Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-oriented Republican whose 2008 presidential run provided kindling for the Tea Party movement, suddenly finds himself dealing with the blowback: a handful of Tea Party-inspired candidates are seeking to dislodge him in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn would love for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to stay put if she doesn't win the race for governor, but he hasn't told her that to her face.
Votes cast in Maverick County will be counted electronically for Tuesday's primary after some Democrats, including some candidates, pitched in to help the local party pay off a $10,500 debt and avoid a hand-counting of the ballots.
Depending on who you are, deregulation of the Texas electric industry has been a boon or a burden.
Uproar over the evolution curriculum. Divides over religious influences in American history. A board member who called public schools a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion."
“Vote early, vote often,” is the mantra to be heard at voting locations across the county. While early voting officially ended Friday, Election Day Tuesday will finalize primary results for the November ballot.
Dallas school investigators determined last spring that teacher Leslie Michel Finch behaved inappropriately with the 17-year-old boy as early as December 2008, according to district records.
The Republican primary for governor that ends Tuesday – or in a runoff six weeks later – has eclipsed another contest for a prize just as big: an open U.S. Senate seat.
With the population of Central Texas booming, water has become the chief maker or breaker of development. With just about every drop of river water already spoken for, suppliers, especially in Central Texas, are turning to underground water in counties to the east as the next big source
Kay Bailey Hutchison predicted a runoff in the Republican race for governor, telling voters Saturday that "we're going to start all over" and win.
Democratic candidate for governor Bill White urged a complete census count of Texans on Saturday, using the pitch to take a poke at Gov. Rick Perry.
Former President George W. Bush will share a stage tonight with Gov. Rick Perry at a church fund-raising dinner.
Move over, Sarah Palin. You very well could be supplanted as the darling of the Republican Party's right wing.
Help me out here, folks.
Restaurant owner Victor Leal says he is getting much-needed financial support from business people everywhere because they are excited about his candidacy in Texas House District 87.
In the nearly 20 years he has served in the Texas Legislature, Rep. David Swinford has earned $600 a month and has never gotten a pay raise.
With regular voting for the primary election just days away, some Hidalgo County candidates have gone negative on the airwaves.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's Republican primary challenge to Gov. Rick Perry had been billed as the “clash of the titans,” but the only question left for Tuesday's showdown is whether Perry can crush Hutchison's dreams without a runoff.
IN the fall of 2007, nerves were fraying on Wall Street. Billions of dollars promised to private equity firms to finance an epic acquisition spree were threatened, and banks wanted dealmakers to share the pain. Renegotiate the loans, the banks said. The private equity firms disagreed: a deal, they argued, is a deal.
He read 92 history books in one year while in office, was awed by soldiers and military families, and was comforted and sustained by the power of prayer.
Rep. Brandon Creighton had an idea, but he needed help.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison rode a quarter horse with a heavy winter coat down the middle of Texas Avenue on Saturday morning, diligently waving to the thousands of Houston-area families that lined each side of the street.
No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit that generated all the ink and 24/7 cable chatter in Washington. I’d put my money instead on the murder-suicide of Andrew Joseph Stack III, the tax protester who flew a plane into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service employees in Austin, Tex., on Feb. 18. It was a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen.
IN the fall of 2007, nerves were fraying on Wall Street. Billions of dollars promised to private equity firms to finance an epic acquisition spree were threatened, and banks wanted dealmakers to share the pain. Renegotiate the loans, the banks said. The private equity firms disagreed: a deal, they argued, is a deal.
Texas' pardons and parole board has recommended clemency in the case of man who died in prison after he was wrongly convicted of rape.
