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MyStatesman.com
August 26, 2017
Texas Democrats didn't like it one bit — branding it premature — and the Republican Governors Association chortled and linked to it as quicklyÃÂ ...
CBS News
August 26, 2017
"The other thing that we are focused on right now, we are trying to get in as fast as we can to begin the rescue process," the Texas governorÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
August 25, 2017
THE HURRICANE HARVEY path has led to Texas Governor Greg Abbott to issue a stark evacuation warning as catastrophic weather headsÃÂ ...
Texas Public Radio
August 23, 2017
In the wake of congressional Republicans' failure to pass a health care bill, two governors from different parties are going to bring their ownÃÂ ...
KTRE
August 23, 2017
A Texas official is throwing his support behind a little league team as they work to bring home the Little League World Series title. Gov.
U.S. News & World Report
August 15, 2017
FILE PHOTO: The Texas capitol building, crafted from pink granite, is seen in Austin, Texas September 19, 2012. REUTERS/JuliaÃÂ ...
Business Insider
August 15, 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill that bans insurers from covering abortions, obligating women to pay a separateÃÂ ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
August 13, 2017
The Texas Senate advanced a municipal annexation bill to Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday, the fifth bill sent to the governor's desk during theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 7, 2017
When Centrists Ruled and Democrats Won: Former Texas Governor Dies ... Like many of the Southern governors of the 1980s, he emphasizedÃÂ ...
D Magazine
July 31, 2017
Becoming governor of Texas is hardly easy and it's absolutely not cheap. He's up against an incumbent governor seeking his second term in aÃÂ ...
Governing
December 31, 1999
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday weighed in on the renewed debate over Confederate monuments in Texas, saying that removing them "won'tÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
March 21, 2017
In December, a middle school principal in Killeen, Texas ordered the school nurse's aide to take down a six-foot poster with a biblical quote from the animation special "A Charlie Brown Christmas" that read: "For unto you is born this day in the city ...
mySanAntonio.com
March 21, 2017
Hundreds of constituents turned out to talk to Seliger about concerns, the upcoming legislative session and the state of the Texas economy. While most Governor for a Day celebrations take place in Austin, Seliger said he wanted to listen and talk to ...
Concho valley homepage
March 21, 2017
San Angelo, Tx - Ten Texas communities have been selected to receive the 2017 Governor's Community Achievement Awards (GCAA), one of the mostÃÂ ...
eParisExtra.com (blog)
March 19, 2017
A week ago after half-a-million acres in the Texas Panhandle were ravaged by wildfires that claimed four lives, state officials announced 4,200 large round bales of hay were needed to feed displaced livestock.
Texas Insider
March 16, 2017
The Texas Privacy Act reflects common decency and common sense and is essential to protect public safety. It protects Texas businesses and codifies what has always been common practice in Texas and everywhere else - that men, women, boys and girlsÃÂ ...
FOX 7 Austin
March 16, 2017
The Texas Senate voted to tentatively pass Senate Bill 6 (SB6), commonly known as the bathroom bill. The bathroom bill or "Texas Privacy Act" requires all Texas residents to use the bathroom or locker room according to the gender on their birth ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
March 16, 2017
Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas predict New Mexico State's men's basketball team will reach the NCAA'sÃÂ ...
Dallas News (blog)
March 16, 2017
WASHINGTON - If newly minted energy secretary Rick Perry thinks nuclear waste storage is a political football, then Texas Attorney General Ken...
Altus Times
March 14, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY - The governors of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico are seeking temporary suspension of grazing restrictions for farmers and ranchers because of wildfires.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
March 14, 2017
Roberto De Leon, of Corpus Christi, and Jesus Antonio Garza, of Kingsville, were appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to the One Call Board of Texas. The board oversees "Call Before You Dig" systems in the state. The systems notify underground facilityÃÂ ...
Valley morning Star
March 14, 2017
According to the Texas Governor's Office website, the Texas flag was to be at full-staff yesterday. However, John Wittman, press secretary for the Governor's Office, said the Texas flag had been ordered to half-staff for March 3 to 7 in honor of the ...
Southeast Texas Record
March 13, 2017
AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed three people to the Texas Judicial Council, with two appointments set to expire June 30, 2021, and one appointment set to expire June 30, 2019.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
March 13, 2017
The governors of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico are seeking temporary suspension of grazing restrictions for farmers and ranchers because of wildfires.
My SSnews.com
March 13, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY - The governors of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico are seeking temporary suspension of grazing restrictions for farmers and ranchers because of wildfires.
WLWT Cincinnati
March 11, 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday declared a state of disaster for six counties after wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle. Advertisement. The counties included Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts and Wheeler. Six people died as ...
WCVB Boston
March 11, 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday declared a state of disaster for six counties after wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle. Advertisement. The counties included Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts and Wheeler. Six people died as ...
