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KVII ABC 7 (Amarillo)
Texas declares emergency amid evacuations and life-threatening floods
...more than 28,400 customers were reported Friday morning, according to poweroutage.us. Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a state of emergency for 88 counties. "As flooding conditions and severe weather continue...
Jamel Valencia
05/03/2024 Online
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Texas Standard Statewide
Molly Cook, Jarvis Johnson face back-to-back elections to fill Whitmire’s old Senate seat
...as gun control, abortion rights, health care expansion and school funding, claiming he has "caved to Greg Abbott too many times." "Senate District 15 needs a principled fighter filled with urgency," Cook...
05/03/2024 Online
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Texas Public Radio
GOP leaders praise UT Austin’s Jay Hartzell as university presidents take heat over protest response
...came from the university’s own president, Jay Hartzell. Across campus, many had assumed that Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the intense show of force on April 24, as he’d been vocal about his opposition to the...
05/03/2024 Online
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oaoa​.com
Landgraf’s LNG committee calls out hypocrisy of feds’ climate policy
...LNG export authorizations are five years old and no longer adequate. In response, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont) established the House Select Committee on Protecting Texas LNG Exports. "Texas...
Odessa American
05/03/2024 Online
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Kurv 710
GOP Leaders Praise UT President For Handling Of Campus Protests
...where protesters have now taken over the main administration building. Republican state Representatives Jeff Leach of Plano and Cody Harris of Palestine took to social media to praise Hartzell’s actions.
05/03/2024 Online
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Rambler Newspapers
Survey of Texas teens reveals distracted driving
May 03, 2024 by SOURCE Texas Department of Transportation As April marks Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the pressing concern over road safety, particularly among young drivers in Texas, takes center...
05/03/2024 Online
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KSAN (NBC) 3 (San Angelo)
Democrats knock Johnson for suggesting George Soros behind campus protests
...theorizing who is behind the college campus protests. "Obviously, I think Soros is part of this," Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said Wednesday on Fox Business. "The FBI should be investigating that too. They...
Mychael Schnell
05/03/2024 Online
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KXXV (ABC) 25 (Waco)
Texans get first crack at electing the people overseeing the state’s complicated property appraisal process
...will insert havoc and political jockeying into the property appraisal process. Before the Texas Legislature created appraisal districts in the late 1970s, the task of assessing property owners’ values fell...
The Texas Tribune, By: Joshua Fechter
05/03/2024 Online
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San Angelo Standard Times
As rhetoric and visuals change for UT protests, so can public perception, experts say
...professor of public affairs and history who is Jewish, last week pushed back at suggestions by Gov. Greg Abbott and others that UT demonstrators were antisemites whose aim was the destruction of Israel. But...
05/03/2024 Online
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KHOU CBS 11 Houston
Here's what you need to know to cast your ballot in the special election to fill John Whitmire's state senate seat and other races.
...Election Day in the Houston area. It's a special election to fill the vacated Texas Senate seat that John Whitmire left to become mayor of Houston. There are also a variety of races to fill spots on the Harris...
05/03/2024 Online
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Dallas Morning News
Dallas looks to reallocate more than $9M in COVID-19 relief funds
...are facing a multi-billion dollar shortfall. Advertisement The city must deliver a plan to the Legislature by November on how it will fully fund the police and fire pension systems by 2055. Ridley asked...
Leah Waters
05/03/2024 Online
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Dallas Express
VIDEO: Sid Miller Campaigns for TX House Candidate Cheryl Bean
...State Rep. Craig Goldman (R-Fort Worth). Bean has been endorsed by Republican leaders, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, while McQueeney has been endorsed by Gov....
05/03/2024 Online
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ktbb​.com
Lack of cannabis regulation sparks debate in East Texas
... about this debate and most of them said they continue to research the issue. State Representative Jay Dean sent KETK a statement saying he is ready to work with his colleagues in the House and Senate to...
05/03/2024 Online
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KWTX (CBS) 10 (Waco)
Pres. Biden addresses campus protests
...for not speaking out on the campus protests - accusing him of being weak on law and order. Senator John Cornyn is a Republican from Texas, "Well, the Supreme Court has said under the First Amendment that...
05/03/2024 Online
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KBTX (CBS) 3 (Bryan)
Governor Abbott expands disaster declaration to Include more Brazos Valley counties amid flooding
...areas attempt to recover from the record rainfall and flooding seen over the last few days, Governor Greg Abbott has expanded the state’s disaster declaration to encompass 59 counties in the Brazos Valley...
05/03/2024 Online
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