The Playlist: The Compromise From the budget bill to a new university in South Texas, a number of big agreements were...

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Texas Tribune

Why Sheila Jackson Lee Interrupted Darrell Issa: Magner v Gallagher Yvonne Larsen As Mandy Nagy noted in her post on the Legal Insurrection blog, on May 15th the House Judiciary Committee (on which the...

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Big Jolly Politics

MAY 18 / The top-ten graduates at . . . . . . Kingwood High School and Kingwood Park High School have this in common: . . . . . . the gender balance. Two boys, eight girls. This...

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Unca Darrell

The City By the Bay

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Houston's Clear Thinkers

House passes amended CPRIT reform bill The highly watched bill to reform the state’s embattled cancer agency cleared another major hurdle Friday, passing the Texas...

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San Antonio Express-News

The stage was set for a gun bill filibuster Democratic senators laid the groundwork Friday to filibuster a gun bill, but plans changed when Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, opted to pull...

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San Antonio Express-News

Driving permits for undocumented immigrants gets spiked Tea Party-backed Rep. Van Taylor successfully torpedoed a plan Friday aimed at giving undocumented immigrants in Texas illegally the chance...

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San Antonio Express-News

The Evening Brief: May 17, 2013 New in The Texas Tribune •    Budget Leaders Reach Budget Deal: "After...

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Texas Tribune

‘Merry Christmas Bill’ approved Don’t tell the Grinch, but the Texas Senate on Friday passed a bill to allow schools to celebrate winter holidays without fear of...

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San Antonio Express-News

Negotiators back budget deal in wake of education agreement Rep. Pitts Legislative negotiators put the finishing touches on a proposed state budget for the next two years Friday after lengthy,...

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San Antonio Express-News