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December 19, 2014
The State of Texas: December 19, 2014
The state could lose 128,000 if oil prices continue to fall, and a breakdown of where that transportation funding will go.
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December 18, 2014
The State of Texas: December 18, 2014
The end of the Kaufman County saga, and El Paso’s murder rate goes up.
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December 17, 2014
The State of Texas: December 17, 2014
Governor Rick Perry’s name might be memorialized on a building at A&M, and Dallas-based attorney Sarah Saldaña is chosen to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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December 16, 2014
The State of Texas: December 16, 2014
Ted Cruz angers his party, and a man camp south of San Antonio is turned into a immigration detention center for families.
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December 15, 2014
The State of Texas: December 15, 2014
A court rules that the state needs to disclose where it gets its execution drugs, and the Condoleezza-Rice-as-next-UT-president rumors are squashed.
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December 12, 2014
The State of Texas: December 12, 2014
TxDOT gets $1.7 billion in funding, and lotto players want to take a game to court.
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December 11, 2014
The State of Texas: December 11, 2014
Lawmakers want to make the “affluenza” defense impossible, and RadioShack continues its slow, painful demise.
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December 10, 2014
The State of Texas: December 10, 2014
Map of the DayNon-discrimination ordinances are a real hip topic these days, and it’s hard to keep up with which city council is doing what. Thankfully, Texas Tribune has a solution for that: a great interactive map showing exactly where such ordinances exists, are being discussed, or aren’t being
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December 9, 2014
The State of Texas: December 9, 2014
The Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on a flag-burning case, and more news of the sputtering oil industry.
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December 8, 2014
The State of Texas: December 8, 2014
TCU and Baylor get snubbed, and SCOTUS will hear the case of Texas’s Confederacy license plates.
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December 5, 2014
The State of Texas: December 5, 2014
More surveillance cameras at the border, and the Ebola task force makes its recommendations.
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December 4, 2014
The State of Texas: December 4, 2014
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals halts the execution of Scott Panetti, and Ebola cost Dallas $155,000.
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December 3, 2014
The State of Texas: December 3, 2014
The outcry against Scott Panetti's scheduled execution, and reclaiming Texas's fast dwindling prairie lands.
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December 2, 2014
The State of Texas: December 2, 2014
Plummeting oil prices weaken parts of the state's economy, and the Lege agrees to pay the $86 million price tag the latest border surge.
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December 1, 2014
The State of Texas: December 1, 2014
Fran and Dan Keller fight for exoneration, and more cities in Texas are considering fracking bans.
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November 25, 2014
The State of Texas: November 26, 2014
San Augustine County is the "hardest county in Texas to live in," and Galveston remains vulnerable to hurricane damage.
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November 25, 2014
The State of Texas: November 25, 2014
The EPA proposes new pollution controls for Texas coal plants, and a mockingbird gets a private jet ride to Texas after being swept away to Minnesota.
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November 24, 2014
The State of Texas: November 24, 2014
Nearly ninety books receive approval from the SBOE, and two earthquakes rock North Texas in two days.
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November 21, 2014
The State of Texas: November 21, 2014
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Texas's same-sex marriage ban case in January.
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November 18, 2014
The State of Texas: November 19, 2014
Funding the continued border surge, and a new report from ERCOT says the EPA's recent clean energy plan to reduce carbon dioxide could mean a 20 percent increase in electricity bills.
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November 17, 2014
The State of Texas: November 18, 2014
Details from the fatal LaPorte accident, and the obsession with Texas tea is in full swing.
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November 17, 2014
The State of Texas: November 17, 2014
School districts seek to buy books not approved by the SBOE, and the Dallas Safari Club's rhino hunt could be off.
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November 14, 2014
The State of Texas: November 14, 2014
Daily RoundupBig Health — Although one would think our politicians hate the idea of super-sized governmental agencies, there is that whole bigger-in-Texas mentality we tout. As such, lawmakers are now looking at creating a “mega-agency” for five of the health and human services agencies “so massive that it would have
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November 13, 2014
The State of Texas: November 13, 2014
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital settles with Thomas Duncan's family, and the book ban drama in Highland Park continues.
