Political

After months of uncertainty, the Texas party primaries will finally be held next Tuesday May 29th, which means the time is running down for early voting, which ends this Friday.  The Texas Secretary of State -- the state's top elections official -- is going around the state spreading the word about the primaries and clearing up some misconceptions.

Being number 1 isn't always a good thing, especially in this category.  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says it got more complaints of workplace discrimination from workers in Texas than from any other state last year. The EEOC says one out of every 10 job discrimination complaints filed nationwide last year came  from Texas.

Lufkin School Board President Trent Ashby and school district officials are blasting a political flyer that accused Ashby of raising taxes to give the superintendent a big pay raise.

The Lufkin/Angelina County Chamber of Commerce is the first Chamber in the state to send a board-approved resolution to Austin expressing serious concerns over what standardized testing is doing to Texas’ public schools, and to school students.

A majority of Lufkin voters have decided to put someone new to elected city politics in the Mayor's chair at City Hall.  Retired Lufkin business executive Bob Brown has won the Mayor's race over two-term incumbent Jack Gorden.  The final vote count was 1,515 for Brown, to 1,061 for Gorden...

President Barack Obama shocked the world today, after announcing that he endorses the right of same-sex couples to marry, claiming his decision as an "evolution" in his views of this subject matter.

President Barack Obama may be running unopposed in most Democratic Party primaries around the country, but he had an opponent in the West Virginia primary. Obama won the statewide vote, but a man who is locked up in a federal prison in Texas, and who did no campaigning, carried eight West Virginia counties.  Absolutely true.

The Canadian oil company that wants to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. has submitted a new application for the project, after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska.