- Texas tax collectors predict another $500 million for the state budget – as reported yesterday on Pratt on Texas
- Revived ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill will be debated today in Texas Senate
- Raising tobacco age to 21 survives final attacks in House
- Texas May Up Smoking Age to 21 – dumb move
- Senate seeks to extend time in end-of-life hospital disputes, Beaumont Woman Awaits Transfer as Texas Senate Reforms 10-Day Rule
- More than hundred opponents line up to testify against Texas voter fraud bill – seems a lot of folk support vote fraud
- House Expected to Strip Paper Audit from Election Integrity Bill
- TAB Newsroom Legislative Priorities Near Final Approvals
- Anti-SLAPP Law Rewrite Advances in Texas Senate
- Senate passes resolution on hazing, ‘a senseless loss of life’
- House Rejects Sunset Recommendation to Abolish Plumber Board
- Landgraf Amendment Causes Fatal Blow to GROW Texas Fund Legislation – funny, the Midland/Odessa media has republished almost all of Landgraf’s self-congratulatory press releases as news stories this session but this was absent from coverage as best as I can tell.
- Texas ban on brass knuckles, kitty keychains lifted
- Texas high-speed rail project dodges bullet after budget rider dies
- Rep. Johnson’s School-to-Workforce Pipeline Bill Passes Senate, Heads to Governor
- Joint Admission Medical Program passes both chambers
- Analysis: A rumor of a game of succession in the Texas Senate
- In a nod to Texas, U.S. Department of Justice says FDA can’t regulate execution drugs
- Texas’ Planned Parenthood Case Could Head To The Supreme Court
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- Sen. Cruz Demands FAA Nominee to Investigate Boeing 737 MAX Crashes
- House lawmakers grill FAA over Boeing 737 Max 8, citing Dallas Morning News reports
- Sen. Mitt Romney votes against new East Texas judge who called Barack Obama ‘un-American impostor’ – Romney is as liberal as was his pro-union father
- Cornyn defends East Texas judge pick who called President Obama an ‘un-American impostor’
- Sid Miller calls on Mayor Adler to skip event with Rep. Ilhan Omar
- Miller chides ‘Jewish Mayor Adler’ for joining Omar at Ramadan
- TX23: Jones has cause for optimism in rematch with Hurd
- Joaquin Castro’s out and MJ Hegar’s in, but other Democrats still eyeing John Cornyn’s seat
- Beto’s “Moderate” Healthcare Proposal Would Ban Private Medicine, Experts Say
- Beto gets “succor” from ex-girlfriends; what does Castro get?
- Donald Trump: ‘Beto was made to fall like a rock’
- 2020 Democratic candidates appeal to ex-Obama staffers, donors and voters – comrades, party members…
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- Armed patriots vow continued patrols as monthly border crossings reach 100,000
- Deported Criminal Alien Assaulted Border Patrol Agent, Say Feds
- Border Patrol Seizes $2.2 Million of Meth at Interior Texas Checkpoint
- Mexican Cartel Threatens Police with Murdered Woman’s Body
- Photos Capture Near-Drowning of Migrants on US-Mexico Border
- Border Wall to Go up in National Monument, Wildlife Refuge – the wildlife don’t much care, it’s no different than a rock cliff to animals
- If we want immigrants to come here ‘the right way’ we have to provide a path – we have such you moron
- TSA sending up to 400 workers to southern border, but says it won’t slow air travel
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- Sales Tax Holidays for Water-Efficient and ENERGY STAR Products Set for May 25-27
- Stanley Black & Decker Announces North Texas Plant, 500 Jobs
- San Antonio home sales grew 6 percent in April as prices just keep rising
- Millions of Texans expected to travel for Memorial Day vacations
- Surge of new Permian Basin oil to feed global supply
- U.S. petroleum stockpiles surge by nearly 15M barrels
- Braum’s Ice Cream moving into Lubbock market
- Buc-ee’s bathrooms outshine other roadside restrooms nationwide, according to GasBuddy
- Galveston’s Year-Round Oyster Harvest Halted After Ship Channel Chemical Spill
- Court of Appeals Considers Whether TCPA Applies to Noncompetes in TX
- Judge orders alleged polluter of Skull Creek to stop accepting, disposing of waste
