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Houstonist stayed up half the night glued to our television just to bring you the latest election results, locally, state-wide, and nationally. Let's look at how things went down yesterday. Locally: Much to the mayor's delight, propositions A-H all passed. This means good things for Houston's libraries, parks, police force, airports, etc. Mayor White is keeping the city moving, literally and figuratively. The Chronicle offers complete election results, but we're going to look at a...

So there's good news and bad news for Gov. Rick Perry. The good news: According to a new poll, he should easily win re-election in November if things keep going like they are. The bad news: According to the same poll, a lot of Texans think he's kind of a sucky governor. Ah, politics.

During a campaign stop in Houston yesterday, Gov. Rick Perry announced his plan for fighting crime in Houston: a $10 million effort to coordinate law enforcement efforts among more than 100 agencies in Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria and Galveston counties. The joint operations and intelligence center will put more police officers on the streets, improve local agencies' technology and better link state and local intelligence. "We will not stand idly by as our innocent citizens...

Tom DeLay said today he will withdraw from the congressional race to allow Republicans to run a write-in candidate in November Federal officials are looking into the bus fire that claimed the lives of 23 nursing home residents during last year's Rita evacuation determine whether buses are safe for people with special needs Four penguins and a load of exotic fish died today when the truck carrying them to Moody Gardens overturned on an East...

Looks like the end of the road for Carole Keeton Strayhorn's attempts to get herself called "Grandma" on the November gubernatorial ballot: A state district judge ruled Thursday that the nickname flap was out of her jurisdiction and Strayhorn dropped her lawsuit seeking to officially make herself "Grandma."

Police have questioned a man in connection with the search for a possible serial killer targeting women in Acres Homes Three people were injured when an elderly woman drove her car into a southeast Houston store this morning Carole Keeton Strayhorn dropped her lawsuit seeking to have herself called "Grandma" on the gubernatorial ballot Last night, firefighters called off a search after an hour and a half for a man who reportedly jumped into Brays...

It looks like Kinky's in and Grandma is out on the November gubernatorial ballot: Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams ruled today that Richard "Kinky" Friedman can use his nickname on the ballot, but Carole Keeton "Grandma" Strayhorn can't because her nickname is actually a campaign slogan.

Lists of people who signed petitions to get independent gubernatorial hopefuls Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn were sent to state election officials today so the state can begin a final check of signatures to see whether the two will make it on the ballot. Friedman and Strayhorn each had to collect 45,540 signatures from registered Texas voters who didn't vote in the Republican or Democratic primaries; Friedman ended up with 169,574 and Strayhorn had about 223,000. Both are counting on some of their signatures being invalid, which is why they gathered so many.

Today in funny, during this morning's CNN Live Today reported President Bush inserted his foot in his mouth when, during a televised press conference, he teased a reporter for wearing sunglasses when it was cloudy outside. Bush later learned the L.A. Times reporter is blind. In other news ... >> Texas: Thanks in part to a donation from a Houston oilman who died May 30, democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell has collected $333,212 for...

This year's governor's race may come down to a matter of nicknames — or so Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who hopes to make it on the ballot as an independent candidate, seems to believe. Strayhorn is asking to appear on the ballot as Carole Keeton "Grandma" Strayhorn, reflecting that she's campaigned as "One Tough Grandma" since 1998. It seems all her name changes — she started her political career as Carole McClellan, became railroad commissioner and state comptroller as Carole Keeton Rylander and has since remarried and become Strayhorn — have confused voters, but everyone knows who "Grandma" is:

Judge Sim Lake dropped three charges against Jeff Skilling and one against Ken Lay moments after the prosecution rested its case in the trial of the former Enron executives today A judge assigned to oversee Carole Keeton Strayhorn's lawsuit challenging Texas' independent candidate rules recused himself from the case because he signed Strayhorn's petition to be placed on the ballot for governor The driver of an HISD school bus lost control on the South Loop...

Even though he was elected governor nearly 150 years ago, Sam Houston's name still holds a lot of weight in Texas. Just ask politicians, who love to compare themselves to the Texas hero — especially Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman, who hope to follow in Houston's footsteps by getting elected governor as an independent. "He's our greatest governor," humorist, author and gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman readily tells folks. "I just love Sam Houston," said...

Big news on the gubernatorial trail this weekend: Independent hopeful Kinky Friedman apparently violated the state's open container law when he drank a beer while riding in a St. Patrick's Day parade car in Dallas on Saturday. (OK, it isn't really such big news, but Houstonist can't pass up a chance to use the word "gubernatorial.") Friedman was serving as the parade's grand marshal; at some point during the festivities, it seems someone passed him a can of Guinness and he took a sip. As he explained:

So here's the thing about this year's gubernatorial race: It promises to be intetesting. On the one hand, we have incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who has more than $9 million on hand and hair that's feathered like the wings of a majestic mockingbird, and Chris Bell, a Democrat who observers say needs to build statewide name recognition and only has $100,000 in his campaign chest at this point. And then there are the independent...

Today's gubernatorial primaries are the first real electoral step in determining who'll be the 48th governor of Texas — but it looks like most people won't bother voting. In two weeks of early voting, 3.3 percent of registered voters from both parties cast ballots in the state's 15 largest counties, the Chronicle reports, and officials expect an overall turnout of 13 percent. On the Democratic side, Chris Bell and Bob Gammage are battling it...

A large grass fire is burning near Rosharon, but there's no word yet on whether structures are in danger Charles Victor Thompson didn't get the handcuff key that helped him escape from jail from inside, authorities say FEMA will give a $1.5 million grant to help repair the Lake Conroe Dam, which was damaged during Hurricane Rita Police are looking for a man in a U-Haul truck who is suspected of stabbing his former roommate...

Add another independent to the list of candidates for Texas governor: Carole Keeton "One Tough Grandma" Strayhorn. Strayhorn, who was initially expected to challenge Gov. Rick Perry in the Republican primary, declared herself an independent candidate Monday. That move seems to indicate she didn't believe she could defeat Perry (and his gubernatorial hair, which is feathered like the wings of a majestic eagle) for the Republican candidacy, but Strayhorn said she's running as an independent...

Musician thriller writer humorist politician (?) Kinky Friedman made his bid for governor official yesterday, filing a declaration of intent to run as an independent candidate in 2006 and promising to put "a chill up the spine of every politician." Friedman's unofficial campaign has been under way since February, when he stood in front of the Alamo and announced his intention to run for governor. (By the way, Houstonist thinks the front of the Alamo...

Houstonist favors anything that makes Houston more of a "world-class city" — medical research, the energy industry, NASA and, of course, big-name sporting events. To prove that we really can't get enough sports extravaganzas, Houston will be hosting the 2006 NBA All-Star Game in February. It makes sense: We had the Super Bowl and baseball All-Star Game in 2004, so the NBA obviously felt like it had to get in on the action. This isn't...