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State Rep. Brian McCall, R-Plano

Brian McCall, a key member of House Speaker Joe Straus' leadership team, won't seek reelection next year

Your afternoon reading.

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison talks the Texas economy, the latest Rasmussen poll and her resignation timetable. Watch the full exchange with reporters Friday morning.

Rick Perry leads Kay Bailey Hutchison by 11 points in a new Rasmussen survey that's out this morning.

Tired of waiting for the state to provide swine flu vaccine locations, The Dallas Morning News took matters into its own hands.

It’s beginning to look a lot like primary season.

Hmm, maybe the Great Burka is right.

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Numbers and text don't mix.

Former VP Dick Cheney is coming back to Texas. He'll be at a Houston fundraiser for gubernatorial hopeful Kay Bailey Hutchison.

One little speech and everybody’s all atwitter.

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Watch Governor Rick Perry's Wednesday speech at the Midland County Republican Women's luncheon, where he claims President Barack Obama is "beyond not caring about Texas."

All-star Dallas Morning News journalists Lee Hancock and Courtney Perry somehow finagled their way into the apartment of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the army psychiatrist who murdered more than a dozen people at Fort Hood last week.

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