Boy Scouts in a push for new relevance
The scene on a recent weekend at Camp Strake, a Boy Scout overnight camp in the woods north of Houston, looked ageless and familiar: A group of teenage scouts, their...
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Immigration issue rerouted to state level as national interest wanes
Illegal Immigration, a hot-button populist issue that many experts had expected to top the nation's political concerns this year, has largely vanished from the presidential campaign amid waning interest from...
Bulls, Blackberries and ballistic vests
It's rodeo season in Houston, which means it's time for every self-respecting cowboy to break out his Stetson hat, fringed vest and leather holster bearing a pearl-handled revolver and promptly...
Hopefuls seek notch in Rust Belt
They don't make presidents like they used to, certainly not in Ohio, which during an incredible 60-year stretch was the New York Yankees of presidential politics, sending seven of its...
Democrats dare to dream in long-red Texas
For a long time, being a Democrat in Texas has been a rather lonely affair. In this reddest of red-meat states, no Democrat has won a major statewide office since...
Clinton’s Hispanic bedrock develops cracks in Texas
The scene outside an early-voting station here this week looked encouraging enough for Sen. Hillary Clinton at first: a few dozen of her supporters in this loyal Hispanic stronghold waving...
Texas to free teenage inmate
Quietly closing another chapter in the long-running sex-abuse scandal inside Texas youth prisons, state officials have reversed themselves and decided to grant early release to a 16-year-old girl from the...
Citywide diet? Fat chance
As political strategies go, telling voters they are overweight and need to go on a diet may not be the surest route to re-election. But Mick Cornett, the health-conscious mayor...
Where have the illegal immigrants gone?
The splintered trees, downed branches and piles of wood still littering nearly every neighborhood of this sprawling city two months after a devastating ice storm stand as a testament to...
Jena 6 defendant charged in Texas assault
A defendant in the racially-charged Jena 6 case in Louisiana has been arrested for assault after an altercation at the suburban Dallas high school he is now attending, potentially complicating...