- Governor Abbott Announces Staff Hires And Changes
- Gov. Greg Abbott asks 500,000 Texas educators to weigh in on preventing next school shooting
- Abbott Announces School Safety And Victims’ Services Research Survey For Educators Across Texas
- Balmorhea State Park closure extended to summer 2020 – incompetence
- Election Official’s Mistakes Worry Primary Voters in Harris County
- Long Lines Frustrate Houston Voters in Black Neighborhoods
- Bexar County’s new voting system ‘crashed’ 3 times, tying up race results, election chief says
- SBOE-5: Fake-Republican Agitator Robert Morrow Makes Runoff for Texas Schools Seat, more
- SBOE-5: Bell-Metereau Leads Democrats, Republicans Headed for Runoff
- Richardson tops Parker in GOP race for Court of Criminal Appeals – sad loss for conservatives
- Austin’s Meachum, Triana win Democrat Supreme Court primaries
- Texas Primary Election Results: Highlights & Insights
- Super Tuesday’s big winners and losers in Houston and Texas
- Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton unseated in GOP primary upset
- Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton concedes Republican primary in surprising upset
- Texas Republican Judicial Primary Race Omitted from the Ballot in Cochran County
- HD2: Rep. Dan Flynn Headed to Runoff Against Challenger Bryan Slaton After Pair’s Third Matchup
- HD25: In Race to Replace Dennis Bonnen, Ro’vin Garrett Will Face Cody Vasut in Runoff
- HD45: Carrie Isaac and Bud Wymore Head to Runoff in Republican Challenge to Rep. Erin Zwiener
- HD47: One vote makes difference in making GOP runoff
- HD51: Rep. Eddie Rodriguez wins Democratic primary for House seat
- HD60: Francis, Rogers headed for runoff in Texas House race
- HD106: Incumbent Patterson Wins GOP Primary for North Texas House District
- HD108: Cattanach claims a victory
- HD108: Joanna Cattanach Wins Democrat Primary for Rematch Against GOP’s Morgan Meyer
- HD132: Former State Rep. Mike Schofield Will Seek to Reclaim Seat in November
- HD138: Lacey Hull Victorious in GOP Primary, Democrats Head to Runoff in Contest to Replace Bohac
- Democrats position for battle in former GOP strongholds in Collin, Denton
- Three Texas House members are heading for runoffs – Flynn, Sheffield & Democrat Harold Dutton
- SD19: Xochil Peña Rodriguez, Roland Gutierrez Land in Runoff in State Senate Race
- SD27: Longtime Texas state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. heads to a runoff
- Election Night was tough for left-wing Democrats in Texas – from Leftwingers!
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Hegar advances to Senate runoff; West poised for 2nd spot
- Democrat Mary “MJ” Hegar Makes Runoff in Crowded Texas Senate Race
- 3 lessons from Texas’ congressional primaries: Incumbency matters. So does Trump. And runoffs galore.
- TX11: San Angelo’s Pfluger soundly wins GOP nod, more
- TX11: August Pfluger Wins Republican Congressional Primary
- TX12: Rep. Kay Granger defeats primary challenger despite $2 million campaign to unseat her
- TX13: Former White House Doctor Jackson Goes to Texas GOP Runoff
- TX13: Winegarner and Jackson expected to face each other in GOP runoff
- TX13: GOP Runoff Pits Winegarner Against Jackson
- TX17: Pete Sessions wins runoff spot in GOP U.S. House race
- TX17: Pete Sessions and Renee Swann Will Go Head-to-Head in GOP Congressional Runoff
- TX19: Incumbent Rep. Arrington Wins Republican Primary, more, more
- TX22: Troy Nehls Heads to GOP Runoff Against Kathaleen Wall, Kulkarni Secures Democratic Nomination
- TX22: Grandson of Late President Bush Fails in Congressional Bid
- TX23: Gina Ortiz Jones Sails Through Democratic Primary, Will Face Runoff Winner Between Tony Gonzales and Raul Reyes
- TX24: GOP’s Beth Van Duyne has wide lead; Kim Olson and Candace Valenzuela headed to runoff, more, more
- TX25: Julie Oliver wins Democratic congressional primary to take on Roger Williams
- TX27: Running in two states, Ricardo de la Fuente wins Central Texas Democratic U.S. House primary
- TX28: Rep. Henry Cuellar Narrowly Fends Off Leftist Insurgent Challenge, more, more
- TX31: Dems Mann and Imam head to runoff; Rep. Carter wins GOP primary
- TX32: Dallas business executive Genevieve Collins wins GOP primary to face Rep. Colin Allred
- Attorney general splits with Trump over US surveillance law
- Food stamp change fuels anxiety as states try to curb impact
- Sen. Cruz Leads Letter Urging Trump Administration to Sanction Venezuelan Military Officials Related to Imprisonment of CITGO 6 Executives
- Sens. Cruz, Cotton, Hawley, Rubio Introduce Bill To Require CFIUS to Reexamine UK Status After 5G Decision
- New DOJ IG Report: At Least Six Terror Attacks in the US by Perpetrators Previously Identified by the FBI
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Dems give Texas to a befuddled party-insider; anoint no one for US Senate; Cuellar beats back AOC & Bernie
- Bernie Sanders supporters in Texas are “pissed off.” But Texas Democrats need them in November.
