Items that make the show stack or upon which I wish to comment or simply news of Texas I think it important to know:
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick compares Nancy Pelosi to a ‘slaveholder’ for her border policy – sounds about right.
- The nondiscriminatory abortion legislation needs to pass; Texas Alliance for Life’s Objection is a Heckler’s Veto
- A reason many Democrats & Leftist passionately hate pro-life legislation
- Rep. Turner’s college campus safety measure passes house
- Commentary: Texas Moves to Legalize Industrial Hemp – fine but it’s not an alternative crop we really need nor is anyone going to get rich growing it.
- Craddick’s bill allows for more officers to enforce vehicle safety standards
- Baker Institute supports decriminalizing minor marijuana possession in Texas – like much of academia, this group at Rice is mostly to the political Left. Last year I took the time to read through the institute’s site more carefully and found most to be far away from conservative and even mainstream Republican.
- This Texas law knocks over $1B off property tax bills – mostly for big business – there is nothing wrong with this law and commercial property owners are carrying the biggest burden already.
- Analysis: Making friends and influencing people in the Texas Legislature
- Following open records lawsuit, state to review handling of day care deaths
- TWC is dodging rules about providing better info on for-profit career schools
- Cornyn lauds Dyess AFB, talks Mueller Thursday in Abilene
- Senator John Cornyn drops in to Dyess for B-21 Raider Bomber briefing VIDEO
- Rep. Cuellar Raises Over $700,000 In Q1, Holds $2.82 Million On Hand
- White House moves to limit a little-used but powerful tool to contain drug costs
- Bernie Sanders to hold rally in Houston
- Texans in Congress warn Trump that cutting aid to Central America will backfire
- Cartel Blockades Bring Mexican Border City near Texas to Standstill
- Gulf Cartel Attacks Federal Police After Gun Seizure near Texas
- Administration Cuts Space for Detaining Migrant Families
- Temporary immigration detention facilities to open in El Paso, Rio Grande Valley
- Border Patrol: Agents rescued migrants abandoned in Sierra Blanca desert
- Texas Adds 22,600 Jobs in March; Unemployment rate unchanged at 3.8 percent
- Rig count plunges from Texas to Alaska, detail
- U.S. drilling rigs pullback shows restraint
- Rebounding East Texas Haynesville shale breaks 2011 production record
- Mills: International energy issues become more complex
- CenterPoint names new CFO
- Citgo’s future ensnared in international feud over Venezuela’s debts
- DuPont’s Pasadena workers vote to unionize, contract talks start soon, union says
- Federal regulator moves closer to approving Brownsville LNG plant
- Feds give final green light for Port Arthur LNG
- San Antonio woman sues Southwest over flight that killed passenger
- San Antonio company creates robots that can combat ‘superbugs’
- Midland falls to third hottest housing market in nation
- Most West Texas 7-Eleven stores to be rebranded as DK stores
- Bed Bath & Beyond, Pier 1 latest retailers to announce store closures
- Lubbock-based City Bank takes steps to offer IPO
- Perfect Game moving national HQ to Hutto
- Alamo Bowl taps energy company CEO as new chairman
- San Antonio’s tech sector growing as Houston contracts
- Dallas tech company with 350 employees sold to financial services software firm
- Southwest CEO calls Delta ‘squatters’ at Dallas Love Field
- Woman sets self on fire as officers serve warrant at Houston home, police say
- North Texas mother reported missing after not picking up child from babysitter
- Maintenance worker finds decomposing body in between mattress and box spring, Houston police say
- Woman mugged in SW Houston Target parking lot; police looking for suspects
- Dallas Medical Examiner: Clark Gable’s Grandson Died of Overdose
- Corrections Officers Fired for ‘Feeling Cute’ Comments on Social Media that Threatened Inmates
- SAPD officer arrested after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend’s lover
- 2nd Man Gets Life in Prison for Role in 2011 Double Slaying
- Retired Army Officer, Felon Gets Prison in Guns Case
- Former Stockyards Rodeo bookkeeper sentenced for stealing $1.3 million
- Worker injured at wind farm near Petersburg
- Lake Travis ISD softball coach sued by student for alleged sexual misconduct
- Police: Woman bit, tried to take firearm and stun gun from Longview officer
- Boerne High School Band Boosters treasurer stole $87,500 from group, police say
- McAllen Police Details Night of Shooting Involving DPS Trooper
- Long-overdue audit of Fort Worth’s Panther Island boondoggle has begun
- Fair Park hasn’t always been fair to everyone, and it’s time Dallas finally tells that story
- City of Lubbock spends so much it cannot afford to solve a long known problem, wants money from others
- Shallowater wants others to pay for its ambulance service
- Abilene ISD works to help homeless students
- Abilene taxpayers on the hook directly for $12.4 million in debt for subsidized downtown hotel project – from a town that passed a new tax (fee) to pay for standard street maintenance!
- Austin leads nation in population growth for 8 consecutive years
- Austin Police Chief Brian Manley to announce $1M grant to make Riverside Drive safer
- Compounding their stupidity: Austin buys troubled power plant for $460M – this may mitigate their first mistake but that came about solely due to Leftist “green” energy crap.
- San Antonio, firefighters union agree to extend mediation in contract talks
- Nirenberg wins two rounds at San Antonio council meeting, but not without cost
- San Antonio cite-and-release program almost ready, DA says
- Ban On Chick-fil-A Continues: San Antonio Council Again Targets Christian Business
- Petrolia boil order continues – Olney given the all clear
- Grant helps Bowman CommunityVFD prepare for wildland fires
- Census Bureau: Midland posts largest population growth in nation
- Family sues Lake Travis ISD over student’s alleged sexual harassment, bullying
- Round Rock ISD still mulling over its own police force
- MSU to celebrate legacy of former Texas Congressman Graham Purcell
- A&M needs search firm dubbed ‘Jimbo’ to find its next AD
- R.C. Slocum to serve as A&M’s interim AD
- MD Anderson ousts 3 scientists over concerns about Chinese data theft
- Kilgore College, TSTC solidify manufacturing academy agreement
- LeTourneau University students showcase engineering creativity
- UT Air Force ROTC wins Team of the Year
- UT professors have a new idea to bring down the cost of course materials
- UT housing policy changes uproot graduate students
- An Idea for Student Loans: Get Rid of Them
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