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CONROE, TX – The temporary restraining order requested by James Noack against the Montgomery County Democratic Party to remove his Democratic opponent for Precinct 3 Commissioner, Lore Breitmeyer Jones, off the Primary election ballot was denied by visiting Senior District Judge John Delaney Friday morning in the 284th District Court. Initially, Judge Delaney denied the appeal by Marc Meyer to change ...Read More

THE WOODLANDS, TX – James Noack, Montgomery County Commissioner, picked up a last-minute opponent as the filing period drew to a close yesterday. Lore Jones filed as a Democratic Party candidate late on Monday. It is reported that she filed by petition. Allen Blakemore, Noack campaign spokesman, offered these comments. “The Noack Campaign made a simple request this morning to ...Read More

THE WOODLANDS, TX --James Noack, Montgomery County Commissioner, picked up a last-minute opponent as the filing period drew to a close yesterday. Lore Jones filed as a Democratic Party candidate late on Monday. Initial reports indicated that she filed by petition. Allen Blakemore, Noack campaign spokesman, offered these comments. “The plot thickens. First, Democrats say candidate filed by petition then ...Read More

Top Republicans in the Texas House on Monday released a statement saying they no longer want House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, R-Lake Jackson, to serve as speaker. In a joint statement released Monday night, the five GOP members — including four committee chairmen appointed by Bonnen — said, “a leadership change is necessary.” State Reps. Dan Huberty of Houston, Lyle Larson ...Read More

The Texas House advanced a bill Monday that would expand the list of debilitating conditions that allow Texans to legally use medical cannabis. House Bill 1365 would add Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s disease, muscular dystrophy, post-traumatic stress disorder, autism and a bevy of other illnesses to an existing state program that currently applies only to people with intractable epilepsy who meet certain ...Read More

State Rep. Stephanie Klick, R-Fort Worth, was on the floor of the Texas House in 2015 trying to convince her colleagues to open up the state to medical cannabis, and it was not going well. One lawmaker yelled, “This is a bad bill.” Others booed as Klick argued that her bill would legalize medical cannabis in the most narrow way ...Read More

Four years after she authored legislation that legalized the sale of medical cannabis oil to Texans suffering from a small number of conditions, Republican state Rep. Stephanie Klick plans to push to expand the list of eligible patients in 2019. On Thursday, the Fort Worth representative filed House Bill 3703, which would give Texans with multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and spasticity access to medical cannabis ...Read More

AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — Texas Senator for District 31 Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, has been removed from his appointed position as the Chair of the Senate Agricultural Committee due to "lewd comments" made during a radio interview that aired Monday, according to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. The announcement comes just days after the Lt. Gov. announced that Seliger would not chair ...Read More

Shocking. Humiliating. Just plain not great. That's how Democrats describe losing a long-held South Texas state Senate seat to upstart conservative Pete Flores on Tuesday night. The Republican win was historic, the first GOP victory there since just after the Civil War, but the implications stretch far beyond the district. Republicans are now more likely to hold on to a ...Read More