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John Cornyn

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    May 17, 2012

    Facebook's Top Recipients of Campaign Donations Includes...Ted Cruz?

    With Facebook in the news for all types of political and financial reasons, different groups are looking at where the social-media giant spends its campaign cash. According to influenceexplorer.com, the top recipient of campaign funds from individuals connected to Facebook is Barack Obama, not surp ... More >>

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    November 3, 2011

    Lost Boys: Senate Bill 596

    Village Voice Media asks for your support

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    November 3, 2011

    Lost Boys

    New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

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    September 23, 2010

    Money Rains From the Skies For HISD

    Photo by Margaret DowningTerry Grier: Always nice to announce new money coming in​Houston ISD got a double dose of good news today when it learned it's getting $31.5 million in Teacher Incentive Fund grant money (spread out over five years) to help enable it to continue paying bonuses to teachers ... More >>

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    September 16, 2010

    John Cornyn To Meet With Gays Because...They're Like Fetuses?

    John Cornyn: Affirming "basic human dignity" in odd ways​Texas Senator John Cornyn has scheduled a meeting with Log Cabin Republicans, those GOP stalwarts who care so much about fiscal policy they're willing to ignore who they're associating with.To the surprise of no one, a "family values" preach ... More >>

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    August 20, 2010

    Schoolhouse Rocked: Allegations of Conflicts of Interest at HCC

    If the HCC board room is rockin', don't come a knockin'​Things seem to keep getting uglier over at Houston Community College. On Thursday, the board of trustees reportedly held a closed session to discuss an investigation into possible conflicts of interest by trustee Yolanda Flores and former t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    MoveOn.org Throws a Little Protest in Houston

    Photos by Christopher Patronella, Jr.Moveon.org, throwing signs. See a slideshow from yesterday's protest.​Local members of MoveOn.org held a rally Tuesday taking aim at corporate control in Washington, delivering petition signatures to the Heights office of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and ur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    John Cornyn Has KBR's Back In Any Future Rape Cases

    ​We've written several items about Jamie Leigh Jones, the local woman who is suing KBR over a gang-rape she says happened while she was working for the company in Iraq.The company put up roadblocks to her attempts to resolve the situation and her claims of rampant sexual harassment in KBR camps, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    Time Grudgingly Credits The Chronicle For Its Work On Army-Recruiter Suicides

    Time magazine has done a comprehensive report on the suicides among Army recruiters, a massive piece with plenty of attention paid to the troubles in Houston.As we read it, we wondered -- more and more as it went on -- how they were not giving any credit to the Houston Chronicle, which has been doin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    A Pardon For Galveston's Jack Johnson? McCain's On It

    Senator John McCain is announcing today that he wants President Obama to issue a pardon for Jack Johnson, the "Galveston Giant" who ruled boxing's heavyweight division in the early 20th Century and was convicted of transporting a woman across state lines to get him some.Because McCain is all about t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    T. Boone Gets Ready For His Million-Megawatt March

    General T. Boone Pickens is invading Washington, D.C. tomorrow. Well, virtually. Members of his New Energy Army, numbering somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million strong, are planning to bombard Congress with emails and phone calls urging lawmakers to pass legislation favorable to Pickens' plan to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Allen Stanford And John Cornyn: Best Buds For Sun-Drenched Road Trips

    Photo by Z_deadWho likes to travel with Houston's newest financial-meltdown icon?Senator John Cornyn, that's who.Talking Points Memo has the goods, via legistorm.com, on a "fact-finding trip" (quotes federally mandated by the US Department of Air Quotes) that Cornyn took on Allen Stanford's dime to ... More >>

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    December 18, 2008
  • Blogs

    November 11, 2008

    Veteran's Day In Houston

    Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    The 2008 Voting Charts: U.S. House District 22

    Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Texas Votes 2008: In Chart Form!!

    Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Cornyn's Killing Noriega, Money-Wise

    Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Big Bad John Cornyn Is One Tough Cowboy, Apparently

    Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

  • News

    June 19, 2008

    The DREAM Act Might Be Dead, But These Kids' Hopes Are Not

    They are American in everything but name. They can go to college in Texas and improve themselves. Doesn't matter. At the end of the day, they're just illegal immigrants without social security numbers or futures.

  • News

    May 31, 2007

    Border Fence May Destroy Wildlife Habitat

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2006

    FYI

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2006

    Dear John

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Horse Flesh

    Texas struggles with what to do with its overabundance of Equus caballus, while Europeans wait with open mouths

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Purchase Orders

    Bob Perry writes a lot of checks to politicians, and wields a lot of influence as a result

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Dance Fever

    HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    Got It, Flaunt It

    Those campaign donations aren't buying yard signs and pamphlets

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    Food Fight Hiccup

    Will four felonies spoil Four Families' Hobby deal?

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    Dream Team or Bad Dream?

    Democrats sift pre-election portents for the answer

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Over the Rainbow

    Democrats get their ticket. But can they get the votes?

  • News

    October 11, 2001

    Paying the Price

    Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    A Night in the Tub

    An angel named Grace, a doctor who's a real Trip and fresh gore flooding the ER -- the new Ben Taub gets old quick

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    War Dance

    Alabama-Coushatta Indians are shedding their passive ways in big bets on land claims and casinos. But some fear they could be gambling away their great tribal heritage.

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    In Through the Out Door

    A new law hastens a Brown official's departure

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Fish Stories

    Will a whistle-blower suit snare John Whitmire?

  • News

    August 24, 2000

    Home Again

    Ten years brings the Texas justice system to its senses. Roy Criner's free.

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    Suck-Up Time

    Court on a hot tin roof

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Death Row Show

    The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Sand in Your Craw?

    Make yourself heard

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    July 13, 2000

    This Sand is Your Sand

    At the Village of Surfside, it's not just the beaches that are eroding. It's the Open Beaches Act.

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    Zoned Out

    An A.G.'s opinion only adds to the questions over Houston's special tax districts

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Dubious Deal

    Special tax zones are already stimulating growth-a thriving cottage industry of attorneys, lobbyists, high paid consultants, developers and questionable financial projections

  • News

    July 29, 1999

    Landrush

    The city of Houston is being carved into special taxing districts, promising windfalls for some, financial burdens for others

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker

    Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Border Bound

    Is Elton Bomer the bully who's needed to help colonias -- or just another political grandstander?

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