costs Wichita Falls YMCA CEO his job
- Man jailed following hit and run accident of Wichita Falls business
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- Local government
- Bexar County may be the first in Texas to finalize new marijuana vs. hemp testing
- Nirenberg, Wolff want coronavirus evacuees treated at Lackland
- San Antonio Tries Again to Drain San Antonio River at Brackenridge Park
- San Antonio: Centro de Artes Subcommittee Unanimously Approves Censored Video
- On Fair Park land once stolen by Dallas City Hall, hope that a park could finally heal old wounds
- Dallas ISD wants to spend $41 million on racial equity. The details need work – they need to educate students and the rest will take care of itself.
- Harris County Judge Hidalgo Pushes to Use Taxpayer Funds to Cover Illegal Immigrant Service Fees – Harris Co. judge taking advice of Bertolt Brecht?
- Harris County Commissioners Question Trautman on Early Voting Issues, Instructions Not to Speak to Media
- Citizens Organize to Stop Austin City Council’s Destructive Decision
- Transcript: Vast Majority of Tarrant Co. Judges Side Against Judge Alex Kim and Voters
- Lawsuit claims Midland-Odessa transportation isn’t accessible to the disabled
- Midland City Council approves tax abatement for downtown hotel – more socialism-lite from people who claim to be conservative.
- National, state groups support newspaper’s lawsuit against City of Odessa
- Lubbock City Councilman Jeff Griffith Talks Citizens Tower Delay
- Abilene City Council to consider new, larger animal shelter VIDEO
- Abilene Police Chief resigns to pursue relationship just after divorce is final
- Burkburnett releases draft for downtown master plan VIDEO
- Wichita County judge agrees to do more judicial work in the wake of scrutiny, judges’ requests – he needs to pay his own legal bills that came about due to this issue being brought forward instead of saddling taxpayers with such!
- ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Seven Towns Declared “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn”
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Launches Good for Texas Tour: Community College Edition
- Lubbock Christian University to announce 7th University President
- UT limits travel to South Korea amid coronavirus crisis
- Need mental health services at UT San Antonio? You’ll have a long wait, students say
- Coyotes spotted on Rice University campus, students and staffed warned to be watchful – It’s Trump’s fault, his language is encouraging coyotes to go into the city and taunt college snowflakes.
- Former Texas A&M instructor joins Tech School of Veterinary Medicine
- Official Texas Tech office continues to push homosexuality
- Former national security official set to speak at Angelo State Foreign Affairs program
- MSU Texas celebrates engineering week VIDEO
- New high-tech machine to help MSU students with research
- How’s the Intellectual Climate on Your Campus?
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