CattleNetwork.com
March 10, 2017
Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma officials report activity has been brisk, and the efforts are helping save starving cows and give support to ranchers struggling in the aftermath of the fires.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
March 9, 2017
On March 2, 2017, the U.S. Senate voted 62-37 to confirm Rick Perry as the Secretary of the Department of Energy ("DOE").
WEAU
March 9, 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is suspending some permit requirements and transportation restrictions so supplies of hay can more quickly get to ranchers in eight counties in the Texas Panhandle where wildfires this week have burned about 750 square miles.
MyHighPlains
March 9, 2017
Governor Greg Abbott today sent a letter the Chairman of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TXDMV) suspending the permitting requirements, legal height restrictions and associated permit fees for carriers transporting round bales of hay to Carson,ÃÂ ...
KSCB News.net
March 9, 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is suspending some permit requirements and transportation restrictions so supplies of hay can more quickly get to ranchers in eight counties in the Texas Panhandle where wildfires this week have burned about 750 square miles.
Texas Tribune
March 8, 2017
The grant was part of a $1.8 million award Travis County was set to receive from the criminal justice division of the governor's office, which each year allocates $275 million for projects that cater to children, veterans, women and justice systems ...
Texas Tribune
March 8, 2017
23, 2023. Somnath Chilukuri has been hired by Freese and Nichols Inc. as a senior project manager for the Southeast Texas Treatment, Transmission and Utilities Group.
WKOW
March 8, 2017
(AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File). FILE - In this April 17, 2015, file photo, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval sits in his office at the Capitol in Carson City, Nev.
Texas Tribune
March 8, 2017
He got started at a reception at the Governor's Mansion on Monday. With the professors hired under the program standing behind him, he called the group "just as important to the future of Texas as Sam Houston was to the future of Texas in his time ...
EverythingLubbock.com
March 8, 2017
AUSTIN, TX (NEWS RELEASE) - Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Kim Hayes, Hennessey Herrera, Charles Mills, Jordan Myers, and Wayne Sneed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Advisory Board for terms at the pleasure of the Governor. The board advisesÃÂ ...
RGVProud
March 8, 2017
AUSTIN, Texas - Governor Greg Abbott has reappointed Julian Alvarez to the Texas Workforce Commission for a term set to expire on February 1, 2023.
KFDX
March 8, 2017
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has activated state resources to help combat wildfires in the Texas panhandle. In support of local efforts, the Governor has deployed Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid Strike Teams to assist local First Responders. Other stateÃÂ ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
March 6, 2017
Long before Perry was an embarrassingly unsuccessful presidential candidate, and before he was governor and lieutenant governor, he was the Texas agriculture commissioner. He was no stranger to farming but he also arguably was no more expert at theÃÂ ...
Dallas Business Journal
March 6, 2017
"Texas and Nebraska last shared this recognition in 2013, when the Governor's Cup for per capita projects was introduced," Mark Arend, editor in chief of Site Selection, said in a news release.
MyStatesman.com
March 6, 2017
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hosted a reception at the Governor's Mansion on Monday afternoon for several researchers recruited to the University of Texas and other major public universities in the state with the $40 million Governor's University ResearchÃÂ ...
KFOX El Paso
March 6, 2017
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and supporters of the bathroom bill say reports of impending economic turmoil are false, but the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is worried about what the bill could do to El Paso's buddingÃÂ ...
Waco Tribune-Herald
March 4, 2017
The state of Texas continues to flex its muscle in the economic development arena, according to Site Selection magazine. For the fifth consecutive year, Texas has won the trade journal's "Governor's Cup," "an award that is given annually to the top ...
Texas Tribune
March 3, 2017
Draft budgets by both the Texas House and Senate have zeroed out funding for the Governor's University Research Initiative, a project started by Gov.
Texas Public Radio
March 3, 2017
Responding to reports about the personal email account, the vice president's press secretary, Marc Lotter, issued a statement saying that just as other governors had done, Pence "maintained a state email account and a personal email account ...
Waco Tribune-Herald
March 3, 2017
In a brief interview with The Texas Tribune after the announcement, Collier said he filed Thursday morning with the Texas Ethics Commission to run for lieutenant governor. He promised to run a "very policy-oriented, substantive campaign" involving many ...
UT News | The University of Texas at Austin
March 2, 2017
The first of UT Austin's giant Texas flag found its way to the Forty Acres after the 1961 Cotton Bowl. During halftime of the game, Ross Barnett, who was governor of Mississippi at the time, presented a Texas flag to then Texas Governor Price Daniel ...
San Marcos Corridor News
March 2, 2017
Site Selection Magazine has awarded the Governor's Cup annually since 1988, based on new and expanded corporate facilities as tracked by the proprietary Conway Projects Database.
KEYE TV
March 2, 2017
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, left, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson applaud on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.
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