WASHINGTON (AP) — So much for bipartisanship.
Day after day of Republican sniping at President Barack Obama and the massive economic recovery bill he wants Congress to pass quickly appeared to get the best of the leader who pledged to govern across party lines and mend old, bitter partisan divisions. In an hourlong prime-time news conference Monday, Obama shot back repeatedly with biting, sarcastic asides about GOP lawmakers who say the bill is too big, loaded with pork-barrel spending and won’t create jobs.

Calling it an “important” issue to citizens of District 8, State Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, vowed to work to keep the so-called “top 10 percent rule” intact during the just-started 81st Texas Legislature.

With $9 billion less to spend during the upcoming biennium than originally projected, State Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, acknowledged Thursday that lawmakers face some serious challenges over the next 140 days.

Henderson and Leon County voters elected new sheriffs Tuesday night, while Freestone County voters re-elected theirs.

South Anderson County voters chose to return longtime precinct 1 constable Larry Bennett to office for a fifth term Tuesday.

Almost 61 percent of Anderson County’s nearly 28,000 registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s general election, according to the county’s top election official.

Anderson County precinct 2 constable Doug Lightfoot won re-election to office Tuesday in the closest of the three county constable races.

By his own admission, the first four years of Greg Taylor’s tenure as Anderson County sheriff “went by really fast.”

As television news anchors broadcast projections that one state after another went to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, local supporters cheered and shouted at Democratic Party headquarters Tuesday night.