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AUSTIN — Medicaid is the health lifeline for more than 3 million of the most vulnerable Texans, but some Republicans, including Gov. Rick Perry, are talking about opting out of the program as a massive state budget shortfall looms. Perry told Fox News that he thinks Texas could find a “private insurance solution” that would […]

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In a year when voters nationwide were gunning for entrenched incumbents, Texas voters returned the ultimate incumbent to office — a governor who had been in office for a decade and who now has a renewed office lease that runs until January 2015.  Read More:

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With Election Day four days away and counting, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White hopscotched around the state Friday in an effort to rally the troops, get out the vote and seed doubts about the most recent public- opinion poll showing him down 12 percentage points to incumbent Gov. Rick Perry.  Read More:

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AUSTIN — Democrat Bill White said on Friday that he doesn’t think Gov. Rick Perry shows enough respect to President Barack Obama.  Read More:

Texas has always been something of a separate country when it comes to politics and culture. Lately, the state seems to be functioning as its own economic republic. While it hasn’t been immune to the issues plaguing the nation, the housing market, employment rate, and overall growth in Texas are relatively strong. Chalk some of […]

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Gov. Rick Perry already holds the record for the longest serving governor in state history, but today he filed to paperwork to officially become a Republican candidate for an unprecedented third term in office.