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A small group of citizens from Laredo, Jourdanton, Adkins, Pleasanton, Pearsall, and the San Antonio area asked this Examiner to hear their concerns about South Texas politics.

On the Yes! side you have the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Texas chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

A federal court sent a message Friday that the Texas primaries shouldn't be pushed past April because of bitterly disputed voting maps and ordered the state and minority rights groups to spend the weekend back at the bargaining table.

A national environmental watchdog recently ranked Texas' two Republican senators among the country's least environmentally conscious based on their votes during the last congressional session.

The League of Conservation Voters has released their annual environmental scorecard and, boy howdy, did the Texas Republicans of the 112th Congress outdo themselves this year.

The state unveiled proposed redistricting maps, saying some of the parties in that litigation have signed off on at least some of the lines.

Within a few years, that flying object overhead might not be a bird or a plane, but an unmanned drone.

Democrats, who for months have been locked in a brutal battle with Republicans over Texas's once-in-a decade remap, found an enemy among their own on Monday.

However, at least one influential minority group said it would fight the plan. The map would again anchor in Nueces County the 27th Congressional District of U.S. Rep.

A federal judge swiftly rejected a proposed temporary fix to Texas' months-long fight over redistricting on Monday, ordering all sides to keep talking just hours after a compromise was announced by the attorney general and immediately condemned by several minority advocacy groups.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today issued the following statement on the proposed interim redistricting maps for Texas' 2012 elections: "The proposed maps minimize changes to the redistricting plan passed by the Legislature and, as the U. S. Supreme Court required, makes changes only where necessary.

A congressman's lawyer says the Texas attorney general has agreed to a temporary voting map that could keep the April 3 date for primary elections in Texas.

The Navy's new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It's designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation's most difficult maneuvers.

Cruising Through the News: Lotus of Austin named No. 1 in North America; Beasley Mazda partners with Harris Hill Road - Seven Texas members of Congress from Latino, African and Asian ancestry on Friday threatened to appeal any redistricting deal that does not include all the minority groups involved in the lawsuit over the state's political maps.

As final arguments were made yesterday before a Washington D.C. panel of judges, the panel said they were troubled by the defense given by the State of Texas for redrawing political boundaries.

A panel of federal judges said Tuesday that they are troubled and baffled by arguments made by the state of Texas that the Legislature's redistricting maps should be upheld under the Voting Rights Act.

As the battle over Texas redistricting maps continues in two separate federal courts, U.S. Rep.

Juror No. 22 earned the dubious distinction of being the first in Douglas County to run afoul of the judge for "deliberating while distracted." Read more ... But a decision on Sarpy County's three-year contract for two top managers could be delayed if too many questions arise.

The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.

King Citrus, Don Longwell, and Queen Citriana, Tyler Zimmerman, along with the rest of the royal court, wave to onlookers Saturday, Jan.