Rick Perry News

Back from Palau for a quick layover in Austin to get fresh clothes and, I suppose, check his mail for grand jury subpoenas, Gov. Rick Perry was off to New York this week on another of his coast-to-coast advertisements for Texas and himself.

A grand jury is considering whether Gov. Rick Perry broke the law when he threatened to cut state funding for the public integrity unit of the Travis County DA's office.

Religious liberty is at the very heart of what it means to be an American, yet Texas conservatives and our state's activist pastors have conveniently forgotten that.

Hobe Sound, Fla.: City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito opined that Rick Perry's visit to woo New York businesses to Texas is some kind of "sideshow" .

In a debate I had with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd St. Y I was told, in essence, that the Jews were simplistic.

Gov. Rick Perry announced today the appointment of Coby Ray as the new Texas Tech University System student regent for 2014-2015.

Governor Rick Perry named UT-Austin student Max Richards, a government junior, the student regent for the UT System Board of Regents on Tuesday.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who will be arriving in New York this afternoon for a trip trying to lure businesses to the Longhorn State, offered a Texas-sized take-down of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's record on job creation this morning and challenged him to a debate.

Paul J. Weber brings us news that an U.S. Attorney's Investigation Could Complicate Rick Perry's Prospects, for seeking the 2016 G.O.P. presidential nomination.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy may pose with the American flag, but he refuses to pay court-ordered grazing fees for his cattle.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito came out swinging this evening against Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is planning a trip to New York City this week to try to lure businesses to the Longhorn State.

About 8 million people have signed up for Year 1 of Obamacare, but millions of others are still falling into the law's "coverage gap."

When Rick Perry entered the 2012 race for the Republican Presidential Nomination, we was seen by many conservatives as their last, best hope at halting what seemed like the inevitability of a Mitt Romney victory.

Rick Perry is going all out to present a new and improved version of himself - the swaggering big-state governor of old, with a dash of seasoned wise man thrown in.

Employees and shoppers at a Walmart near Houston were locked down Saturday after authorities confronted a man who had an unknown device and possible weapons nearby.

Earlier this month the progressive media messaging organization launched an online, confidential, three-question survey for Texans: Do you favor legalizing medical marijuana, decriminalizing pot possession, and/or legalization of marijuana for all? This week they sent out their preliminary results - as Phillip Martin, Progress Texas ' deputy ... (more)

A top Texas A&M executive who Governor Perry wanted to be the University's next president has resigned after not getting the job.

"It's sadness, but it's also a kind of fortitude," says Scott Johnson, who will run in Monday's race one year after bombings killed three and injured 260 there.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent a record 14 years in office vanquishing nearly all who dared confront him: political rivals, moms against mandatory vaccines for sixth graders, a coyote in the wrong place at the... Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent a record 14 years in office vanquishing nearly all who dared confront him: political rivals, moms ... (more)

Once the province of activists and stoners, the traditional pot holiday of April 20 has gone mainstream in the first state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana.