Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has opened trade relations with group of Israeli settlements in the West Bank that neither the United States nor the United Nations legally recognizes.
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Texas lawmakers say more study needed before “hog apocalypse”
Two Texas lawmakers have filed bills after outcry from hunters and meat processors over the state’s approval of a new poison for feral hogs.
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Criminal Justice
In border meeting, Sid Miller suggests distance with Trump on border wall, immigration
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on Thursday left the tough talk on immigration in Austin while he held a historic press conference on one of the country’s busiest international bridges to Mexico.
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Politics
Trump picks Perdue for agriculture secretary, passing over 4 Texans
President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be agriculture secretary, bypassing four Texans who had been seen as candidates for the job.
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Politics
Reports: Most statewide officials in strong financial shape
Most of Texas’ top state leaders tallied some formidable numbers in their latest campaign finance reports.
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Politics
Can you tell real news from fake news? Take our quiz to find out
How good are you at telling real from fake news? Take our quiz and find out.
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2016 Year in Review
Five stories that marked 2016 in Texas politics
It may have been the offseason for the Texas Legislature, but there was still ample news coming from state officials, much of which will reverberate through the legislative session starting in January.
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Politics
Texans Susan Combs, Sid Miller at center of Trump ag secretary speculation
The race to be President-elect Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary is heating up, and two Texans appear to be at the center of it.
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Texas ag chief Sid Miller on social media habits: “I’m not a news organization”
“It’s like Fox News: I report, you decide if it’s true or not,” Miller said Wednesday, responding to a Texas Tribune report about his tendency to spread fake news stories on Facebook.
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On Sid Miller’s Facebook, fake news flows freely
A Texas Tribune analysis of a portion of Miller’s social media history identified 10 postings of demonstrably false, misleading or unsupported information.
