Items that make the show stack or upon which I wish to comment or simply news of Texas I think it important to know:
- Draft of new version of HB 2 includes sliding scale for small cities to be included
- When big businesses want to fight their property tax bills, Texas law hands them an easy way, critics say – and yet commercial property owners are carrying the biggest load and are abused the most so, is this “easy way” really easy?
- Could Standardized Tests Become Target in Texas Budget Debate?
- Texas Senate kicks off fight over religious exemptions
- Full-day pre-K backed by business, education leaders – business often sees this is free daycare for its employees without regard to the long term correctness of the policy.
- Abilene family pushing for helmet laws after personal tragedy – their tragedy, stemming from the decision of a free individual, gives no license to restrict the freedom of other free people.
- Everyone wants a piece of the Texas budget. It’s hard to succeed when most of the money is accounted for.
- Common to use the people’s money to placate noisy constituents when budgets are flush
- Bill Compels Counties to Conduct Voter List Maintenance
- Proposed ban on abortion if fetal heartbeat is detected might not survive in Texas
- House considers expanding voting eligibility to felons on parole
- Fines instead of jail time for marijuana possession clears first hurdle in Texas House
- Texas Democrats protest anti-abortion bill, briefly halt hearing
- Founder of Austin’s Bumble testifies in favor of digital sexual harassment bill
- Court decisions have weakened Texas’ open-government laws. Advocates hope that’s addressed this year.
- Herman: Texas lawmaker proposes swap for Capitol Confederacy plaque
- Constitutional Carry on the Ropes in Bonnen’s House?
- Audit: Texas Disabled Youth Program Sees Scaled-Back Care, Issues
- Report: 277,000 Texas voters vied with machine glitches, poor access to polls and other issues in 2018 – what hyperbole from the Texas Civil Rights Project. They call the subjective “lack of a convenient polling place” as problem
- AG Paxton Files Brief with State’s Highest Criminal Court to Defend Texas’ Anti-Revenge Pornography Law
- Texas Ag. Commissioner Miller Rallies Support For USMCA Passage
- Texas Elected Officials React to the Release of Muller Report
- Congressman Arrington’s statement on Mueller report
- Congressman Mike Conaway speaks on Robert Mueller investigation report VIDEO
- The Witch Hunt Is Turning Into A Circus Where Democrats Are Trying To Make Pigs Fly
- The SPLC’s hate map is an outright fraud ‘designed to scare older liberals into writing checks’
- The Justice Department Tries to Correct Chief Justice Roberts’s Travesty
- PRIVILEGE: Blackface and Fake Hate Crimes Are OK as Long as You’re a Democrat
- Dems Cry Foul as Trump Calls for Striking Down ‘Obamacare’
- Former President George H.W. Bush’s office to close Friday
- House fails to override Trump veto of border emergency
- Defense Secretary OK’s $1 Billion for Border Fencing Help
- Central American-Caribbean Caravan of 2500 Heads to U.S. Border
- Asylum-seeker separated from son sues Southwest Key, other shelter
- Hero Mexican Border Cop Killed Investigating Los Zetas Cartel
- Texas service sector growth softens, retail sales unchanged in March
- Plano Kia Car Dealership Accused of Hiding Accident From Customer
- Blighted downtown San Antonio building to become 47-room hotel
- Federal bump stock ban arrives; Central Texas gun stores shrug, Federal ban outlaws bump stocks amid Supreme Court appeal
- A ‘trophy asset’ on Austin’s South Congress Avenue is up for sale
- Houston ship channel getting test runs after petrochemical fire
- Hundreds File Claims in Wake of Texas Petrochemical Fire
- Mother sues Weather Channel for $125 Million after deadly 2017 crash in West Texas
- DPS report: Abilene police sgt. arrested for DWI was speeding, failed field sobriety tests
- East Texas Man Charged With Keeping Mother’s Body Tarped in Front Yard
- 4 Killed, 6 Hospitalized After SUV Crashes in South Texas Running from Cops – all were foreign nationals
- Burkburnett man given 10 years probation for sexual assault of a child
- Merkel police officer, 2 children recovering well after on-duty crash in Abilene
- San Angelo police release surveillance photos of suspects in theft of a firearm case
- Coleman County police chase suspect arrested near Wichita Falls
- Vehicle shot multiple times in south Abilene
- Tulia Police ask help in finding missing teen – found!
- Former Lubbock Coronado High School teacher’s request for reconsideration of plea agreement denied
- State rep. calls for firing of Goose Creek ISD teacher
- State Halts Houston ISD Superintendent Search, more
- Dallas City Council leaves door open for possible moratorium on gas leaf blowers
- ‘You let this man back out on the streets’: Protests at Dallas City Hall as Deep Ellum assault victim speaks out
- Lobbyist reflects on Broadway boom and doing deals at San Antonio City Hall
- In Calif., an Obama-Appointed Judge Protects a Conservative Businessman’s Speech – relates to San Antonio’s ban of Chick-fil-A from its airport
- Austin ISD board strips Confederate moniker, changes Lanier to former student Juan Navarro
- New Braunfels indefinitely bans rental scooters, bikes
- Wichita Falls officials address concerns over ongoing Kemp-Monroe drainage project
- With warmer weather, City of Wichita Falls officials reminds citizens of water restrictions – reservoirs are full yet gov’t restricts use. Evaporation will exceed any savings from restrictions.
- Clay Co. Sheriff voices staffing shortage concerns on Facebook
- Ector Co. commissioners to proceed with jail renovations
- Abilene: New animal shelter, downtown hotel, and more on council agenda
- Howard Co. gets new voting equipment
- Lubbock: City and county team up to clean up abandoned recycling facility on interstate
- UT will be included in federal review of admissions practices
- A&M University San Antonio students OK future sports fee
- TTU Horn Professor To Receive Top Award In Biochemistry
- Texas Tech to host International Arts & Culture Symposium
- Why Texas Tech Says El Paso Needs A Dental School
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