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Republican state lawmaker Nathan Macias of Bulverde lost his primary election last month to former New Braunfels mayor Doug Miller by the narrowest margin — a mere 17 votes after the recount.

Macias, elected to his first term in 2006 in a campaign bankrolled by voucher advocate Dr. James Leininger, is now suing to force a new election.

Will Ronnie Run?

The quadrennial guessing game is in full swing: will Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle run again or at long last hang up his spurs?

The inscrutable Democrat, a former state lawmaker who was elected to his current post the same year Jimmy Carter won the White House, has confounded would-be successors before.

But speculation about his retirement has intensified in recent weeks.