- Overwhelming Majority of GOP Legislative Priorities Officially Dead
- Yacht owners on brink of getting tax break, while Texas homeowners wait for theirs
- New Polling Shows Texans Banking on Property Tax Relief, Open to Special Session
- Abbott, Patrick and Bonnen: Deal reached on property tax relief, school finance bills
- Texas House and Senate strike deal on bill to fund schools, teacher pay raises, tax relief
- Texas’ legislative leaders say they have a deal on school finance and property tax reform
- Texas governor announces $1.6B deal for teacher raises
- Watch Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dennis Bonnen announce school finance deal VIDEO
- Education And Business Leaders Praise Reforms To School Finance And Property Taxes
- After Killing Ban, House Approves Disclosure on Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
- Paid sick-leave ordinances likely survived the Texas Legislature. But businesses still want to kill them.
- Speaker Bonnen stresses that House members are responsible for non-germane Senate amendments on House bills, not his office
- House bill to create language arts STAAR passes Senate
- Mixed legislative results for advocates of armed school marshals
- Texas Moves to Arm More Teachers to Prevent School Shootings
- Beer-to-go sales pass crucial Texas Senate vote
- Texas Approves $3 Billion in Flood Control After Harvey
- Massive flood control package heads to Gov. Abbott’s desk
- Texas Right to Life accuses Texas Republicans of betraying the cause
- Legislature approves sweeping child care safety reforms
- Drug-price transparency bill likely headed to Gov. Abbott’s desk, stronger than many predicted
- Lawmakers Fail to Protect Texas Families from Harmful Juvenile Curfews VIDEO
- Rep. Lina Ortega Passes Bill to Expedite Wyler Tramway Project
- Rep. Calanni Passes SB 1125 to Allow Forensic Analysts to Give Video Court Testimony
- Texas Senate expands medical marijuana law amid worries it will become ‘the next opioid crisis’
- Bill to better protect landowners during land condemnations passes Texas House
- The Driver Responsibility Program may soon be dead. But reform is unlikely for a similar program.
- Herman: Texas House has typical atypical night
- Governor Greg Abbott Appoints University Student Regents And Student Representative To The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Felons can’t run for office just because they can vote, Texas Attorney General says
- U.S. judge dismisses Empower Texans media credentials lawsuit – best phrase in the story: “That score-keeping has long been the bane of moderate Republicans”
- ‘Nice Body for a 70 Year Old’: Ex-Texas District Judge (Corpus Christi) Reprimanded for Groping Women, Misconduct on Bench, more & more
- New Census Data Shows Everything Really Is Bigger in Texas
- Census: Big Cities in US Aren’t Growing Like They Used To
- Texas Guard commander wants F-35s in San Antonio
- Fecal bacteria levels for Texas beaches going into the Memorial Day weekend
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- President Trump Awards Medal to DART Police Officer Brent Thompson
- Jason Pulliam, nominated for federal judge post in San Antonio, questioned on abortion
- Dan Crenshaw pushes for more GOP veterans to run for Congress
- Sens. Cruz, Braun, Cotton, Rubio Call for Religious Freedoms in Cuba after Parents Jailed for Homeschooling
- Sens. Cruz, Hyde-Smith, Inhofe Introduce Bill to Eliminate the Federal Insurance Office
- Ted Cruz spars with actor Jim Carrey after ‘sick’ cartoon of Alabama’s anti-abortion governor – Carrey is a grotesque
- Jimmy Kimmel pokes at Ted Cruz for ‘space pirates’ — latest friction between Hollywood and Texas’ senators
- Beto O’Rourke: Begin impeachment of Donald Trump
- Beto O’Rourke tries to jump-start sputtering campaign on CNN town hall, pushing impeachment
- San Antonio’s Castro brothers will rally for Nirenberg this weekend
- QueerBomb Dallas rescheduled as organizers throw support behind Pride is a Protest march – just thought you’d find the headline entertaining
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- Trump Signs Order Cracking Down on Welfare-Dependent Legal Immigration
- Gulf Cartel Kidnapping Crew Caught Operating in Texas
- Gulf Cartel Ran Video Surveillance Network in Border City near Texas
- Flu Outbreak Sickens Over 30 Migrants at Border Center
- Border Patrol quarantines aliens at McAllen facility amid flu outbreak
- Girl, 10, 6th Known Child to Die After US Border Detention
- Pentagon to Put up Shelter for at Least 7,500 Migrants