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November 12, 2014
The State of Texas: November 12, 2014
Bush 43 thinks his brother, Jeb, should run for president, and Katy, Texas, approves a $58 million high school football stadium.
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November 6, 2014
The State of Texas: November 7, 2014
Details from Rick Perry's pre-trial hearing, and the railroad commission commits to handing out more fracking permits in Denton.
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November 6, 2014
The State of Texas: November 6, 2014
Denton's fracking ban faces an injunction, and universities seek millions for upgrades.
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November 5, 2014
The State of Texas: November 5, 2014
Only seventeen percent of Texans turned out to vote for the state's highest office, and Alex from Target is a marketing ploy.
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November 4, 2014
The State of Texas: November 4, 2014
Election Day is upon us, and Rick Perry's indictment saga takes another legal detour.
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November 3, 2014
The State of Texas: November 3, 2014
The obits for the Texas Dems are already rolling in, and the bullet train from Dallas to Houston sees organized opposition.
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October 31, 2014
The State of Texas: October 31, 2014
Texas is completely Ebola free, and early voting numbers are down.
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October 24, 2014
The State of Texas: October 24, 2014
More early voters have come out than four years ago, and deaths of migrants trying to cross the border is at a ten-year low.
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October 22, 2014
The State of Texas: October 23, 2014
Amber Vinson, the second nurse to contract Ebola in Dallas, is free of the virus.
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October 22, 2014
The State of Texas: October 22, 2014
Image of the dayIt would seem that to East Coast elites, all white Texas politicians look the same (it’s true, they do). Below is a story published yesterday from Talking Points Memo that received more than one twitter mention. Can you spot the problem?Texas By The NumbersGreen Party — Number
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October 20, 2014
The State of Texas: October 20, 2014
The state's voter ID law will be enforced, and the country continues its hand-wringing over Ebola.
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October 17, 2014
The State of Texas: October 17, 2014
The Ebola blame game, and the lawsuit against Jerry Jones is dismissed.
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October 15, 2014
The State of Texas: October 15, 2014
A second hospital worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola, and abortion clinics open again after the Supreme Court intervenes.
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October 14, 2014
The State of Texas: October 14, 2014
Rick Perry has a court date, and what a drop in gas prices means for the Texas Miracle.
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October 13, 2014
The State of Texas: October 13, 2014
Ebola strikes again, and a football weekend Cowboys fans can celebrate.
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October 9, 2014
The State of Texas: October 9, 2014
Thomas Duncan, patient zero in the Dallas Ebola case, has died.
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October 8, 2014
The State of Texas: October 8, 2014
Fever scanners installed in some Dallas schools, and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will fast track the oral arguments for the case of Texas' same-sex marriage ban.
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October 6, 2014
The State of Texas: October 7, 2014
The Dallas Ebola patient's condition is downgraded to critical, and Texas Tech sees another Greek-life scandal.
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October 6, 2014
The State of Texas: October 6, 2014
Six days of Ebola in Texas, and the passing of LareDOS.
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October 3, 2014
The State of Texas: October 3, 2014
More than a dozen abortion clinics will close immediately, and up to 100 people were exposed to the patient with Ebola in Dallas.
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October 2, 2014
The State of Texas: October 2, 2014
How the Ebola patient in America contracted the virus, and the Permanent School Fund reached a value of more than $37 billion.
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October 1, 2014
The State of Texas: October 1, 2014
More details on the case of Ebola in Dallas, and Davis goes on the offensive in the second (and final) gubernatorial debate.
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September 29, 2014
The State of Texas: September 29, 2014
Fallout from the state auditor's report continued over the weekend, and tragedy hits North Texas Central College.
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September 25, 2014
The State of Texas: September 26, 2014
UNT may have to pay back millions to the state, and the Texas Enterprise Fund comes under attack again.
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September 24, 2014
The State of Texas: September 25, 2014
Officials at an El Paso hospital are scrambling after exposing more than 700 babies to TB, and Charles Whitman's rifle is up for sale.
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September 24, 2014
The State of Texas: September 24, 2014
The proposal of alcohol sales at gun shows has been holstered, and the CEO of Livestrong leaves to head up a different bike charity.