- Here’s Where Key Legislation Stands in the Final Week of Session
- Here’s how some of the Texas Legislature’s most important bills are faring in the 2019 session
- Final deals come into focus
- Election Integrity Efforts Die in Texas House
- Controversial voter fraud bill dies in Texas House, but could be revived – it better be revived and passed
- Controversial Texas voting bill likely dead this year after failing to be set for debate
- Bill to bolster Public Information Act gets House approval
- House approves bill firming up free speech rights on college campuses, more
- Senate approves fix to ‘revenge porn’ law
- House approves ban on Planned Parenthood contracts
- Texas Bill Targets Abortion Providers, but Local Providers Worry About Impact on Sexual Health
- House backs abortion bill after debate bogs down Legislature
- In addressing opioid crisis, Texas lawmakers shy away from controversial bills
- House approves hazing bill after addressing Abbott’s concerns
- Texas House approves bill to study day care staffing levels, injury rates
- Herman: ‘Ghost voting’ is common in Texas House; this time it mattered VIDEO
- Red light cameras, hated by many, outlawed by Texas senate and facing likely demise
- Special education advocates hoped for more from 2019 Texas Legislature
- The war on poverty in Texas will be won in public education, and the Legislature must do its part – the Left and their worn-out shibboleths
- State budget committee agrees to fund $17.4 million to Texas Tech vet school
- “Save Chick-fil-A” Advances in Texas House
- ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill approved by Texas House, despite emotional pleas from LGBT members
- House gives preliminary OK to ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill
- House passes religious liberty bill amid LGBTQ Caucus’ objections
- House passes SB 1978; other anti-LGBT measures fail – note the source is the homosexual advocate media
- Taxpayers often face a double hit when disaster damages or destroys their home, leaving them paying taxes on property that no longer exists.
- Bill that would block Cenotaph relocation in Alamo Plaza dies
- Confederate monuments bill fails to get House vote
- Governor Abbott Meets With Indian Ambassador Harsh Shringla
- Abbott Names Vice Chair And Appoints Five To OneStar National Service Commission
- Governor Abbott Prepares State Resources As Severe Weather And Tornadoes Approach Texas
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- EPA Shifts More Environmental Enforcement to States
- At Austin event, Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for unity as some Texas Republicans scoff – Austin Democrats appear to love the Jew-hating anti-Semite
- Sen. Cruz Leads Letter to FDA: ‘Expand the Parallel Track to Target Devastating Diseases’
- Beto O’Rourke Undermines Two Election Results in One Week. Where’s the Mainstream Media Outrage?
- Beto O’Rourke to appear on CNN Town Hall as he relaunches presidential campaign
- What the Australian Elections May Tell Us about the 2020 Presidential Elections
- NPR’s Abortion Rules
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- ‘We’ve Lost Control of the Border,’ Says Border Patrol Agent
- Trump’s Immigration Pitch Has Real Merit
- Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
- 5th Migrant Child Dies After Detention by Border Patrol
- Guatemalan migrant dies after being apprehended at the Texas-Mexico border
- AP Explains: Immigrant Entry Exams Had Puzzles, Delousing
- Trump Refutes Idea of Moving Migrants
- Los Zetas Cartel Dumps Bodies at Mexican Border State Police HQ near Texas
- Mexican Border State Cops Allegedly Kidnapped Gulf Cartel Member for Ransom
- As Texas struggles to fill construction jobs, leaders call immigration proposal “needed relief”
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- From pawn to king: How the Permian changed oil’s Game of Thrones
- 50 percent of drilling permits in March take place in Midland
- A prominent San Antonio theater chain gives its profits to charity. How does that work, exactly?
