- Here are new laws going into effect Sept. 1 in Texas
- To combat porch pirates, Texas makes package thefts a felony offense
- Lines to get driver’s licenses are long. Texans are skeptical more money will help.
- Texas raises the legal smoking age, exempting members of the military
- Giffords in Austin to launch new group on gun violence
- Secret meeting: former Texas House speaker attacked; conservative activist accused of ‘gaslighting’
- Denton County GOP Calls for Speaker Bonnen’s Resignation
- Montgomery County GOP Calls for Bonnen to Resign
- Commentary: Speaker Bonnen Should Resign
- Empower Texans is denied in request to include information about Bonnen meeting in lawsuit over House media credentials
- Conservative Dollars Conspicuously Missing From Latest Campaign Finance Reports
- Ransomware attack hits more than 20 Texas local governments
- Hackers cripple 22 Texas government agencies, just as new cybersecurity law is enacted
- Some Cities Recovered From Ransomware Attack
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces High Demand for Texas Short-Term Notes
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- Rep. Chip Roy emerges as the U.S. House’s rookie contrarian of the year
- Chip Roy conducts a town hall in two acts — one civil, one not, more VIDEO
- TX23: Democrat Ortiz Jones Boasts $1M Fundraising Haul in House Race
- TX22: Houston Republican Kathaleen Wall files to run for Congress again – open seat as Olson is retiring.
- TX11: Schumann wants people to keep more of their money from “hard work”
- U.S. attorney general visits Dallas boxing gym to talk crime fighting
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to close Texas Tribune Festival next month
- Don’t Cut the Payroll Tax, Unless…
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- O’Rourke on Historical Racist Attacks: US as Divided as Ever
- Beto O’Rourke doesn’t differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants
- Ignorant consumers of media are part of the problem (And no, Melania Trump is not a porn star.)
- Some Texas TV stations are owned by a pro-Trump media giant – this bothers the liberals who believe they should have a total monopoly on media!
- Biden: I remember when MLK and RFK were shot in the late 1970s – senile
- Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Awarded $3 Million for Wrongful Termination
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- MS-13 Member Arrested After Crossing Border with Illegal Alien Group
- 200 Pounds of Narcotics Seized at Texas Border Bridge
- Mexican Police Find 75 Migrants in Border Town Safe House
- Federal Rule Change Would Do Away With Detention Limits For Migrant Families AUDIO
- Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longer
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- California firm buys downtown Austin’s Chase Tower
- Deals for San Antonio office buildings finally close
- Irving-based Vistra Closing 4 Illinois Power Plants Over Emissions
- American Airlines Will Pay $22 Million to Settle U.S. Mail Delivery Case
- DOJ Sues Sabre to Block $360M Acquisition Over Competition Concerns
- XFL unveils its Houston team: The Houston Roughnecks
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- Copper Breaks fire 58% contained, Crowell fire not contained
- Forest Service fire updates: Fires in Foard Co. & Irioin Co. 5 & 25% contained
- Texas Forest Service showcases ABIA air tanker base as wildfire activity increases VIDEO
- Eula Volunteer Fire Department in need of help after increase in fires
- Young boy uses birthday party to raise money for Breckenridge Fire Dept.
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- Harris Co. Constable Deputy Expected to Be OK After Traffic-Stop Shooting
- Ex-Austin firefighter Marcus Reed found guilty on one count; jury deadlocked on two others
- International ring charged in San Antonio with stealing millions of dollars from military veterans
- El Paso mass shooting survivor: Bank could have saved victims
- Man Set to Be Executed for Killing of Texas College Student
- I-35: Concrete Fragments of Austin Highway’s Upper Level Fall
- 2 Inmates Captured After Escape From Liberty County Jail
- Houston youth pastor charged with indecency with a child
- NASA Testing Urban Drone Safety Over Corpus Christi
- Odessa bank robbery suspect charged
- Police: Odessa man arrested after trying to build explosive
- WFPD: Man arrested after threatening Uber driver with knife
- Manhunt in Wilbarger County ends with two behind bars – great to see those Texas lawman on horseback!
- Body of Sweetwater man found in ditch along I-20, police investigating
- San Angelo PD investigating Tuesday evening shooting on the city’s north side
- ‘Cowboy’ store clerk ties up robbery suspect
- Lubbock Teenager Arrested After Shooting Police Officer’s K-9
- CPS takes custody of child from woman charged with murder of Celestino Rodriguez, 2 new suspects arrested in Rodriguez murder
- Lubbock man admits he had 89 videos, more than 600 images of child sexual abuse
- Lubbock woman indicted, charged with agg. sexual assault of a child
- Plainview Fire Marshal rules car fire that killed 3-year-old is accidental
- Mesquite ISD bus driver accused of soliciting a minor for sex
- ‘I let out a whole clip on Patra’: Man allegedly confessed to killing pregnant woman, police say
- Arrests made in Bell County prostitution sting
- Driver tops 75 on local street during high-speed chase, hits man on ATV
- Sheriff ‘sick’ over random killing of former Central Texas Marine in New Mexico
- McLennan County employee dies when gravel truck overturns on rural road
- Constables arrest El Paso man suspected of slashing patrol vehicle’s tire in video
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- San Antonio has a new draft of the paid sick leave ordinance
- Some jail inmates in Bexar Co. will go home a little safer
- Cibolo City Council fails to oust mayor
- GBRA sticks with decision to drain lakes despite residents’ pleas to stop
- Some Cities Recovered From Ransomware Attack
- Lubbock County fends off cyber attack after being one of many targets VIDEO
- Lubbock’s Citibus caters to virtue signaler with 2 electric buses
- Ector Co. ISD board hears reports on teacher shortage, accountability
- Midland ISD school board approves $569M bond for November ballot
- Montague Co. commissioners approve updated subdivision rules
- Wichita Falls council votes for public censure of Jackson Hearing on ethics complaint – a violation of free political speech if ever there was one.
- Brown Co. commissioners adopt changes to court’s rules
- Major water line break in Comanche disrupts city
- Austin poised to reverse course on homeless camping, issue new restrictions
- Austin Wants to Use Your Money for Abortions
- Frenship ISD and Shallowater ISD Announce Pay Raises
- Plainview ISD to provide free breakfast, lunch to students – broke schools?
- New $53M Prosper high school football stadium has state’s largest video board – again, broke, underfunded public schools? B.S.
- City of Denton Proposes Higher Property Taxes, More Debt
- Houston’s mayor wants increased local authority for gun control measures
- Lawsuit seeks to stop Houston school board’s ouster by TEA
- Dallas needs the mayor’s violent crime task force to find answers
- Round Rock is About to Take More of Your Money
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- Texas Tech awarded four new grants totaling over $6 million by CPRIT
- U.T. Tyler Announces Vision at 2019 Convocation
- Governor Abbott Holds Ceremonial Bill Signing Establishing College Of Medicine At University Of Houston
Pratt’s post for 8/21/2019
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