- Biden Wins Texas Primary in Resounding Super Tuesday Finish
- Joe Biden thanks Texas, Whataburger Nation for the win
- Biden mixes up his wife and his sister
- Stop Gaslighting, Joe Biden Is Still Joe Biden and He’s Not Ok
- Obama’s Crooks Jump on the Biden Train to Save Themselves
- Mike Bloomberg Drops Out, Endorses Biden
- Mike Bloomberg Wasted $600 Million on Failed Presidential Campaign
- Trump: Mike Bloomberg’s Failed Campaign ‘Worst and Most Embarrassing Experience of His Life’
- Bloomberg’s Guns-for-Me-Not-for-Thee Approach Rejected by the American People
- Howard Stern Calls Bernie Sanders ‘Karl Marx Jr.’ Who Can’t Beat Trump
- Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders’ losses
- Watch Jill Biden Protect Frail Septuagenarian Joe from Protesters VIDEO
- Despite Super Tuesday, Warren Sets Town Hall on Saturday in Arizona
- Elizabeth Warren blown out in her home state, finishes 3rd
- Democrats on Tuesday showed their top priority is to beat Trump
- Donald Trump Speaks at Latino Coalition Legislative Summit VIDEO
- Democrat’s Leftward turn problematic, is reform possible?
- AOC, Omar, and the Squad Lose Big on Super Tuesday
- Marxism Chronicles: Diversity vs. Assimilation
- Chuck Schumer Incites Mob Violence Against Two Supreme Court Justices and the Media Are Nowhere to Be Found VIDEO
- Chuck Schumer Is a Thug
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- Border / immigration
- Trump Allies in Americas Block Africans’ Path to US Asylum
- 10-Year-Old Dies in Mexican Border State Cartel Shootout
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- Business
- Chevron leans on Permian to shower $80 billion on investors
- Exxon Outlines Its Steps to Reduce Harmful Methane Emissions
- U.S. crude oil exports soar while inventory grows slightly
- AT&T and Toyota GCs to Federal Courts: Fix Expert Witness Testimony Rules
- Compensation climbs for USAA execs in 2019
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- Coronavirus related
- High-Profile Companies Pull Out of SXSW Amid Virus Outbreak
- Fed Survey Finds Coronavirus Impacting Parts of US Economy
- San Antonio: CDC Planned to Drop Cruise Passengers at Mall
- Sen. Cruz: The United States Must Marshal Every Resource Necessary to Protect Life and Contain the Coronavirus
- Texas universities recall students, clean doorknobs as coronavirus safeguards
- Coronavirus risk abroad has San Antonio area universities yanking 100-plus students home
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Austin: Habitual Offender Escaped Drug Charges Before Assaulting Woman on Congress Avenue
- Ex-Clear Creek ISD teacher gets 6 years in child porn case
- 1 Murder Charge, 3 Deaths Loom Over Durst as Trial Opens
- Brothers Charged With Forcing Texas Teen Into Prostitution
- Man Gets 5½ Years for Lying to FBI in Probe of Texas Attack
- Wichita Falls Fire Department investigating underground fuel leak, lanes blocked
- EZ Rider Midland and Odessa routes shut down due to flooding
- San Angelo: Drowning victim found in Red Arroyo Wednesday morning
- NWS issues flash flood warning for Midland
- Man charged with burglarizing vehicles, possession of narcotics, running from police
- Child, 8, killed in hit-and-run crash during family gathering in Fort Worth
- Fire destroys duplex in west-central Abilene
- Lubbock Police Arrest 3 Men For a Race That Caused Fatal Accident
- Houston man shoots cousin’s brick-throwing boyfriend, police say
- Man Shoots Woman at Texas Cosmetology School, Kills Self
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- Local government
- Midland ISD looks to Greenwood for next CFO
- Boil water notice issued for areas of Big Spring
- Criner will become Midland County’s first newly elected sheriff in 30 years
- Rick Jowers wins during controversial Callahan County Sheriff’s race, plans to reject nomination
- Republican Primary for Lubbock County Commissioner Precinct 1 Not Completely Decided, more VIDEO
- Election Official’s Mistakes Worry Primary Voters in Harris County
- Long Lines Frustrate Houston Voters in Black Neighborhoods
- Bexar County’s new voting system ‘crashed’ 3 times, tying up race results, election chief says
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- Colleges & universities
- HSU World Famous Cowboy Band Marches in Mardi Gras Parades
- Gilbreth’s No. 13 baseball jersey retired by ACU
- TTU Inaugural Research Park Board Meeting Focuses On Progress, Future Goals
- UT announces plan to fire employees guilty of sexual misconduct in most cases
- Texas universities recall students, clean doorknobs as coronavirus safeguards
- Our Higher Education Problem: Serious but Not Hopeless
- $1.7M Donation Creates New Scholarship at St. Mary’s University
- UT student diagnosed with mumps this week, officials say
Pratt’s post for 3/4/2020 – much election wrap-up
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