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Perry Won't Veto Virus Vaccinations Bill

A veto almost certainly would have been overridden by Texas legislators, who have questioned the vaccine's safety, efficacy and cost and complained that the governor's mandate would intrude on families' lives. Lawmakers also were outraged that he didn't consult with them before issuing the order.

Source: Breitbart, May 8, 2007

Texas House: We won't force vaccine on schoolgirls

The House of Representatives in Texas has approved by a 6-1 margin legislation that would rescind Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring all schoolgirls to be vaccinated against a sexual transmitted disease.

Source: WorldNetDaily, March 14, 2007

Government red-light runners cost $8,000 in Houston fines

Houston's new red-light cameras nabbed more than 100 government and school vehicles since the enforcement program began last fall, resulting in about $8,000 in fines, police records show.

Source: Houston Chronicle (online), March 3, 2007

Required STD shots worry some parents

Some conservatives and parents’ rights groups worry that requiring girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children.

Source: MSNBC News (online), February 5, 2007

Pledge to Mexican flag featured at Texas school

The principal of an elementary school instructed his students to stand during the recitation of a pledge to the Mexican flag during a diversity assembly recently, and he's been trying to backtrack ever since.

Source: WorldNetDaily, September 22, 2006

FB studies tough provisions aimed at illegal immigrants

Today, the City Council [of Farmers Branch] will discuss possible ways to do that, including prohibiting landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants, penalizing businesses that employ them, making English the city's official language and ceasing publication of any documents in Spanish, and eliminating subsidies for illegal immigrants in the city's youth programs.

Source: The Dallas Morning News (online), August 24, 2006

'China-level' Christian persecution coming

The ruling from the Fifth Court of Appeals said the display of a Bible on public ground in Houston to honor the founder of a mission has to go, not because it was unconstitutional itself, but because it became unconstitutional when a Christian group rallied around it.

Source: WorldNetDaily, August 17, 2006

Game over for toy guns in heart of the old west

Alarmed by rising gun crime in Dallas, named the most dangerous city in America by the FBI, and by shootings nationwide by police of offenders carrying toy weapons, councillors have advanced a plan to ban replica firearms.

Source: Guardian Unlimited (online), August 14, 2006

Hospital to 'kill' sick woman?

An ill woman in Houston could die within days because a hospital ethics committee has voted to take her off life support – this despite the fact the 54-year-old is not in a coma, is not brain dead and wants to go on living, her family says.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 25, 2006

Police look into strip search at school

Police are investigating the strip search of 10 students at Mainland Preparatory Academy.

Source: Galveston County The Daily News (online), January 8, 2005

Schools prohibit Christmas colors

Now a school district has banned the colors red and green from a "Winter Break Party," requiring parents to bring only white plates and napkins.

WorldNetDaily, December 15, 2004

Welfare Fingerprinting

A pilot program for fingerprinting welfare recipients is expected to begin in November (1995, 1996). Persons renewing their drivers licenses are already being fingerprinted.

Source: Houston Chronicle Interactive, August 8, 1996, October 8, 1995

State to use genetic fingerprints

"A computer database is being filled with the DNA information of some criminals. Authorities hope for it to one day be an important crime-fighting tool both on state and national levels."

Source: Houston Chronicle Interactive, July 14, 1997

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