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- 12 Top Texas Wineries to Visit
- Toyota could invest $392 million in San Antonio plant
- Oil prices drop $3.51 as U.S. crude supplies post a second straight weekly climb
- Gas prices drop ahead of Memorial Day weekend
- Counsel says there is progress in Reagor-Dykes bankruptcy case
- Trump pledges $16B to farmers; markets slump
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- Beaver Creek near Electra floods surrounding areas VIDEO
- Help Abilene tornado victims, donate to the Abilene Relief Fund
- 130 homes damaged by Abilene tornado, 66% in need of professional repair
- Abilene woman trapped in home after tornado remembers seeing twister before it hit
- Saturday storm damage scenes in Abilene
- Past and present Big Country tornadoes leave lasting impression
- High winds cause power outages, other issues – again for Plainview
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- Leander 8th-Grader Wins National Geographic Contest
- Hardeman Co. deputy cleared of wrongdoing in Quanah shooting
- 2 Plead Guilty in Texas in Backpage.com Sex-Trafficking Case
- Baytown Police Officer Back to Work After Shooting Woman – again, to-date there has been no evidence the policeman did not act reasonably.
- Bible, Other Items Kept From Ex-Texas Nurse Held in Deaths
- Feds Finally Say Why Undercover Agent Was at Scene of 2015 Islamic Attack in Garland
- Affidavit: Thrall man beat his ex-boss with wooden club, stole $14,000 in cash
- 2016 Del Valle murder part of group’s violent crime rampage, feds say
- Wichita Co. woman in jail after allegedly hitting person multiple times with crowbar
- Gang member accused in 2016 murder of Austin man after suspect’s wife tipped off police
- Odessa PD searching for suspect after officer hit with vehicle
- New warrant issued for ex-Abilene church intern who skipped child sex crimes trial
- Man arrested after dropping scale, drugs from shorts
- Judge orders CPS to return King Jay’s siblings to maternal grandparents
- DPS identifies suspect in Seagraves police officer-involved shooting
- Former Houston municipal employee sentenced to 19 years in workplace killing
- Clerk shot during robbery at south Houston gas station
- Acevedo: Suspect is key in finding missing 4-year-old Maleah Davis
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- Wichita Falls hgiher tax on visitors to used to improve existing facility – proving that the facility itself does not generate enough revenue to pay its own way – just pointing that out.
- Wichita Falls Water Main Replacement Project will add fire protection VIDEO
- Amarillo City Council Votes to Expand Hotel Occupancy Tax Collection – avaricious
- Dallas Selling Statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Dallas City Council votes to transfer management of the Meyerson Symphony Center to the Dallas Symphony Association
- Dallas City Council approves bond funding for Emmitt Smith-led development, ends library fines
- Dallas couldn’t buy its way out of the food desert, so now it’s hoping to plant a few small seeds – this whole food desert stuff is stupid.
- New Census Data Shows Everything Really Is Bigger in Texas
- Census: Big Cities in US Aren’t Growing Like They Used To
- New Braunfels, San Antonio sustain their population surges
- Following incident, Austin ISD won’t vote behind closed doors
- Bowie ISD welcomes new superintendent
- City officials planning more parking at Midland International
- Lubbock ISD Trustees announce new administrator and principal assignments
- New Lubbock Fire Chief ready to take next step in 26-year career
- Edinburg Mayor Charged with Voter Fraud Faces Recall Election
- Why Was Fort Worth’s Chief of Police Fired?
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- Governor Greg Abbott Appoints University Student Regents And Student Representative To The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Texas poised to crack down on wasted college credits, offering better support to transfer students
- UTPB/IDEA withdraws proposal for new school
- Company seeks to drill on Midland College campus
- Texas Tech provides residency training track for rural doctors
- HSU Professor inspires Dominican Republic students at Alta Vista school
- Army Futures command declares UT Austin as new research hub, prompting expansions
- Texas A&M won’t renew President Michael Young’s contract — but says there’s no plan for him to leave
Pratt’s post for 5/23/2019
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