Dallas Morning News Archive
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Dallas Morning News: Perry provides a boost for button sales
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN Staff Writer Pitching himself as the presidential candidate who best knows how to create jobs, Rick Perry has some new ammo: Some online political merchandise vendors credit the... -
Dallas Morning News: Out-of-state university plates find few fans among Texas drivers
Posted on August 14, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN Texas regulators may soon face a Seminole moment in a debate over specialty license plates that fall flat in the land of Longhorns and Aggies. My Plates,... -
Dallas Morning News: Horses worse off since Congress stopped slaughter for meat in U.S., report says
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN WASHINGTON — Horse rancher M.C. Baker says he opposes inhumane treatment of horses — that’s why he believes the federal government was wrong to halt horse slaughter.... -
Dallas Morning News: Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling to help lead committee on spending cuts
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN WASHINGTON — Dallas Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling will co-chair a bipartisan supercommittee charged with proposing at least $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, House Speaker John Boehner announced... -
Dallas Morning News: Rep. Michael Burgess clarifies comment about possible Obama impeachment
Posted on August 9, 2011 | No CommentsWASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess clarified Tuesday that he would not advocate for impeaching President Barack Obama, after he suggested at a meeting that charging the president was a... -
Dallas Morning News: Perry’s A&M transcript is heavy on C’s
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Gov. Rick Perry’s college transcripts from Texas A&M are now available on the Internet — brought to you by the letter C. The... -
Dallas Morning News: Texans see some specialty license plate prices spike
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe price of vanity has shot up in Texas. My Plates, the state’s private vendor for specialty license plates, has significantly increased the cost of two types of its one-year... -
Dallas Morning News: Texas Republicans fall in line on debt vote
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Following concessions from party leadership, Texas Republicans cast aside their reservations to support Speaker John Boehner’s debt-reduction bill, which narrowly passed the House... -
Dallas Morning News: Nearby House ladies’ room no longer just a pipe dream
Posted on July 22, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The women of the U.S. House now have a restroom of their own, a development that female lawmakers from Texas hailed as a... -
Dallas Morning News: Former congressman Martin Frost confesses to solving judge’s photo problem with caper
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsBy TRISTAN HALLMAN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — In the early 1970s, Martin Frost was a hungry young law clerk whose boss, a well-known federal judge, didn’t like some of the...