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Published Saturday, November 14, 2009
AUSTIN -- Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is challenging Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his job, is planning to keep her U.S. Senate seat until after the state's March gubernatorial primary.Hutchison, a Republican, plans to tell Republican women in a ...
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Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009
AUSTIN -- Texas voters on Tuesday passed a proposition limiting the government's eminent domain powers and another creating a fund for more top-tier research universities, along with nine other constitutional amendments on the ballot.Proposition 11 - ...
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Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Republicans wrested Virginia from the Democrats Tuesday in a one-sided sweep of top offices, and New Jersey's unpopular Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine fought for his political life as independent voters swung behind the GOP in elections in ...
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Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009
PORTLAND, Maine -- Gay marriage was put to a vote in Maine on Tuesday in a closely watched referendum that gay-rights activists across the country hoped would prove for the first time that their cause can prevail at the ballot box.Voters had to decid ...
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Published Wednesday, November 04, 2009
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Democrat Bill Owens had an early lead of about 50 percent in a special congressional election in northern New York that has grabbed national headlines in its final days as it highlighted divisions within the Republican Party.Owens led ...
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Published Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for voters to decide 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution, while College Station voters also will decide whether the city should keep its red light cameras.A vote for the ballot measure is a vo ...
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Published Tuesday, November 03, 2009
PORTLAND, Maine -- Bolstered by out-of-state money and volunteers, both sides jockeyed Monday to boost turnout for a Maine referendum that could give gay-rights activists in the U.S. their first victory at the ballot box on the deeply divisive issue ...
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Published Monday, November 02, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama isn't on the ballot. Neither are all members of Congress, nor most governors.But to varying degrees, the outcome of a few disparate elections Tuesday could provide clues about how people -- particularly independen ...
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Published Monday, October 26, 2009
AUSTIN -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison would have to take a pay cut if she's elected governor, but her husband's income, a multimillion dollar investment portfolio and other assets have already contributed to significant family wealth.Hutchison's ...
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Published Sunday, October 18, 2009
AUSTIN -- A proposition that would ban governments from taking Texans' property for private development is last on the Nov. 3 ballot and is getting ample attention from the Republican candidates for governor, farmers and anti-toll road activists.Prop ...
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Published Saturday, October 17, 2009
AUSTIN -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may be waffling about when to give up her powerful job, but a sign came this month that she's serious about leaving the nation's capital to focus on her run for Texas governor: a "sold" sign outside her suburb ...
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Published Monday, October 12, 2009
AUSTIN -- What should be Gov. Rick Perry's time to shine and shore up support for an unprecedented third term has turned lately into a series of missteps and accidents that are rare for such an experienced politician.Whether they are coincidences, a ...
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Published Friday, October 09, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Hussein Obama's long, winding path to the White House was strewn with a mix of personal and social obstacles, victories and defeats, comebacks and come-uppances. A summary of key points in his life, his quest for the pr ...
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Published Wednesday, October 07, 2009
AUSTIN -- U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has received huge contributions in her race for governor, says she wants limits on the size of campaign donations in Texas, where enormous cash gifts are commonplace.Hutchison has received at least six do ...
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Published Saturday, October 03, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Eight months into office, President Barack Obama is moving far more slowly than his predecessor to fill federal court vacancies, leaving liberals waiting for the judiciary to tilt to the left.At stake are precedent-setting rulings on is ...
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Published Saturday, October 03, 2009
CHICAGO -- Businessman Stewart Grill, 75, believes there's waste in Medicare. He's just skeptical that Congress can find and eliminate it without touching what he likes about his government health care plan."The talk of potential savings is a little ...
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