- Here’s what we know about the Legislature’s final property tax reform bill – I was told at Noon today that it likely had more changes coming this afternoon.
- Here’s what’s in the Texas Legislature’s landmark school finance bill
- Deal reached on property tax relief, school finance bills
- Is Texas’ wallet big enough to pay for school, property tax plans? Maybe not. But no worries. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ – (that’s ASCII text making the image a shrug and smile) exactly the question I posed for Tuesday’s commentary I produced this morning
- Compromise Announced on School Spending and Property Tax Relief
- Wealthy school districts are complaining in Austin about a budgeting fix designed to address equity – this is the root of the problem and why there can never be a school finance “fix,” it all relates to the socialist demand for “equity.”
- Abbott: What They Are Saying About The Texas Plan For School Finance And Property Tax Reform
- Texas lawmakers struggling to find a lovable tax
- The Texas Republican Party platform supports some marijuana expansions. So why doesn’t Dan Patrick? – for the same reason I don’t. He can see beyond the end of the block unlike most folk.
- Texas, other states look to boost fees on EV’s to fund highway maintenance
- Texas House Kills Policy Supported By 88% of Texans – taxpayer-funded lobbying
- Negotiators to debate changes to election bill
- Rape kit backlog bill headed to Abbott
- Bill banning Planned Parenthood contracts sent to Abbott
- Bill lengthening amount of time child sex abuse victims can sue heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk
- SB25 helps students graduate sooner with less debt – funny how the assumption is completely “debt” as opposed to cost. There are folk who work their way through.
- Bill updating Texas’ car seat law passes – more nanny-state
- Landgraf’s anti-human trafficking bill fully enacted by Texas Legislature
- Lawmaker grills Department of Public Safety over disclosure of Sandra Bland cellphone video, more, more, more – again, that video was out and shown in the media back at the time of the controversy. It is not true that it had remained secret, if my memory is correct KXAN in Austin had it and aired it.
- Texas picklers get a victory from the Legislature
- Bill seeks to undo 2 court rulings on freedom of information law
- Senate OKs House tweak to anti-hazing measure
- Tilove: On ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill, Erin Zwiener pleaded with colleagues not to make her opa’s mistake – what self-serving crap. Sin doesn’t become non-sin just because it is practiced by a family member. It’s also ridiculous to impute to a dead person that such person would have had a differing opinion because of her.
- Herman: Is Battleship Texas destined for a new home?
- Legislature limits disabled veteran toll discount
- Lauren’s Law passes final hurdle, headed to Governor Abbott VIDEO
- Craddick: Hospital’s election bill passes the Senate
- Fingers crossed that the travel tax bill that died in the Legislature remains buried
- North Texans plan ‘Dogs against Stickland’ protest after tea party rep kills anti-tethering bill
- Women’s Dignity Legislation Provides Protection And Resources For Female Prisoners AUDIO
- “I’m still doing penance”: How Kel Seliger gets by in the Texas Senate dog house – unelected is what he needs. He’s an awful obnoxious pretentious git.
- With Secretary of State David Whitley close to losing his job, anxious Democrats take attendance
- Courts say her daughter’s death was a tragic accident. Texas still doesn’t want her to teach.
- Texas: 15 Lakes Show Signs of Invasive Zebra Mussels
- TxDOT chair tours Permian to gain more information on region
- Texas leads the nation in children who die in hot cars – biggest state in the high heat.
- ———————————————
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Passes Cruz-Durbin Resolution Calling for Peaceful Transition in Sudan
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn introduce bill to rename Odessa VA Clinic
- U.S. Rep. Chip Roy single-handedly delays $19.1 billion disaster aid package, more – Roy was right and should be applauded not vilified.
- U.S. Senate passes disaster aid bill that would release billions for Harvey housing aid
- Legislation named after Plainview veteran passes U.S. House
- Richard A. Epstein: In Defense Of Abortion’s Messy Status Quo
- Beto O’Rourke’s refusal to endorse against GOP pal Will Hurd still stirs anger, but would it have mattered?
