Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, has announced that he will run for re-election to the Texas House. Branch, a lawyer with the firm of Winstead, had been contemplating a run for state attorney general if the incumbent, fellow Republican Greg Abbott,...
In his analysis, Wayne Slater, our senior political writer, says Barack Obama's speech was "fundamentally a call for the Democratic family to come home." Obama, Wayne writes, realizes that "there are enough Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters to win the White...