- Venue owned by famous Texas BBQ family under investigation over construction runoff
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- Petrolia and Charlie join together to support families impacted by tornado
- One Denton Church Mobilizes When Even Small Storms Roll Through
- Search continues for woman swept into bayou at Ten Mile Crossing
- National Weather Services issues report on May 7 tornadoes in Hale, Swisher counties
- Game Wardens use drones to search for missing woman in Brown County VIDEO
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- Police Execute Search Warrant at Catholic Diocese of Dallas
- Police arrest suspect in back-to-back Lubbock armed robberies
- 3 Nabbed in Investigation of Houston-Area Drug Store Holdups
- Texas Woman Pleads Guilty in Kansas Fair Vendors’ Deaths
- Search for Missing 4-Year-Old Houston Girl Moves to ‘Haunted House’
- Maleah Davis among more than 50 children still missing from Houston
- Bodies Found in Burning Car Were Dead Suspect’s Children
- Montague Co. man sentenced to 95 years for sexual abuse of children
- Midland police searching for suspect in drive-by shooting
- Hardin-Simmons basketball player arrested for sexual assault
- Lubbock Woman and Her Dog Are Killed in Alleged Hit-And-Run
- 2 students taken into custody after gun recovered from Lubbock ISD’s Monterey High School
- Man rescued after trench collapse in north Harris County
- Major development in botched HPD drug raid
- Plane flips after crash landing at Manvel airport
- Security guard on her way to work finds man with gunshot wound in NW Houston
- Former Hays Co. Baptist deacon charged with sexually abusing young girls, police say
- Crime Watch: Cattle missing in Central Texas
- Would-be robber shot dead by Grand Prairie homeowner
- Fort Worth man who says he shot neighbor in self-defense arrested after shooting girlfriend, police say
- Resident who shot armadillo, triggering SWAT response gets ‘warning’
- 2 men shot in head during argument at Fort Worth apartments
- Man, 18, dies after found shot inside mobile home in Dallas
- Police investigate homicides involving two brothers near Texas A&M University-Kingsville
- SAPD: Man choked wife, fired shot, triggered police standoff in Stone Oak
- Man, 70, in underwear arrested after dead wife found naked in vehicle after El Paso stay
- Zayas reprimanded for behavior during Edinburg mayor’s arraignment
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- Head of San Antonio Area Tourism Council stepping down
- State district judge rules Houston’s Proposition B unconstitutional
- Facebook denies Houston’s ads promoting fair housing over race, religion references
- Tarrant Regional Water District Might Save Water But Wastes Taxpayer Money
- WFISD Board of Trustees calls for Tax Ratification Election in June VIDEO
- WFISD tax proposal could lowers rate, increases revenue – yes, that is how the headlined appeared even a day later.
- Executive director visits Lake Wichita meeting
- City of Bowie conveys land to BEDC
- Midland City Council approves nearly $1M in convention center costs
- Midland to scale back recycling program
- New Ector Co. ISD superintendent starts July 1
- Odessa approves infrastructure grants
- Moss Creek Lake in Big Spring reopens VIDEO
- Brownwood council OKs $100K upgrade to Riverside Park playground
- Travis Craver sworn in as Abilene Place 6 City Councilman
- After El Paso voted to preserve land in Northwest, city forms committee to determine costs
- Cameron County approves another round of SpaceX closures
- Mission city council considers charter changes
- Marlin: Council officially hires new city manager
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- Windows Honoring Baptist Leader in Texas Removed From Chapel at SBTS
- HSU Voice Faculty Bids Farewell with Final Collective Performance
- Texas Tech Baseball Lands 11 On Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- TTU A.D. Hocutt’s contract includes $1.5M buyout
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- Air Force names new commander for 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base
Pratt’s post for 5/15/2019
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