Trump Rallies in Dallas as Campaign Marks 1st Year
Donald Trump on Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of his presidential campaign with a rally in Dallas that checked all the boxes for his remarkable White House bid. Full Story
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Texans Enlisting With Pro-Cuba Trade Group
A Washington-based interest group has recruited a coalition of Texas educators and business and civic leaders to help convince members of Congress to eliminate this country’s embargo against communist Cuba. Full Story
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Cosper Wins GOP Recount in Race to Succeed State Rep. Aycock
Texas House candidate and former Killeen Mayor Scott Cosper has won a recount of his narrow victory over Killeen optometrist Austin Ruiz in last month's Republican primary runoff. Full Story
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Lawmaker Wants Federal Investigation of Austin Ride-Hailing Rules
Republican state Rep. Jason Isaac has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Austin's rules for ride-hailing companies, raising concerns that the city's "burdensome regulations" are anti-competitive. Full Story
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Cornyn Warns Democrats Focusing on Wrong Issue in Orlando Massacre
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn expressed concerns Thursday that the Orlando massacre was leading to a push for legislative action that would violate the Second Amendment. Full Story
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After Orlando, Trump and Clinton Talk Public Safety (Audio)
This week on The Ticket: KUT’s Ben Philpott and The Texas Tribune's Jay Root dissect terrorism speeches from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and hear from Democratic strategist Colin Strother on whether Texas is actually in play. Full Story
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Lawmakers Seek Roadmap For Ride-Hailing Regulation
State lawmakers are poised to discuss ride-hailing for the second time in two weeks on Thursday, attention many expect to carry into the upcoming legislative session as some legislators attempt to wrest regulatory power from cities. Full Story
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Against Backdrop of Trump Rallies, Texas Democrats to Gather
As Donald Trump hosts rallies Thursday and Friday in Dallas and Houston, as many as 10,000 staunch anti-Trump Democrats are expected to gather in San Antonio for the state party's three-day convention. Full Story
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ACLU: Texas Health Agency Should "Stop Concealing" Abortion Statistics
The ACLU of Texas is demanding that the Department of State Health Services “stop concealing” abortion statistics for 2014 and make the information public. Full Story
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Trump to Blitz Texas On Two-Day Trip
Donald Trump is coming to Texas. And unlike most Republican presidential nominees, Trump is not dropping in simply to collect campaign cash, with rallies planned in Houston and Dallas. Full Story
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Gov. Greg Abbott Asks Feds for Zika Funding, Guidance
As Texas braces for a possible Zika virus outbreak via local mosquito populations, Gov. Greg Abbott asked federal health officials Wednesday to review the state’s plan to combat the disease. Full Story
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Texas Republicans in Congress Not United Behind Trump
Getting Texas Republicans in Congress to say whether they're backing Donald Trump is a bit like pulling teeth. Luckily, The Texas Tribune's got the skills of a dentist. Full Story
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State Scrambles to Fund Border Security Project
Wiping out the tall stands of Carrizo cane that give drug and human smugglers easy cover along the Rio Grande was deemed a border-security priority by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2015, but the program wasn't funded. Full Story
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Analysis: In Texas, the Loyal Opposition is Dysfunctional
The Texas Democratic Party’s convention lands at a moment when the state’s Republicans are feverishly manufacturing topics for the opposition party to talk about. Will it matter? Full Story
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Lawsuit Won, Texas Moves to Cut Children's Therapy Programs
Texas is finally poised to move forward with budget cuts to a pediatric therapy program for children with disabilities, but opponents of the cuts have vowed to continue putting up a fight. Full Story
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Analysis: An Accidental Libertarian Power Outage in Texas
The most reliable source of third-party candidates — the Libertarian Party of Texas — didn't field contestants in most of the state’s few remaining swing districts. It looks like that’s one problem GOP candidates in the most competitive races won’t have to deal with. Full Story
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Texas Colleges Staying Out of Bathroom Battles
The state's colleges and universities have been largely been left out of the debate over transgender bathroom policies. Over the past decade, most have adopted policies friendlier to transgender students and staff. Full Story
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Border Lawmakers Pressure Bank Over CEO's Trump Support
A group of Democratic state lawmakers from along the Texas-Mexico border is applying pressure to a bank whose CEO is helping raise money for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Full Story
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Texas Lawmaker's Startup Sells Help Shaping Local Policy
Rep. Jason Villalba, a Dallas Republican, is helping launch LightSwitch Solutions, an Austin-based public relations and consulting firm with plans to shape opinion about local policy. Full Story
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Major NAFTA Proponent Among Trump's Texas Fundraisers
As Donald Trump's presidential campaign assembles a fundraising network in Texas, it is turning to a longtime proponent of a historic trade deal with Mexico against which the candidate regularly rails. Full Story
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