Push Junction – Texas Headlines and Press Releases

11 May 2012

• Houston Chronicle: we're not in love with the stripper
• Cruz campaign reports bounce after Palin endorsement
• GOP to Throckmorton Co.: i can haz all your Democrats
• House blocks Obama crack down on gun dealers
• Texas one of friendliest states to launch a business
• Texas Tea Party Energized After Lugar Defeat, Palin Endorsement
• Tea Party in Texas Energized After Lugar Defeat, Palin Endorsement
• Rock legend collects Alamo artifacts
• Former Dallas Mayor won't stay with Obama
• Texas cancer research agency officer quits over funding
• UT's Bill Powers criticized for tuition hike request
• Rail proponents still pushing for $10 billion project
• Stripper hires Gloria Allred, sues Houston Chronicle
• Castro backs Obama's gay marriage move
• Texas House races riding on tea party
• Abbott nixes $655 million bond from Nov ballot
• Early voting starts Monday

10 May 2012

• PR: Vicki Truitt directed to cease fraudulent statements
• PR: Sarah Palin endorses Ted Cruz
• Paul denies desire to disrupt GOP
• Is Texas Next?
• Addison endorses Ron Paul
• Glen Addison ad slams a bug eyed Dewhurst and Canadian Cruz
• Conservative super PAC hangs bull's eye on Dewhurst
• Texas' sales tax revenue up 10.9 percent in April
• Democrats decry Medicaid cuts
• Perry advances budget compact
• UT President could be fired over tuition hike stance
• Texas progressives hire two to counter millions
• Mayor in deep for suing a church turns to the web to beg
• Democrat starts compact to counter Perry's
• Austin re-examines corporate welfare
• Student graduates with perfect attendance...For 13 Years!!
• Too soon to tell if Dewhurst will lose to the Tea Party
• HD-92: Stickland criticizes Fisher's tax raising past
• Texas okays killing Bigfoot, chupacabras and unicorns

9 May 2012

• Senate candidates debate without Dewhurst, again
• Tea party continues to baffle establishment GOP
• City of Dallas employees to see raises?
• Vicki Truitt's Trouble
• WOAI: No More Border Fence to be Built
• Perry praises Lantroop, while reasserting himself
• Unpopular Obama: Texas inmate wins 40% in WV primary
• Federalizing fracking: a bad idea
• Easy Choice for East Texas
• Railroad Commission race: Chisum, Craddick raise most
• Enviros continue assault on West Texas dump
• SA paper issues Straus reelect plea
• The hunt is on for Bigfoot in Texas

8 May 2012

• Gambling devices seized in Amarillo
• Video: Conseco's 'aggressive' pat down released
• Fix-it man Kimbrough called in to right youth-lockups
• Paul makes rare Capitol Hill appearance to bash the Fed
• Texas one step closer to Real I.D. Act
• Friendly poll gives Dewhurst an edge
• Judge tells DA to step down after extortion charge brought
• Texas named leader in commercial real estate development
• Even gas stations are bigger in TX
• Turnabout: Jim Keffer slapped with ethics complaint
• PR: YCT denounce Mark McCaig as a sell out
• John Carona's liberal alliances
• Ever expanding Medicaid is unsustainable
• PR: Trial lawyer front group misfires while attacking Larry Taylor
• Elected Democrat running for Congress under investigation
• Audio: CenTex teacher absences equal up to $22 million
• Perry: Obama to blame for surge in illegal minors
• Breweries prep for next round in alcohol regs fight
• Clayton vies to be first openly gay Republican elected in TX
• He said, He said
• Soros giving $2M to Democratic groups
• Amarillo's Solyndra
• Davy Crockett Letter Being Sold at Auction
• Medicaid costs growing
• Federal court rebukes Abbott
• Texas to get nearly $20M in Medicaid fraud settlement
• Paul supporters are busy mucking up GOP primary

7 May 2012

• Interesting: Texans take American Airlines to the cleaners
• Landtroop ready for Perry endorsement
• Texas Democrats donating millions, but not to fellow Texans
• Abortion activists drown out fetal heartbeats
• Rick Scott warns Rick Perry: ‘I’m gonna kick your rear’
• Democrat Toureilles praises Joe Straus
• TX drivers license rules change to curb illegal immigration
• Tea party evolves from protests to politics
• FWST writer calls 4 point Truitt win over field "romp"
• Video: Quanell X plays the race card for Ron Reynolds
• Cruz chases Paulite juice
• Most GOP Senate races get primary action
• Paul wins delegates
• Lozano: party switch wasn't about electability
• ...the self described conservative Democrat
• Justices remove themselves from Tom DeLay's appeal
• Education commissioner positioning begins
• Busy HD 43 primary
• Joe Pojman defends Straus flip flop
• Michelle Obama coming to Dallas to raise $