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Texas Enters 82nd Legislative Session With $15 Billion Shortfall
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – On Monday, the day before state lawmakers are sworn in for the 82nd Legislative Session, Comptroller Susan Combs announced Texas faces a $15 billion budget shortfall. According to...
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Development Considered For Texas Capitol Complex
AUSTIN (AP) – The Texas Facilities Commission has endorsed a proposal to redevelop the Capitol complex with a mix of private development and new state buildings. The commission voted 5-0 Wednesday for...
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Immigration Protesters Take To State Capitol
AUSTIN (KRLD) – Hundreds of people from North Texas and across the state marched on the State Capitol in Austin Tuesday in opposition to tougher proposed state immigration laws. The Capitol steps were...
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Heated Debate On Voter ID Bill In Austin
AUSTIN (KRLD) – Tuesday’s Austin hearing on the Voter ID bill got a little out of hand. The Texas State House Committee on Voter ID was taking testimony from NAACP State President Gary Bledsoe when...
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Education Advocates Rally Outside House Chamber
AUSTIN (AP) – A loud group of parents, teachers and education advocates rallied outside the House chamber in the Texas Capitol to protest a state budget that will cut $4 billion from education. The...
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Texas Teachers Rally At Rotunda Against School Cuts
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) - More than 200 Texas Schoolteachers crowded around the rotunda of the Texas Capitol yet again to protest against education spending cuts. They demonstrated Monday afternoon to...
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Texas Capitol To Get Vietnam War Memorial Statue
HOUSTON (AP) – The first official memorial to honor Texans who fought in the Vietnam War is being readied for a Veterans Day dedication next year on the Texas Capitol grounds in Austin. It’s to be a...
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CBS 11 Sits Down For Exclusive Rick Perry Interview
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s a controversy hanging over the state Capitol — how to improve a $3 billion program approved by voters, with the goal of finding cures for cancer. The problem began when the...
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Senate Approves Rules On Sex Offender Prosecution
AUSTIN (AP) — New tools for prosecutors in cases of sexual assault against children are advancing through the state Capitol. Under a bill approved by the Senate on Tuesday, evidence of prior similar...
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Texas House Committee Approves Abortion Restrictions
AUSTIN (CBS 11 NEWS) — After hours of emotional testimony that stretched late through the night, the Texas House State Affairs Committee approved controversial bills adding new restrictions on...
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State House Ready For Crowd & Abortion Bill Vote
AUSTIN (CBS 11 NEWS) – Thousands of people may converge on the Texas State Capitol once again next week. Next Tuesday the full House is expected to vote on House Bill 2, the bill enacting harsh...
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Ms. Davis Goes To Washington For Campaign Fundraising
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – There are more signs Fort Worth Senator Wendy Davis has her eye on ‘relocating’ to the Texas capitol. Thus far Senator Davis has only been successful raising fundraising...
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Democrat Wendy Davis Officially Enters Gubernatorial Race
State Senator Wendy Davis announced her intentions to run for Texas Governer at the W.G. Thomas Coliseum in Haltom City on Thursday, October 3, 2013. (credit: Stewart F. House/Getty Images) HALTOM CITY...
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Texas Auction Fetches $5K For Christmas Ornament
AUSTIN (AP) – The brightest star on one Texas Christmas tree won’t be at the top. State curators announced Monday that a commemorative 2013 Texas Capitol ornament has sold for $5,176 at auction. The...
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Gun Advocates Mill Part Of Handgun On State Capitol Steps
http://media.dallas.cbslocal.com/CBSDAL_20150113193218983AA.mp4 Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter AUSTIN (CBS 11 NEWS) – In front of the state capitol, gun rights advocates with the group Come and...
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Texas African-American History Memorial Unveiled Amid Protests
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Officials have dedicated a monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol recognizing the contributions of African-Americans in the...
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Funeral Wednesday In Houston For Ex-Texas Gov. Mark White
HOUSTON (AP) — A funeral will be held Wednesday in Houston for former Texas Gov. Mark White, who died over the weekend at age 77. The office of current Gov. Greg Abbott announced White will then lie in...
View ArticleNorth Texas School Districts Fear They’ll Get Much Less Money Than Promised...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – School district leaders in Dallas, Plano and Richardson are sounding the alarm about a key part of the School Finance Reform bill being hammered out at the State Capitol in...
View ArticleTexas Woman Accused Of Spraying Blood, Urine On Capitol Art
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A woman is accused of spraying blood and urine on security guards and paintings of governors at the Texas state Capitol Monday. According to an affidavit, Amber Lynette...
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New COVID-19 Safety Protocols As Texas Capitol Reopens To The Public
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) — The Texas capitol in Austin will reopen to visitors today. After being closed for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Preservation Board set January 4 as reopening day....
View Article‘Should Be Easy To Vote & Hard To Cheat’– Texas Senate & House Republican...
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Senate and House Republican Caucuses held a joint press conference on special session agenda items on Tuesday, August 3 to demand Texas House Democrats get back to work in...
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