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Texas governor Rick Perry has kept no secrets about playing favorites when it comes to NASCAR, and he'll be cheering along Bobby Labonte's No. 71 stock car from the Texas Motor Speedway at the April 18 Samsung Mobile 500.

Governor Rick Perry today sent a letter to school administrators across the state detailing his efforts to try to access the $830 million in federal funds for Texas schools that Lloyd Doggett's anti-Texas amendment to the federal ...

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The friendly crowd at Clem Mikeska's Bar-B-Q in Temple (across the street from Rylander's Best Hamburgers, if you're looking for political omens) ate it up. Standing on a chair under a mounted set of Texas Longhorns, Perry steered his ...

Drilling emissions in the air in the Barnett Shale; the state says it will install more monitors, but are they enough? And what about the politics in the air? We'll ask our guest, State Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth ...

Saturday, September 4, 2010 (09-04) 10:26 PDT San Antonio, Texas (AP) -- A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S ...

AUSTIN – The Texas Education Agency must begin distributing $10 million to school districts to buy seat belts for new buses, legislative leaders said Friday. The directive comes days after a senator and parent ...

AUSTIN – The state's vanity license plate vendor challenged a legislative leader and a law enforcement group Friday concerned that its new plate designs may pose a safety risk. My Plates spokeswoman Kim ...

McGREGOR, Texas - Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No. 273 slow going. Supporters and well-wishers keep stopping him ...

There are some puzzling disconnects between Texas politics today and the best traditions of our state and nation. Consider the tea party, whose followers call themselves patriots. Yet many Texas tea party ...

Fort Bend Dulles coach Jim Creech knows that sometimes being a great sprinter doesn't translate into success on the football field. That's not the case with Sheroid Evans. Evans is a champion sprinter ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- A governor's spokeswoman says Gov. Rick Perry has been denied a meeting with President Obama when the president visits Fort Bliss on Tuesday. Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says ...

A Texas newspaper reports a man suspected of ordering the assassination of a U.S. consulate worker in Mexico has appeared in federal court in San Antonio . Mexican police have said Jesus Ernesto Chavez ...

POLITICS White wants insurance change Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White says he wants Texas to require companies to get prior approval before raising homeowners' insurance rates. In Dallas on Thursday, he said ...