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Newsreel: A New Chief, Perry Goes East and a Smoking Idea

This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: The Texas Supreme Court gets a new chief justice, Gov. Rick Perry is headed to Maryland and a former Texas attorney general thinks the state might be entitled to billions more in tobacco settlement money.

By Justin DehnSept. 14, 2013, 12:00 p.m. CentralUpdated Sept. 14, 2013, 12:00 p.m. Central

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Newsreel: A New Chief, Perry Goes East and a Smoking Idea

by Justin Dehn, The Texas Tribune
September 14, 2013

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<p><span>This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: T</span><span>he Texas Supreme Court gets a new chief justice, Gov.&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.texastribune.org/directory/rick-perry/">Rick Perry</a><span>&nbsp;is headed to Maryland and a former Texas attorney general thinks the state might be entitled to billions more in tobacco settlement money.&nbsp;</span></p>
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Newsreel: A New Chief, Perry Goes East and a Smoking Idea

Justin Dehn, The Texas Tribune
September 14, 2013

This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: The Texas Supreme Court gets a new chief justice, Gov. Rick Perry is headed to Maryland and a former Texas attorney general thinks the state might be entitled to billions more in tobacco settlement money. 

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