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Is the boiling battle between Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency slowing to a simmer?

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As the dust settled Tuesday, details of the college football kerfuffle-that-wasn't became a little clearer.

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News outlets across the state are likely to be trumpeting a certain Frankenstein refrain this morning. It's, yes, alive — the Big 12 Conference, that is.

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It's summertime in Texas, and things only got warmer this weekend in Dallas as the state Republican party whipped up clouds of hot, thick anti-Washington fervor.

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Get out your streamers and sparkles and red, white and blue (oh, and your cowboy boot raffle ticket, too). It's the state Republican convention!

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Is the race for governor over?

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It's Bill White versus the campaign hydra this week.

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Efforts to contain the oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico finally seem to be making headway, but the government is now warning that the remaining slick may have a mind of its own.