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Yao Ming and Bill White photo used in Texans for Perry web video.

The latest Texans for Rick Perry web video gives us an idea of how the campaign will frame Democratic opponent Bill White. But what is Yao Ming doing in there?

State Rep. Debbie Riddle defends the comments she made about minorities and immigration reform.

Riddle vs. Martinez-Fischer, Perry and White on BP, progress on the border and the Aggies get their say.

The Speaker doesn't have anyone studying gambling in advance of the next legislative session, and a leading Democrat says legislators ought to get together on their own to consider the issue.

Did state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, really say minorities were used to entitlements?

The El Paso County attorney wants the state's top lawyer to tell her whether she can issue a marriage certificate to a woman and a biological male who had a sex change operation to become a woman.

Your afternoon reading.

Arch-conservative state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, has two points he’d like to clarify.

State Sen. Kirk Watson's spoof of the governor's coyote adventure ...

Rick Perry and Janet Napolitano: just a couple of old border governors talkin' homeland security.

The Texas Medical Association's leadership body voted this weekend to support vaccinating not just young girls but young boys for the human papillomavirus. But organization officials were quick to note that the vote did not include making such vaccines mandatory, which Gov. Rick Perry tried to do for Texas schoolgirls in 2007.

Your afternoon reading.

The Gulf oil spill that currently spans almost 50 miles wide and 80 miles long is “growing worse by the day“ with “no end in legitimate sight,” Attorney General Greg Abbott said at a press conference this morning.

Stuffed alligators and wolves? A danger to your sleeping infant, according to the Department of Family and Protective Services' new "Room to Breathe" TV and radio campaign.

It’s a good day to stay home and watch TV.