- Brass knuckles and Texas property tax reform
- Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Ban Removed from Calendar in Texas House
- Hoping to fix long lines at driver’s license centers, Texas House OKs changes to DPS
- Texas Senate passes ‘born alive’ abortion bill
- Texas lawmakers close to sending “born alive” abortion bill to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk
- Texas too timid against abortion? Conservatives divided on whether GOP could have advocated near-ban
- Chick-fil-A Religious Liberty Bill Still Alive in the Texas Legislature
- House likely to address Abbott’s concerns, OK hazing bill
- House passes bill to spend more than $3 billion to help pay for flood control projects
- Senate votes to allow people to carry guns without a license during disaster evacuations
- House panel adopts stricter Confederate monuments bill
- Can pay raises help rural Texas districts like Buffalo retain teachers?
- Texas medical marijuana expansion gains steam in Senate, even after previous stonewalling
- Legislature Poised For Biggest Broadband Push In State History But Still Catching Up
- Texas House committee signs off on controversial election bill
- Tilove: Amid voter bill debate, UT student worries about disinformation – a glimpse into the ignorant, timid and odd minds of the young
- Public Weighs In on Top Election Integrity Reforms
- Rep, Dominguez’s Disaster Recovery Legislation is Headed to the Governor
- Agriculture department likely to lose gas pump regulation authority
- Fatal Georgetown hit-and-run case sparks proposed law
- House advances Dallas woman’s bill to make fertility fraud a crime
- After $367.5 million, Texas gets no new child support computer software – just painful lessons
- Enforcement lags as Texas moves to raise smoking age to 21
- 1 Year After Santa Fe Shooting, Texas Shuns Tougher Gun Laws
- Governor Abbott Orders Flags Lowered to Half-Staff, Calls For Moment Of Silence On One Year Anniversary Of Santa Fe Shooting
- AG Paxton Joins Coalition Urging CFPB to Restore States’ Authority to Protect Consumers
- AG Law Enforcement Division’s Sgt. David Samaniego Honored with National Award for Stopping Drug-Money Laundering Scheme
- Why does Dallas have nonpartisan municipal elections? Curious Texas investigates
- Texas asserts sovereign immunity against Congress
- UNESCO, THC Moving to Subvert Alamo Museum Plan
- DPS Corporal Honored as Trooper of the Year by Texas Legislature
- Campaign worker for Rep. Charlie Geren apologizes and admits he was behind political dirty trick
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- Cornyn takes on climate change, says ‘days of ignoring’ emissions are over – moron
- Why Trump judicial nominees won’t endorse Brown v. Board of Education
- Texans Hurt by Cronyism in Washington, DC
- Texans in Congress push for release of billions in Harvey aid approved more than a year ago
- Joaquin Castro On Insulin Prices And The President’s New Immigration Plan
- Why Political Campaigns Are Turning Down Free Cybersecurity Help
- Amid protests, Brazilian president Bolsonaro huddles with Dallas business leaders, Bush and Cruz
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- ICE sees ‘New low’ as man smuggles unrelated 6-month-old baby across border
- Former Mexican Governor, Judge Took Cartel Bribes, Says U.S. Treasury
- Mexican Cartel Carjacking Attempts near Texas Border Kill One, Injure 16
- Man in Country Illegally Charged With 11 Murders in Texas
- It’s Getting Harder For Immigrant Service Members To Become US Citizens
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- Texas Adds 28,900 Jobs in April: Unemployment Rate Falls to 3.7 Percent, Returning to All-Time Record Low Last Held in Late 2018
- Austin jobless rate near 20-year low amid booming local economy
- United Airlines to Lay off 100 in Houston, Outsource Jobs
- Ranchers concerned about shortage of large animal vets VIDEO
- Air Tractor releases 800th AT-802 aircraft
- West Texas’ booming Permian leads small rig count dip
- US beef gains full access to Japan
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- One year later: Remembering Santa Fe HS shooting victims
- Baytown Police Officer in Fatal Taser Struggle Had Crisis Training
- Navy SEAL Gets Year in Brig for Hazing Death of Green Beret from Lubbock
- Lubbock Park Creeper Alert: Man Exposes Himself to Kids
- Lubbock Police Arrest Second Suspect in Metro PCS Robberies
- Lubbock Man Found Guilty of Assault on Police Officers
- Lubbock man sentenced to 87 months for robbing First Convenience Bank
- Plainview man found dead from gunshot wound northwest of Lockney VIDEO
- Multi-county pursuit ends Friday morning in Early with fiery wreck; two arrested
- 100-plus mph police chase ends in Early with crash and ‘fireball explosion’, more VIDEO
- Abilene man accused of lying about age to have relationship with 12-year-old
- Abilene Police arrest California man for soliciting minor through online video game
- Suspect charged after pipe bombs found in Reeves County
- Odessa man pleads guilty to injury to child in capital murder case
- Houston father accused of beating infant daughter to death
- Harris Co: Woman charged after driving through barricaded scene of fatal motorcycle crash, kicking deputy
- Massive Houston apartment fire displaces more than a dozen families, injures firefighter
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- Lubbock Co. Medical Examiner files motion to recuse Judge Hatch from lawsuit
- Brian Bibb Named Petersburg ISD Superintendent
- Potter County Judge Addresses Computer Hack
- Austin Wants Green New Deal
- City of Austin ponders boycotting Alabama over controversial abortion law – morons.
- Austin’s Mayor Keeps Dinner with Anti-Semitic Congresswoman
- After Dallas commission upholds Confederate War Memorial removal, one final roadblock: a lawsuit
- Dallas finally looks to develop Hensley Field — 738-acres of rotten land on prime real estate
- Houston taxpayers each on the hook for $22,940 for area governmental debt, according to study
- Taylor County EMS looking to a tax district to fund improved ambulance services
- Taylor Co. Expo Center wins bid to host high school rodeo finals through 2022
- Dates set for Abilene City Council runoff election, early voting locations released
- Lake Amon G Carter to reopen Saturday VIDEO
- Wichita Co. Deputy Schenck given Tessa Price award, saluted for 21 DWI arrests in 2018
- Reeves County officials newest solution to increasing traffic in Pecos VIDEO
- How Santa Fe rebuilt itself in the year after a school shooting
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- Texas Tech Board of Regents reconvene for second May 2019 meeting
- Student-athletes swing for all-star status on the field and in the classroom
- Texas Tech team assesses grassland habitat change of 2 native Texas reptiles
- Ranchers concerned about shortage of large animal vets VIDEO
- A Look Back: HSU’s World Famous Cowboy Band
- MSU Texas grad student wins national cycling title in runaway
- College Board adopts ‘adversity index’ as colleges make SAT optional
- The SAT’s New ‘Adversity Score’
- San Antonian new chair of Texas A&M University System regents
Pratt’s post for 5/17/2019
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