Texas Politics

• Constitutional amendments passing in early returns

  Proposed constitutional amendments to protect open beaches and to limit government from taking private property for profit-making ventures were among 11 winning voter approval in early returns. Proposition 11 to limit government eminent domain power had more than 80 percent...

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:55pm EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

• Are those Aggies voting against Tier One?

  Of all the counties with major universities, only one seems to be going against Proposition 4, the proposed constitutional amendment to put seven universities on the path of becoming Tier One research institutions. That county would be Brazos, home of...

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:25pm EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

• Rural Texas is voting against Tier One universities

  The early vote coming in shows Proposition 4 to promote the creation of more Tier One universities, including the University of Houston, is failing in most rural counties. However, the proposition has a solid lead in most urban counties and...

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:59pm EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

• Medina questions Hutchison's credentials on abortion

  Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina went on the offensive against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison today in an op-ed she is sending to newspapers. Conservative and pro-choice rarely fall in the same sentence, unless you're referring to "conservative" gubernatorial...

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:36pm EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

• Hutchison questions new poll

  U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign manager went on the offensive today to say the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll that showed Gov. Rick Perry with a 12 percentage point lead in the Republican primary was unreliable. For Terry...

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

• Bill White backs Republican for state House

  No, not the Bill White you're thinking of. That's Bill White, mayor of Houston and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. This is Bill White, chairman of State Finance Commission and treasurer of the Sun City Texas Community Association of...

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:38am EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com

• New poll: Nothing changed in governor's race since June

  University of Texas pollsters have come up with results in the Texas Republican gubernatorial primary that are almost identical to a poll they conducted in June -- Gov. Rick Perry leads U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by 12 percentage points....

  
  

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:56am EST
  by chron.com, MySA.com