- Some Grounded Boeing 737 Max Jets Stored in San Antonio
- Exhibit Opening in Dallas Looks at History of Christian Dior
- Lubbock based private pathology lab clarifies role in performing autopsies
- Texas Rural Land Value Trends published
- SEC Examining Alta Mesa Resources
- New BBVA Compass CEO: ‘Our biggest market in the U.S. is Texas’
- National homebuilder focused on growth buys 1,600 lots across Houston
- Residential community planned along Guadalupe River in Comal County
- Frisco developer heads to Lewisville with new downtown project
- Sprint’s 5G devices are coming soon to select markets, including Houston
- To the moon and back: NASA taps SpaceX, Boeing, others for lunar lander research
- Report names San Antonio a top market for retail investment
- American Airlines, DFW Airport strike deal to build new $3 billion terminal
- American Airlines Sues Unions, Accusing Workers of Slowdown
- Austin billionaire Robert F. Smith is wiping out Morehouse graduates’ debt
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- Sutherland Springs Baptist Church Opens New Sanctuary 18 Months After Massacre, more, more
- Governor Abbott Attends Grand Opening Of First Baptist Church Of Sutherland Springs
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement on One-Year Anniversary of the Santa Fe High School Shooting
- No injuries reported after train derails in Elkhart
- 3.1-magnitude earthquake rattled Gonzales County
- Man Charged in Abduction of 8-Year-Old Texas Girl
- Testimony Ends in Harvey-Related Overflow Dams, Floods Case
- Man Dies After Jumping Into Dallas City Hall Reflecting Pool – idiot
- Mother of Missing Texas Girl Wants to Hope She’s Alive
- Arlington Police Officer Fired After Shooting Black Man in Traffic Stop
- Actor Matthew McConaughey Receives His Original Longview High School Diploma
- Merkel Police identify possible attempted kidnapper
- San Marcos police officer hit by SUV Saturday, driver arrested on intoxication assault charge
- Off-duty Houston police officer hit while directing traffic in Galleria area
- Aging steel suspected in dam failure at Lake Dunlap
- Transgender who was attacked in Dallas last month has been found dead
- Laredo woman arrested for sleeping while children seen playing outside
- Two people dead in Odessa house fire
- A jewelry box led police to revisit hundreds of deaths. They may have found a serial killer.
- Former Lubbock ISD Estacado H.S. Nurse Charged with Improper Relationship, more
- Katy ISD worker accused of sending sexually explicit messages to student
- Man arrested, infant checked for injuries after SWAT response in Wolfforth
- Petition calls to end ‘Go Topless’ Jeep event on Crystal Beach after reports of arrests, injuries
- Driver in DWI crash allegedly murdered Houston man hours earlier
- Bond raised for accused driver in fatal shooting of Lamar High School student
- Police dog nabs suspected gun thief after break-in at northwest Houston home
- Wrecker driver in Houston leads police to suspect who allegedly killed pedestrian in hit-and-run
- Man, 70, charged in alleged hit-and-run involving deaf woman on a scooter
- Police Say Dallas Road Rage Incident, Fort Worth Shooting Linked, Could be Gang Related
- 19-year-old from Fort Worth dies during Mormon mission in Mexico
- Capital murder charge filed for man who killed 1 police officer, injured 2 others
- 1 dead after shooting at college grad party in Arlington, police say
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- Bowie installing notification warning system, more
- Wichita Falls city council to consider raising hotel/motel tax, could call for election
- Wichita Falls considers Bowles for $1.53 million project
- WFFD to bring back Citizens Fire Academy after nearly a decade
- Fisher County Jail housing inmates again for the first time since November VIDEO
- Progressive stronghold embodies San Antonio’s political divide
- Some wonder why domestic violence not a focus of San Antonio’s mayoral campaign
- City of Midland to set construction schedule for year 2 road bond projects
- Midland County approves $240,000 in additional funds for Horseshoe
- Houston: Turner to deliver fourth annual State of the City address
- Harris County Moves To Crack Down On Environmental Crime AUDIO
- Austin ISD leaders starting process to determine which schools will be closed, consolidated
- Williamson County panel hosts meetings on potential bond election
- Round Rock school district passes 3.5% salary increases
- Austin gets $100,000 in payback for 2017 water billing debacle VIDEO
- Use the Corpus Christi seawall fund for the seawall, period, and hope it’s enough
- Dallas vows not to remove Confederate War Memorial for 14 days as case reaches courtroom
- American Airlines, DFW Airport strike deal to build new $3 billion terminal
- In fast-growing Fort Worth, school leaders are fighting declining enrollment
- Gregg Appraisal District to shave $514k off monthly payments from taxing entities
- Smith County Jail Now in Compliance
- ‘I was just fired’: Fort Worth police chief says he’s out
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- State budget committee agrees to fund $17.4 million to Texas Tech vet school
- Texas Tech baseball clinches Big 12 Regular Season Championship
- TTUHSC’s School of Nursing has grown into one of the largest in the state
- TTUHSC School of Medicine named Bright Spot for future of family medicine
- Texas ends dramatic season by winning first NCAA men’s tennis title
- HSU Alumni Relations plans an eventful summer for alumni, friends, and family
- A&M San Antonio wants to jump-start student traditions
- Robertson Appointed to Lead Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas
- UTPB in talks to transition STEM program to charter school
- Texas A&M University System Board of Regents names Elaine Mendoza as chairman
- Texas A&M study ties extracurricular activities to academic success
Pratt’s post for 5/20/2019
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