- Calling Texas GOP `the party of results,′ Abbott looks to 2020 elections
- The 2019 legislative session is over. Here are the big bills that passed — and the ones that failed.
- Law Allows Texas Patrons to Dine With Dogs in Certain Areas – yep, dogs that can bite without provocation; carry disease and disease baring bugs; put their fecal matter everywhere they sit; but, I cannot smoke in many cities even when out-of-doors on a patio.
- Texas governor accused people of lying about Texas’ maternal mortality rate. The critics relied on the state’s own bad data.
- Herman: Sen. Judith Zaffirini has record-making session
- Most Texas workers will no longer lose their occupational license if they default on student loans
- Who Occupational Licensing Hurts the Most
- Fiscal Responsibility Index: Lawmakers representing conservative Collin County earned above-average scores in a below-average session.
- Texas joins 14 states in raising minimum tobacco sales age to 21
- Lawmakers overlook high rates of uninsured, foster care fixes
- House Speaker Dennis Bonnen Draws Early Primary Opponent
- Texas Enterprise Fund: Corporate Welfare to Some, Jobs Program to Others
- RRC’s Sitton announces re-election bid
- Public Person, Private Problems; former state Rep. Susan King
- Texas police can seize money and property with little transparency. So we got the data ourselves.
- Texas judges could be getting $30,000 raise
- TEA Commissioner Morath Sends Charter School Decisions to SBOE
- AG Paxton Leads 16-State Brief in Support of Expanding Health Coverage Options for Small Businesses
- Months of chaos lead to dozens of charges at troubled Texas juvenile prison in Gainesville
- Texas Child Custody Case Could Upend A Long-Standing System For Native American Adoptions
- Beth Pratt: Culture changes, but human nature does not – exactly what the best of our founders and framers well understood
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- Congressmen say governor owes Texans an apology for state efforts to purge voter rolls – beyond laughable.
- House Armed Services strikes agreement on Trump’s Space Force
- Trump’s Climate Modeling Reform Scorches His Critics
- Will Wendy Davis Run For Congress?
- O’Rourke dismisses Iowa Poll showing him at 2 percent support
- How long has Beto O’Rourke said ‘it’s time’ for Congress to act on impeachment?
- Joe Biden 1974: ‘Politicians Can Take Away’ First Amendment ‘If We Want’
- If Texas Goes Against Trump, His Presidency Will End Next Year – yes, but that poll is notoriously wrong in Texas
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- Commentary: Democrats Offer ‘Faux Compassion’ on the Border, Says Texas U.S. Rep.
- Rep. Chip Roy slams Republicans, Democrats on border security inaction
- Trump Says Tariffs on Mexico Suspended Indefinitely
- Trump: There’s More to Mexico Deal Than Meets the Eye
- Central American Migrants Say Deal Doesn’t Dash Asylum Hopes
- Mexico: We might have to adopt a “safe third country” protocol if this agreement doesn’t work
- Border immigration surge reaches the Big Bend
- MS-13 Gang Member Used Chickenpox-Infected Toddler for Fake Family Claim
- Border Patrol Agents Save Migrant from Deadly Exposure in Texas
- Border Agent Saves Migrant Mother, Son From Texas Bee Attack
- Authorities arrest two Mexican businessmen with San Antonio ties
- Los Zetas Desecrating Victims’ Bodies in Mexican Border States
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- Emmis Sells Its Controlling Stake Of Austin Radio Cluster, KLBJ included
- American Pushes Back Expected Return Date for Boeing Max
- Infowars to Pay $15K for Unauthorized Pepe the Frog Posters
- Jailed Citgo Executives Ordered to Stand Trial in Venezuela
- George Mitchell’s legacy lives on in The Woodlands as community nears 50 years
- Over 800 items of Reagor-Dykes property auctioned Saturday in Lubbock
- San Antonio engineering firm owner talks projects, faith, family and Austin
- Alamo City Opera folds in wake of founder’s death
- Oil man Alfaro and wife not turning over monies, San Antonio receiver alleges
- Spurs great Tony Parker announces retirement from basketball
- Dallas Cowboys owner’s Comstock Resources buying Haynesville firm for $1.6B
- Abilene could be home of new mushroom and mead production company
- Xcel Energy lowers fuels costs for Texas customers
- When It Comes To Wind Energy, Texas Continues To Lead The Nation
- Hiring by US Employers Hit Record High in April
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- 1 Killed, 5 Injured When Crane Topples on Dallas Apartments
- Dallas Crane Collapse Victim Identified as 29-Year-Old Woman
- Tornado, heavy winds rip through west Copperas Cove
- Hundreds of Dallas-Fort Worth Flights Canceled After Storm
- DFW storms: Storms take down trees, power lines in North Texas
- Lake Amon G. Carter will be reopened on Tuesday
- Thursday’s storm snaps massive tree at San Antonio College’s 117-year-old Koehler House
- Half the Abilene homes hit by May 18 tornado were rental properties
- Wind damage forces Brazos Bend State Park to close through July 1
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- Body of Kemah’s Police Chief Found in Houston Ship Channel
