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The Egalitarian

The student news site of Houston Community College

The Egalitarian

The student news site of Houston Community College

The Egalitarian

This combo of 2015 file photos, from top left clockwise, shows former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, bottom right. Texas doesn’t open the voting in presidential campaigns like Iowa and New Hampshire do, but the 2016 Republican race already feels well underway in America’s largest conservative state. Texas’ plan to hold its 2016 primary on March 1 means that only the traditional two early voting states, along with South Carolina and Nevada, would predate it.

White House race revs up

Will Weissert, The Associated Press
February 26, 2015
In this Jan. 13 photo, young plants stand under grow lamps at the Pioneer Production and Processing marijuana growing facility in Arlington, Wash. Texas is set to join other states in discussing decriminalization during its current legislative session. State Rep. Joseph  Joe Moody, D-El Paso, filed House Bill 507, which proposes decriminalizing possession of small amounts in the state.

Going Green?

Alyssa Foley, Editor In Chief
January 30, 2015
 In this Oct. 19, 2013  photo, flags fly at the Come And Take It San Antonio rally. Long depicted as the rootin-tootin capital of American gun culture, Texas is one of the few states with an outright ban on the open carry of handguns. That could change next year, with an expected push for expanding gun rights from the Republican-dominated Legislature.

Texas weighs allowing open carry of handguns

Jim Vertuno, The Associated Press
December 14, 2014
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