Chet Edwards News

A recent CNN/Opinion Research poll asked members of both parties about purity: 51 percent of Republicans would rather see their GOP candidates agree with them on the major party issues than stand a chance of beating their Democratic opponent.

When civic leaders and scholars gather to open the Waco Mammoth Site on Dec. 5, plenty of palaver will air about the paleontological wonders of the complex founded on the bones of two dozen or so Columbian mammoths, most victims of a sudden flood or mudslide 68,000 years ago.

The Pentagon's decision to shift the production of Army trucks from Texas to Wisconsin after 17 years caught Texas' elected officials by surprise, raising questions about overconfidence, a loss of political clout and the impact of economic incentives provided the winning company by Wisconsin's Democratic governor.

A newly publicized portion of former Central Intelligence Agency agent and Republican primary candidate Chuck Wilson's rsum reads like, well, a spy novel.

Between 1978 and 1990, the fossil remains of 16 Columbian mammoths were discovered.

Thirty-one years after mammoth bones were discovered in a ravine near the Bosque River, members of the public will take the first tour of the site Dec.

State transportation officials approved spending more than half of $2 billion worth of voter-approved bond money to widen six stretches of Interstate 35 in Central Texas.

The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.

Local Republicans came to praise former GOP county chairman M.A. Taylor, not to bury him, during their Thanksgiving feed Thursday afternoon, but, as usual, Taylor had to play contrarian.

The Texas Department of Transportation voted unanimously Thursday to approve about $2 billion in highway projects funded with proceeds from bonds authorized by Proposition 12, which the state's voters approved in 2007.

The state's two Veterans Affairs regional-processing centers will get some extra help in expediting benefits claims to eliminate a backlog of applications.

Canyon Clowdus thinks Americans "have less freedom and pay more taxes than ever." "We need more John Wayne and Jesus in Washington," the Marble Falls rancher and businessman declares.

While most of the candidates in a six-way Republican congressional primary back a proposal to scrap the Internal Revenue Service and create a national sales tax, Granbury restaurateur Eric Finley says the tax would make the prices on consumer goods and on his menus unappetizing.

Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, and Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Louisiana Republican who spent his undergraduate years at Baylor University, sit on different sides of the political aisle, sharing little beyond their Waco connection.

TFRW in Galveston Drudge loves him some Rick Perry Three Texas congressional races deemed possibly competitive Happy birthday to Rep.

Langston Gardner, 11, of Bryan smiles as he dons a World War II-era combat helmet while riding in the Sunday parade celebrating Veterans Day in downtown Bryan.

Supporters of President Barack Obama being the friendly sorts they are, I wasn't surprised when one of them strolled across the parking lot to greet me, hand outstretched, during the local Organizing for America Wednesday evening bash marking the first anniversary of Obama's election.

From staff reports Several local events and programs are planned across Central Texas today in observance of Veterans Day.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are at Fort Hood where they'll attend a memorial service this afternoon for the 12 soldiers and one civilian who died in the shooting rampage Thursday at the post's Soldier Readiness Center.

By DARREN BARBEE One family needed new clothes for today's memorial service at Fort Hood.