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Kafka’s Law: `You never look good arresting disabled people ‘
Good morning Austin: Shortly after ten last night, 15 advocates for the disabled and the attendants who serve them, many of them in wheelchairs, were charged with criminal trespass for refusing to...
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Live coverage of Texas Senate hearing on abortion legislation
Statesman legislative reporter J. David McSwane will be providing updates via Twitter from a Texas Senate hearing on abortion regulations.
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The Strangest of Bedfellows: On Celia Israel and the Pastor Protection Act
Good day Austin: Toward the end of Friday’s very long Senate debate on open carry, Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, who opposes open carry, lent his support, out of concern about the potential for racial...
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Joe Basel: They wanna make me a criminal
Good day Austin: I sat with Joe Basel last night in the House Gallery as the Texas House voted to render his behavior a violation of state law. He had a front-row seat he had occupied for some seven...
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For the tea party, it’s Sine Die on a wing and a prayer
Good morning Austin: Below is a Facebook post Sunday from Julie McCarty, head of the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party. That’s McCarty and me and photographer Ralph Barrera in the House Gallery Thursday...
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Bring ’em back! Same-sex marriage opponents call for special session to fight...
Good morning Austin: OK. Admit it. You miss them. Oh sure, when sine die arrived Monday you were happy to see it end, glad to see them go. Until it ended. And they left. And then you woke up yesterday...
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Is Joe Straus too cool? Is Ted Cruz too cold?
Good day Austin: Evan Smith’s interview with House Speaker Joe Straus was fine. Of campus carry, Straus said, “I think the way we did it was fine.” Of using A to F letter grades to evaluate schools,...
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Hola Jeb. Adiós Leticia. ¿Qué pasa, Julián?
Good morning Austin: Jeb Bush is back in political life. Leticia Van de Putte is out. And it would appear Julián Castro’s chances of being the next vice president of the United States are a little more...
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For whom Cecil Bell tolls: On impeaching Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor...
Good day Austin: Once upon a time, Rip Van Winkle went for a ramble in the Catskill Mountains, encountered some little men bowling, took a few nips from their keg and fell into a deep sleep. When he...
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Abbott raises nearly $1 million a day the last nine days of June
Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign committee raised $8.25 million the last nine days of June. That’s very good. Nearly $1 million a day. At that pace, he could run for president. But, to put it in context,...
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Abbott on the Kelly File, Cruz on Hardball, Trump on the Simpsons and Perry...
Good day Austin: Our governor, Greg Abbott, was on the Fox News Channel’s Kelly File last night, where he linked the terrible shooting death of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco last week, allegedly by...
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Abbott in the Apple: ‘Frankly, New York is easy picking for us.’
Good day Austin: Our governor is in New York. This morning, accompanied by his wife and daughter, he rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, kicking off the second day of his two-day trip...
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Live coverage of Texas Senate hearing on Planned Parenthood
Ken Paxton JAY JANNER/AUSTIN-AMERICAN STATESMAN The Senate Health and Human Services Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday on Planned Parenthood’s policies on providing fetal tissue for research,...
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s mugshot released
After concern of a delay earlier Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was booked in Collin County after he was indicted last week on securities violations. His booking photo was soon posted...
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Follow Live: Texas Racing Commission to decide on historical racing
The members of the Texas Racing Commission are scheduled to decide Tuesday whether to repeal historical racing, a form of electronic gambling in which bettors electronically wager on already-run races...
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Ted Cruz on Colbert; Wendy Davis on MSNBC and in Rolling Stone
Ted Cruz was on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. It’s quite good and both come off well. Here’s the full segment. They open with the usual banter. Colbert: Were you surprised the field...
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As Senate boos Cruz, Ted gets lotsa Lege love from Texas Republicans
Good morning Austin: Sen. Ted Cruz may find himself isolated from his Senate colleagues in Washington, but the Texas Legislature is thick with senators and representatives who would like to see Cruz...
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Ten questions: On Patrick endorsing Cruz, the winnowing of the Democratic...
Good morning Austin: A lot has happened in the last week. The Democratic field has winnowed. Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee are out and Joe Biden is not getting in. Hillary Clinton testified before a...
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Follow live: House Human Services Committee hearing on Syrian refugee...
The House Human Services Committee is holding a hearing this morning to receive an update on Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to Health and Human Services Commission Executive Commissioner Chris Traylor...
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Will “a few glorious rips from a blunt” sink Jonathan Stickland?
Good morning Austin: The word of the day is Schticklandschadenfreude. It is obviously a compound variant on schadenfreude – \ˈshä-dən-ˌfrȯi-də\ – a German word meaning taking delight in the...
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