- ———————————————
- AG Paxton to Congress: States Need Clear-Cut Authority to Enforce Their Criminal Laws Against Illegal Activity Online
- Group Seeks $100M for Woman Killed by US Border Agent
- Convicted sex offender charged with illegal re-entry VIDEO
- Privately owned jail in West Texas town [Eden] reopens
- Harvard holds ‘Undocugraduation’ for illegal alien grads
- Pentagon agrees to set up tent housing near the border for roughly 7,500 migrants
- ———————————————
- New Mexico’s Permian leads another rig count dip
- Oil pares biggest weekly loss of 2019 as supply, trade fears mix
- Mills: Permian Basin become largest producing oil field
- Kinder Morgan project to boost fuel exports to Mexico
- Expansion begins for Brownsville project selling fuels in Mexican market
- Shell Begins Production at Platform in Gulf
- Houston’s EP Energy delisted from NYSE
- How a sleepy Texas trust turned into Permian oil proxy war
- Diamondback’s Rattler raises $665 million in biggest energy IPO of 2019
- SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellites Aimed at Fast Internet, more
- XFL wants to score bankrupt football league’s assets stored in San Antonio warehouse
- ‘Like a resurrected hippie,’ this barefoot San Antonio CEO takes on health care titans
- Texas Biomed doubling scientific workforce to tackle infectious diseases
- Cigar box guitars built in San Antonio make smoking hot music
- ———————————————
- Massive funnel cloud in Texas panhandle (Lipscomb County) VIDEO
- Fourth Day of Nasty Storms Ravages Central US
- Video: ‘Abilene Strong’ tornado special raises donations for storm survivors VIDEO
- EF3 tornado causes $5 million in damage in Ballinger VIDEO
- Big Country VOAD releases damage statistics from last Saturday’s tornado in Abilene
- Forum to detail storm recovery resources for San Angelo
- Lubbockites Wonder About Weird Cloud Formation During Storms
- Very large hail, flooding across the South Plains Thursday night VIDEO
- ———————————————
- ‘The murder had to happen’: She lost custody of her kids, so her police officer husband devised a plan
- Health Warnings Lifted on 2 Texas Bays After Accident, Leak
- 2 Texas Men Died Trying to Jump Car Over Open Drawbridge
- 2 Injured as Small Plane Crashes Into House in McKinney
- Houston Police Chief Asks Public to Help to Find Girl’s Body
- Five Montague Co. residents sustained gunshots, stab wounds following fight
- Wichita Falls woman charged with harboring capital murder suspect
- Odessa PD Officer is hit by a car while trying to apprehend a suspect, more VIDEO
- 5-6 bullets narrowly miss mom, kids during drive-by shooting in Early
- Four accused predators arrested during child sex crime sting in Abilene
- Lubbock man wanted for domestic abuse arrested in Colorado
- Shallowater woman in 2015 manslaughter case placed on 8 years probation
- San Antonio: Lingerie-wearing man breaks into home, steals women’s clothing
- 500-ton house in downtown San Antonio moves to new site
- Federal judge in San Antonio allows lawsuits against Air Force from Sutherland Springs victims to go forward
- 2nd person charged in machete death near Spring ISD school
- Family dog shot during home invasion in southeast Houston
- Video shows elderly woman sucker punched outside Houston H-E-B VIDEO
- ———————————————
- Absurd economic ideas of city governments
- Robert Lee mayor indicted on suspicion of debit card abuse, City sued by former secretary
- Pearland ISD announces new dress code amid discrimination claims
- Harlandale ISD has land, wants students — and mulls a possible swap
- Wichita Falls ISD school board members to decide on potential facility plans
- City of Big Spring warns residents of possible water outages
- Lubbock residents raise concerns about sober living homes in neighborhoods VIDEO
- KCBD Investigates: Unanswered questions on Lubbock County Medical Examiner VIDEO – a reading of this will show what Lubbock voters got in their new county judge. He talked a big talk but seems clueless.
- City of Lubbock reinstates Homelessness Committee to tackle the issue VIDEO
- Austin City Council says yes to $1.2 billion convention center expansion
- Austin: Scooter riders beware, city sets safety rules, fines
- Austin Mayor Sides with San Antonio’s Discriminatory Leader
- Dallas vows, again, to protect the Great Trinity Forest, but what does that even mean?
- Leander Fires City Manager, Heads in “New Direction”
- Voter Fraud Alleged in Fort Worth Council Race
- Amarillo ISD Begins School Renaming Process
- Emails show Killeen didn’t inspect fire hydrants as required by law
- Countywide Voting Comes To Bexar
- ———————————————
- Congratulations to Texas Tech HSC for no longer using race as admission criteria
- UT president: Two-year contract extension shows ‘we’re committed to Tom Herman’
Pratt’s post for 5/24/2019
May 24, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Speak Your Mind