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• Legislators may be asked to address Texas pension-fund losses
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  Some government investment funds kept buying toxic stocks, even as they plunged in value.

• Six Texas House members switch votes on bailout bill
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  That count doesn't include any North Texas legislator.

• New Hurst-Euless-Bedford curfew aims to reduce school truancy
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  Truancy costs the schools state funding and deprives students of the chance to learn.

• New house will be built for homeless veteran
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  John Martinek has had more than a few surprises in the last few weeks.

• Palin says debate went well as polls favor Biden
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  Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin on Friday played up her debate performance as polls showed voters judging her Democratic rival, Joe Biden, to be the winner of the only vice presidential face-off of the campaign.

  
• Some facts adrift in veep debate
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  Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday.

• Poll: Who won the VP debate?
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  Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin squared off Thursday night in the only vice presidential debate of the 2008 campaign. Ratings were expected to be strong.

• Senate passes $700B rescue; House votes lured
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  After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened.

  
• Schnurman: As Congress fiddles, the economy burns

  Congress needs to rescue the economy, even if it does bail out some on Wall Street in the process.

• Some moms are asking: Would Palin help us as VP?
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  One group says Palin hasn't shared her positions on working women's issues.

• Biden remains a mouth in motion
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  Democrats see the pros and cons of letting Biden be Biden.

• Scientists unite for science curriculum
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  Scientists from Texas universities on Tuesday denounced what they called supernatural and religious teaching in public school science classrooms and voiced opposition to attempts to water down evolution instruction.

• Eagle Mountain-Saginaw district steps up drug, alcohol testing program
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  A new urine test can detect alcohol use within 80 hours, school district officials say.

• What's your opinion on the bailout situation?
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  The $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan has gone down to defeat in the House.

• Personal seat licenses should mean big bucks for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
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  Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones could bring in more than $1 billion from personal seat licenses and suite sales at the new stadium.

• CEO pay is a real problem, but this isn’t the time to fix it
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  Rescuing the financial system is Crisis No. 1. Curbing CEO pay is a sideshow.

• Watchdog: Read the fine print on satellite-TV contracts
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  With more people turning to satellite TV service, the fine print is always harder to see than the big screen.

• Who do you think won the first presidential debate?
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  The TV audience for Friday night's first debate between rival presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama was expected to rival the record 80.6 million Americans who watched the 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and President Carter.

• Military families pay special attention to debaters
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  Even as the nation's focus is on the United States' stumbling economy, the war and what happens to U.S. soldiers once a new president is sworn into office next year is an issue the election may turn on for some voters.

• Fort Worth officials, residents talk streets, drilling, growth during final town hall session
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  The last session in a series of public meetings draws the biggest turnout.