- Ex-Houston Minister Gets 10 Years in Prison, Embezzled $800K
- Woman stuck in tanning bed charged with meth possession
- Scooter rider seriously injured after hit by vehicle near downtown Austin
- Hundreds March to Honor Memory of Texas Girl Maleah Davis
- Missing Texas Hiker Calls Rescue in Arkansas a Miracle
- 1 dead in Fort Worth police shooting, police say
- Driver of moving truck ambushed in parking lot, shot in face, San Antonio police say
- 1 police officer released from hospital following deadly crash that left 3 others hospitalized
- California couple no billed in abduction of Burkburnett toddler case
- Elderly woman arrested for evading Wichita Falls, county police
- WF police investigating gunshot death overnight
- Abilene police: Woman tried to jump from moving ambulance
- Seminole EMS unit destroyed in Friday afternoon fire
- Texas City mom allegedly kicked out of pool for breastfeeding baby, ‘nurse-in’ staged in support
- Harris Co. man faces manslaughter charge in death of longtime friend
- ‘She could have been killed’: Car plows through SE Houston home with family inside
- Suspect reaches 120 mph during chase with 4-year-old girl in the back seat in Harris County
- Houston mom arrested for kicking 10-year-old out of car for spilling food
- 16-year-old drowns in San Jacinto River
- Armored truck guard shot in attempted robbery at Willowbrook Mall
- RIP: Bill Wittliff, ‘Lonesome Dove’ screenwriter and Texas State archive namesake, has died
- Rapper Bushwick Bill of Houston’ Geto Boys Dies at 52
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- TEA recommends replacing Harlandale school board, lowering accreditation
- Split commissioners’ vote names Richard Gillette as Midland Co. sheriff
- Nirenberg re-elected San Antonio Mayor in close win over Brockhouse
- San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg wins second term after bruising battle
- San Antonio mayor, with slim reelection margin, looks ahead
- Nirenberg gets victory, but no mandate in San Antonio runoff
- San Antonio Votes for Higher Taxes & Discrimination
- City weighs $2.8 million in incentives for developer to rehab three downtown San Antonio buildings
- San Antonio, military officials took wrong route to Elmendorf’s bird island
- Why mansions on Lake Austin are exempt from city taxes VIDEO
- City Council might repeal Lake Austin mansion tax exemption
- Smith County administrator takes job at Richland Co., SC
- State Rep. Eric Johnson easily defeats council member Scott Griggs to become Dallas mayor
- Eric Johnson’s win in Dallas mayoral race was a referendum on nasty politics – doubtful
- Congratulations, I guess, to Eric Johnson, Dallas’ new mayor
- A new day for Dallas: a positive and unified vision emerged from Saturday’s election
- Dallas City Hall is ready to settle porn expo’s federal lawsuit for $650K
- Shingle Mountain isn’t going anywhere, and Dallas wants the people responsible fined or thrown in jail — or both
- Lubbock: Health effects from contaminated water around former Reese AFB remain unknown
- South Plains College Board of Regents vote to buy Lubbock City Hall
- Galveston celebrates homosexuality with new rainbow crosswalk
- Upper Trinity groundwater district sets hearing for proposed permanent rules
- Wichita Co: New courthouse technology causes some employees to train, reapply
- Iowa Park officials look into new facilities for PD, FD
- City of Fort Stockton warns of possible security breach
- Big Spring unofficial Runoff Election results see Shannon Thomason elected as mayor
- Brown County Commissioners Court certifies, designates TrueCore lease revenue
- Police chief, chamber president address why Abilene ranks low in safest Texas cities study
- City of Lubbock, Lubbock ISD to conduct joint full-scale active shooter training exercise today
- Lubbock Co. commissioners’ court begins search for new medical examiner services
- Lubbock Co. commissioners to consider hotel occupancy, rental car tax to fund expo center
- Constable’s initiative aims to prevent hot-car deaths in Houston
- Rapper Scarface announces run for Houston City Council seat
- Harris County sues Exxon Mobil over ‘illegal’ emissions release after Baytown refinery fire
- Houston Flood Czar: Stopping Development In 100-Year Floodplain ‘Not Going To Happen’ AUDIO
- Former Fort Worth police chief files whistleblower lawsuit
- Liberty Hill resident discovers unauthorized wastewater release into river
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- Tech men win NCAA track and field championship
- Texas Tech Baseball punches ticket to Omaha, College World Series
- Texas Tech To Face Michigan Wolverines In Omaha
- Texas Tech recruiting “LGBTQIA” administrator
- TTU Rawls College Of Business Expanding Programming To Meet Needs Of Banking Industry
- New Project Aiming to Restore and Replant Texas A&M Trees
- South Plains College Board of Regents vote to buy Lubbock City Hall
- Paul Hise Resigns as LCU’s Athletic Director After 15-Year Tenure
- Texas Cowboys accept 6-year suspension for hazing, but UT-Austin leaves door open for faster return
- Texas Southern’s law school starts incubator for community-minded graduates
Pratt’s post for 6/10/2019
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