Sarah Palin is coming, Sarah Palin is coming. Gov. Rick Perry was asked during a conference call this afternoon when we'll see the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate stumping for his re-election bid against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey...
Gov. Rick Perry's office today fended off people who say the governor sabotaged a review of whether Texas uses "junk science" in arson cases by mentioning that chief arson-evidence critic Barry Scheck helped former NFL running back O.J. Simpson juke...
Elbows are flying in the aftermath of yesterday's legislative hearing on Gov. Rick Perry's shakeup of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. This morning, former commission chairman Sam Bassett, an Austin criminal defense lawyer, sent reporters an email warning that new...
Add another page to Gov. Rick Perry's handbook on what is and isn't acceptable federal stimulus money: Today, Austin-based OneStar Foundation Inc. was awarded $250,000 in stimulus funds by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The money is...
A spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry says Hosam Smadi's arrest for allegedly trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper is a reminder the country has mortal enemies. "This incident highlights the fact that there are people out there who seek...
The spouse of Dallas energy executive T. Boone Pickens is fighting a 5th Amendment "taking" of a few feet worth of shrub and palm tree height on the back deck of her $35 million home in sunny Southern California. Madeleine...
Here's a fresh item from the Census Bureau that is likely to draw, ahem, comment from the state's senior senator in her bid to unseat the incumbent governor: Texas is now last among the states in the percentage of its...
House Speaker Joe Straus has warned that an increasingly nasty GOP gubernatorial primary contest between incumbent Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison could hurt Republicans, fuel partisan passions and make it harder to close a state budget shortfall...
Democratic candidate for governor Tom Schieffer, who apparently doesn't want to be left out of this week's food fight between Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison, weighed in today with ridicule of the GOP incumbent. Schieffer noted that Perry boasted...
Get a load of this bumper sticker for Houston Mayor Bill White, who's supposedly running for U.S. Senate. Do you see the word "Senate" there? Isn't that a sign that White, a former state Democratic chairman and Clinton administration energy...
Texas House Democratic leader Jim Dunnam today probed Gov. Rick Perry's lead appointee on workforce policy issues about the delicate subject of looming employer tax hikes. Higher rates of unemployment insurance tax would refresh the state's tapped-out unemployment compensation trust...
Add this to the pile of problems facing the new health and human services honcho -- whoever Gov. Rick Perry selects -- after outgoing commissioner Albert Hawkins (right) leaves at the end of this month: Legal services lawyers for the...
Gov. Rick Perry's office said today it's still searching for Albert Hawkins' successor as executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. "We are still accepting applications and interviewing candidates. No decisions have been made," said Perry spokeswoman Allison...
Before Gov. Rick Perry's speech to the Real Estate Council of Austin today, Craig Douglas, the group's president, got on his soapbox. He recited numbers on Austin's declining voter turnout in municipal elections. Last month, only 58,400 people -- 13...
Picture a guy with his right arm in a sling. Wearing an open necked, short sleeve white shirt. Prancing and gesturing. That's Rick Perry, your governor. And judging from a luncheon speech he gave today, he's in full campaign mode...
So I was talking to Gov. Rick Perry's press guy, Mark Miner, yesterday and mentioned I'd be in the air today with Democratic gubernatorial wannabe Tom Schieffer (right). "Bring a map," Miner said, then explaining to yours truly, a dim...
Here's a story I just posted on Tyler Republican Rep. Leo Berman's recent discussions with the Rick Perry campaign about abandoning a long-shot, anti-immigration bid for governor. Berman (at right, in photo of voter ID bill hearing) says he expects...
Gov. Rick Perry, muting his usual criticism, generally praised lawmakers and signed into law a two-year, $182.3 billion budget late Friday after making barely a change. The Republican governor took credit for slashing nearly $290 million of spending, but virtually...
As we foreshadowed in this post, Gov. Rick Perry has signed Dallas Republican Rep. Dan Branch's e-textbooks bill, according to the legislative reporting service Telicon. The measure by Branch (right) encourages school districts to make greater use of online educational...
Gov. Rick Perry, juggling his re-election effort with a lot of tough calls on bills lawmakers sent him in recent weeks, may have an out on a bill about child abuse that's kicked off a firestorm among social conservatives and...
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