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Opinion May 17, 2012  RSS feed
GOP flap in Texas Senate
     The Texas Senate has generally been a bit quirky. There’s more lately. Follow closely: One Texas state senator emails his colleagues that a fellow senator is spreading untrue rumors about him. The accused senator says the accuser’s accusation is untrue -- which the accuser could have learned had the accuser called him before accusing him to other senators.
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EDITORIAL
Behind closed doors - again
     Last year at this time, we published an editorial, written by staff writer Phil Reynolds, taking exception to Port Aransas ISD trustees going behind closed doors to elect board officers. Trustees did the same thing in 2010, and we wrote an editorial condemning the action as unnecessarily secretive.
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Romney’s top performance
     LYNCHBURG, Va. -- It wasn’t exactly the belly of the beast Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited recently on a picture-perfect commencement day at “the world’s largest Christian University,” but his appearance was a test as to whether the conservative school, founded by the late Jerry Falwell, would embrace a devout Mormon. And Romney passed.
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Dewhurst follows Perry’s lead
     Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is following in Rick Perry’s footsteps. That’s probably a good reason not to follow . Dewhurst’s campaign – he’s hoping to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison as United States senator – announced he will not meet with newspaper editorial boards.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
     Dog park needed I came from a large city, Santa Fe, that has three dog parks – one of which is next to the shelter that benefits both tourists and locals.
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