The Des Moines Register poll covered Tuesday through Friday. The results: Romney 24% Paul 22% Santorum 15% Gingrich 12% Perry 11% Bachman 7% According to the Register: If the final two days of polling are considered separately, Santorum rises to second place, with 21%, pushing Paul to third, at 18%.
As the clock strikes midnight, many will be sipping fizzy champagne, kissing strangers standing nearby, or staring at the television watching New Yorkers and Dick Clark ring in the rockin’ New Year. For chefs, these hallowed traditions are rare luxuries – most are confined to their upscale restaurant kitchens, preparing
Emmett Tyrell, a conservative columnist for the Washington Examiner, ruminates today on the success and failure of his predictions for 2012. I know that he is a conservative columnist because one of his predictions was that liberalism would be dead. He also proclaimed the death of crony capitalism. And
The decision to bestow the honor to the SEAL Team Six commander took “just minutes and was a shutout,” according to Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Keven Ann Willey.
Texas Monthly senior editor Michael Hall on why GQ's story about Jerry Joseph, the too-good-to-be-true athlete in Odessa, was one of his favorites of the year.
I’m on record as not being a fan of the Voter I.D. bill and I agree with DOJ that it is discriminatory and not only will it prevent people from voting but in fact is intended to prevent people from voting — most of whom are poor or members of
Readers may have heard that former Texas State Rep Glen Maxey has published an e-book about Rick Perry’s private life. I seldom agree with Mr. Perry about anything, but his campaign’s description of the book as “false internet garbage” seems spot on to me. The Daily Beast today has a
This didn’t get posted over the Christmas weekend: Perry did not qualify for the Republican primary in Virginia. It’s pretty easy to qualify. Candidates need 10,000 signatures of registered voters on petitions, and must also have 400 signatures from each of the state’s eleven congressional districts. Every campaign needs
As most people who follow redistricting know by now, the D.C. district court ruled against the state and Attorney General Abbott, denying the state’s motion for summary judgment and refusing to preclear several state maps. The D.C. Court has since issued its ruling in the case, explaining why it denied
Here is the latest Iowa poll, from the Des Moines Register: Paul 27.5% Gingrich 25.3% Romney 17.5% Perry 11.2% * * * * Perry hit a high water mark of 16% in a previous poll, but since then he has fallen back. No recent poll has Perry higher than
Valero doesn't get a break, Southwest lands a new fleet, and Star Wars fanatics rejoice.
A Houston Army veteran proved himself to be the city's most law abiding resident when he paid a 58-year-old parking ticket Wednesday.
How ’bout NOT them Cowboys? A new national survey by Public Policy Polling says that America now prefers the Green Bay Packers.
What we'd like to get Rick Perry, Warren Jeffs, Willie Nelson, and other prominent Texans for Christmas.
The critics have passed judgment on 2011's best albums and singles, and there's good news for Miranda Lambert, St. Vincent, Beyoncé, Hayes Carll, and two stalwarts of the Denton scene.
The EPA announced new mercury emissions rules that please environmentalists, but the timeline and potential price tag worries industry officials.
U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling advises colleagues to watch Schoolhouse Rock to learn about the conference committee process.
Writer Guy Martin talks to Ted Flato, one half of the visionary architect duo from San Antonio, about the merciless sun, the Texas breeze, and Tommy Lee Jones.
Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson traveled to 75205 and found it to be remarkably similar to Berkeley, CA.
Willie Nelson pens a column for the Huffington Post, stumping for the family farm.
It was a bad year to be a tree in Texas. The drought alone claimed half a billion trees, and now eminent domain threatens a 100-year-old oak planted by one of the founders of League City.
Texas shed roughly 600,000 cattle in 2011, record drop that threatens to reshape the industry.
Meet Lubbock's Chris Due, the “first pin” to be struck by the wild cart.
The news that Rick Perry intends to pad his income by drawing a pension while serving as governor changes Texas politics. Before we learned about his double-dipping, and with his presidential bid looking bleak, it was possible to foresee the end of the Perry governorship, in January 2015.
The stand-up comedian helped record another anti-texting PSA for the Alamo Drafthouse on a recent trip to the theater.
The number of people Texas executes each year is steadily declining as public sentiment in America turns against the death penalty.
Two reindeer ran out onto I-45 during rush hour in Webster.
The Beaumont-raised country crooner, known for the number-one hit "Blanket on the Ground," died of lung cancer at her home in Vidor.
Were you naughty this past year? Do you need to produce a significant holiday present to get a pass out of the doghouse? Maybe a trip for two in January to Yosemite National Park for the 2012 Chefs’ Holidays series would do the trick, especially since two top Texas
Biologists are worried that the U.S.-Mexico border fence adversely impacts endangered species and other animals.
A picture of fifteen Air Force members posing with a metal casket containing a seemingly lifeless corpse has led to an investigation at Lackland Air Force Base.
The morning show dubs the legendary and unique Mexican food restaurant in El Paso one of their “local legends.”
The Dallas councilman and former interim mayor tries to make a municipal case out of controversial call in the Skyline-Southlake Carroll football game.
The Washington Post tries to put a fresh spin on the old red vs. blue divide by studying the voting habits of people who live close to one of the two retail chains.
Four strippers from Abilene are suing their employer in hopes of recouping overtime and unpaid wages they would have been entitled to if they were considered employees instead of contractors.
A Tarrant County College adjunct professor resigned from his post after two Muslim students objected to his characterization of Islam in his Great Religions of the World class.
From the Daily Beast: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, still looking to regain his traction after a series of mind-numbing debate performances (oh, and an awful job as governor), has let the world and Iowa know that he “wasn’t on his game” recently (make that the last four months) because
After stray bullets hit two students at an Edinburg junior high, officials consider erecting a cinder-block wall around the property.
Glenn Beck and Joe Scarborough said if Newt Gringrich wins the nomination, they would rather vote for the Texas Congressman.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talks tough about redistricting, Voter ID, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act at the LBJ Library & Museum in Austin
The Wall Street Journal profiled 96-year-old Lubbock optometrist J. Davis Armistead, who outfitted the iconic musician with his famous specs.
If you take your political cues from your favorite football stars, we may have the Senate candidate for you.
In his latest ad, Perry tries to convince voters that he won’t engage in the “politically correct” ballet danced in D.C.
Thirty feral hogs escaped from their pens at a local meatpacking plant and led animal control officers on a frantic chase.
Khloe Kardashian moves to Texas, haters hate on Matthew McConaughey, and Dr. Phil snips himself.
A three-star Chronicle review for the Melange Creperie trailer and a call to arms in the Press both suggest a tipping point for the industry.
An Austinite’s profane, sarcastic (and NSFW) map of Texas makes its way around social media, prompting laughs and scoffs.
For many in this remote part of Texas, the crossing is convenient, but detractors fear the port entry could compromise security.
The EPA issued a draft report last week linking fracking to groundwater contamination, but this did not cool the industry’s support of the practice.
The disgraced lobbyist apologizes for his treatment of the El Paso tribe, but is it too little too late?
