Items that make the show stack or upon which I wish to comment:
- $9 billion school finance plan drops Austin’s tax rate, recapture – there is much to oppose in this plan including that it is not taxpayer friendly.
- House Proposes $6.3 Billion in New Education Spending, $2.7 in Tax Relief
- Sweeping Texas House School Plan Could Clash With Senate Fix
- Governor Abbott Statement On House Bill 3
- Full-day Pre-K, property tax rate cuts in Texas House proposed fix for school finance system
- Rep. Drew Darby Supports School Finance Reform Bill – that’s a very good clue that it is a bad grow-gov’t at the expense of taxpayers bill.
- Texas teacher pay emerges as a sticking point between House and Senate
- Texas Senate passes $5,000 raises for teachers, librarians, more
- Texas Senate Passes First Bill of the Session: A Teacher Pay Raise
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement on the Unanimous Passage of Senate Bill 3
- Rep. Springer files “homestead exemption act”
- Lawmakers take up STAAR over wording of test questions
- Democrat state senator filing bill to halt STAAR test for 2 years – yeah, let’s further put people behind by not measuring how poorly they are doing. He, like many, is more concerned for how scores look for schools and the faculty than for the students.
- Is STAAR too hard on young readers? The standardized test is in lawmakers’ crosshairs again.
- Mayors Continue Opposition to Voter Approval of Taxes
- A Texas legislative session without an abortion fight? Unlikely. – it is a bedrock issue.
- Mental health bill clears hurdle in state Senate, despite opposition from conservative groups
- Conservative groups oppose Gov. Abbott’s push for mental health consortium
- Texas bill would make pot possession civil, not criminal offense
- Coalition seeks to remind Austin of Permian’s importance
- Texas Tech Officials, Alumni Bring Priorities To Texas Legislature
- New bill could criminalize unwanted sexually explicit photos sent online
- Rep. Eric Johnson to File Anti-Corruption Bill in Wake of Latest Dallas Bribery Scandal, more
- Ballot Language Review Bill Gets Hearing
- Proposed Texas Red Light Camera Ban Gains Momentum
- Is Texas driver’s license system ‘despicable’? Here’s what I found in Garland mega center
- Why does Texas’ highest criminal court want state government to be more secret?
- Hemp Farms In Texas? Ag Commissioner Sid Miller Is Among Backers For Legalization
- HD145: Houston voters to decide Tuesday between 2 Democrats for Carol Alvarado’s Texas House seat
- Sen. Cruz Introduces Texas District Court Nominees Before Senate Judiciary Committee VIDEO
- Texas GOP races to shore up the suburbs for 2020
- Wendy Davis says she’s also mulling Texas Senate run in 2020
- Beto O’Rourke calls for ending ‘failed war on drugs’ – fine but his solution seems to be for more to use drugs
- Mark Cuban calls White House speculation in N.Y. tabloid’s report ‘way overblown’
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi riles Texas conservatives with ‘ground zero’ comment
- Nancy Pelosi says Texas Republicans are undermining the U.S. Constitution
- Pelosi says Texas is 2020 `ground zero,′ and UT/TT poll confirms that may be true
- Senate Seems to Have Votes to Reject Trump’s Wall Move
- Border Patrol warns of ‘humanitarian crisis’
- New Facility for Migrants to Be Built in El Paso
- 76K Migrants Entered Through Southwest Border in February — Most in 12 Years, Says CBP
- 55 Migrants Transported to U.S. Hospitals Each Day, Say Feds
- Exxon, Chevron plan to dominate Permian, grow as others cut back
- Executive pay falls at USAA insurance companies
- Texas had 5th most consumer fraud in U.S. for 2018: FTC
- Historic Downtown Cisco building receives Honor Award for Rehabilitation VIDEO
- Midland police officer shot and killed on duty identified, 1 arrested
- Midland confirms internal email, shooting was mistaken identity
- Midland Mayor releases statement following MPD officer’s death
- Tulia police officer indicted by Lubbock grand jury on stalking charge
- Search for Andreen McDonald continues; family and friends are already mourning the missing San Antonio woman
- San Antonio police shoot, kill two suspects in 12 hours
- Parents remember daughter whose body went missing from funeral home
- Madison High principal defends school after off-campus fatal stabbing
- Audio Suggests Crew of Crashed Cargo Plane Lost Control
- San Angelo PD announces arrest in 1986 rape, murder of 83-year-old Dovie Dykes
- Tuesday morning crash kills three, seriously injures two in Clay Co.
- Man arrested on Midwestern State campus for unlawful open carry
- Burkburnett ISD graduate is among the 23 killed in the tornadoes in Alabama
- Abilene police arrest man for striking wife with blender
- Plainview High School TA arrested for drug charges
- Lubbock Co. man admits to one killing in a double murder case
- Lubbock grand jury indicts woman for pepper spraying peace officer serving warrant
- Lubbock bum indicted for burglary of a habitation – bum update
- Preliminary hearing in Lubbock Green Beret’s death pushed again
- Spring Insurance adjuster sentenced for stealing $100,000
- Lockhart High student to be charged with making terroristic threat
- Austin police to review cases in which officers cooperated with ICE, chief says
- Wichita Falls makes push for “bike-friendly” community
- Lubbock Co: More trouble for medical examiner, allegations of mishandling child’s body VIDEO
- Lubbock Co: NAAG Pathology Labs Responds to Allegations in Recent Lawsuit, more
- Lubbock Taxpayers Have Advocates in New County Commissioners
- Mayors Continue Opposition to Voter Approval of Taxes
- Travis County Judge Supports More Power for Officials, Not Citizens
- Stephens County commissioners to hold public hearing for uniform speed limit on county roads
- Petersburg ISD superintendent leaving for job at TEA
- Dallas, Valley View Center owners reach truce that should lead to mall’s demolition by year’s end
- Commission says Dallas Confederate War Memorial isn’t a landmark, clearing way for removal
- HSU: 2019 Outstanding Young Alumni Nominees Honored
- Representatives visit ACU, AHS in ‘Congress to Campus’ program VIDEO
- UT Health San Antonio researchers help identify new genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease
- Nominations Now Open For The 2019 Governor’s Volunteer Awards
- Trinity Univ. Students Invent Pill Bottle That May Make Drug Trials Easier For Patients
- RIP: ‘Brilliant’ Man Who Was an Inventor of the Calculator Dies in Dallas
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