- Democrat’s “joke” about Gov. Abbott’s disability and he may get the last laugh
- First scandal, then fizzle. Corruption probe of Texas Speaker Bonnen is on familiar track. – long story but it actually says nothing other than that in the past it has been hard to prove impropriety.
- State will manage $4.3B Hurricane Harvey recovery funding, not local governments
- AG Paxton: Dismiss the City of Austin’s Baseless Lawsuit Over Imagined Future Litigation
- Supreme Court to review Louisiana abortion law that mirrors overturned Texas law
- Bickerstaff, go-to lawyer for redstricting, election law, dies in Austin – go-to for the Left-leaning.
- Polling Suggests Immediate Action Needed on Election Integrity
- Federal Disaster Declared for 6 Texas Counties Hit by Imelda
- Texas leaders launch human trafficking awareness campaign
- Herman: Should a judge share, push her religion on a defendant?
- Judge Says She Couldn’t Refuse Convicted Ex-Cop a Hug
- Texas Appeals Court Rejects Recommendation to Spare Killer
- Texas Secretary of State Joins Economic Trade Mission To Mexico
- Governor Abbott Delivers Remarks At Japan-America Society Of Houston Gala And Award Ceremony
- Abbott Delivered Remarks At Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary Celebration In Irving
- Governor Abbott Appoints Five To Texas Board of Nursing
- Abbott Names Susser Chair And Appoints Shaw To Governor’s University Research Initiative Advisory Board
- Dallas Judges Poll: Two Women Jurists get Highest Ratings, Three get Lowest
- Drake Pardo to Be Moved Out of Foster Care to Fictive Kin as Case Continues
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- With nearly $11M banked, John Cornyn in strong shape for reelection fight after raising $3.2M last quarter
- TX11: Former MHS football star enters congressional race
- Pete Sessions downplays meeting with Soviet-born businessmen caught in Trump impeachment inquiry
- Donald Trump Calls for Mitt Romney to be Impeached – there’s as much evidence supporting Romney’s removal as there is Trump’s
- Poll: 57% Americans Support Probe of Biden and Son’s Ukraine, China Actions
- Democrats Trying to Impeach Trump in Secret Hearings
- Trump Blames Rick Perry for ‘Perfect’ Ukraine Call
- Rick Perry says he ‘absolutely’ asked Trump to call Ukrainian president — but about energy, not Joe Biden
- Hurd, Castro: Texts from U.S. diplomats on Trump, Ukraine are ‘damning’ – damning to whom about what? Hurd can think things “terrible” but none of those things are in anyway illegal, just style or policy with which he disagrees.
- VA shows why you shouldn’t want gov’t healthcare
- Cruz, McCaul blast Trump for unleashing Turkey against Syria’s Kurds, warn that emboldens ISIS, Iran
- Clarence Thomas absent ‘due to illness’ as Supreme Court begins new term
- Rick Perry ready to leave Trump Cabinet, sources say – this will only end when he actually leaves but we’ve had 2 years of these wrong predictions.
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- Elizabeth Warren hires Texas state director
- Biden’s Ukraine activity hurts campaign
- Incriminating Photo Bad News for Biden
- Fox Poll: Biden Stronger General Election Candidate Than Warren in Wisconsin
- Julian Castro seeks to help asylum seekers forced to stay in Matamoros
- What Democrats and Republicans are doing to win the pivotal women’s vote in the 2020 elections
- Democrats, Republicans unite to condemn NBA, Rockets for folding to Chinese pressure over tweet
- Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s controversial tweet sparks reactions from Ted Cruz, Beto O’Rourke, others
- Ted Cruz says NBA ‘shamefully retreating’ from Morey comments ‘in pursuit of big $$’
- Ocasio-Cortez: Prisons are slavery’s legacy, so let’s abolish them, or something
- Anti-hunting groups seek to oust big-game hunters from global conservation body
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- REPORT: Alien Apprehensions at Border in 2019 Hit 12-Year High
- Dangerous Human Smuggling Incidents Disrupted near Texas Border
- Alleged Smugglers Use Children to Distract from Meth Smuggling
- Mexican Border City Cartel Clashes Leave Three Murdered, Two Kidnapped
- Seven Gulf Cartel Gunmen Killed in Clashes near Texas Border
- Ex-Mexican Governor Wanted in Texas Waives Extradition to US
- Julian Castro seeks to help asylum seekers forced to stay in Matamoros
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- NBA scrambles after China angered by Houston Rockets’ ‘regrettable’ pro-democracy tweet, more – I understand the business-side but am deeply disappointed in Fertitta putting his business ties ahead of his country and what it stands for.
- US Researchers on Front Line of Battle Against Chinese Theft
- World’s First Bladesmithing School Relocates to Texarkana
- Dallas Fed: Austin economic growth remains strong
- GM-UAW Talks Take Turn for Worse; Settlement Not Near – fire ‘em and hire people who want to work for GM as opposed to the UAW.
- Renewable Energy Firm Doubles Down on Western Wind Projects
- USDA Spends $152 Million to Improve Broadband Service in 14 States
- Suddenlink issues statement regarding customers’ anger at billing, service issues – they suck, I just went around with them too. They are among the most rude, anti-customer people (all but one employ) I have dealt with.
- ORMC takes on mass shooting patients, aftermath
- Allsup’s famous burritos are back
- Goodyear Proving Grounds marks 75th anniversary in West Texas with fast cars, expansion
- Texas Tech experts weigh in on tariff impacts on cotton, agriculture
- Reagor-Dykes counsel asks to delay liquidation request
- First B&T: Reagor, Dykes using hearsay, speculation
- Judge denies Reagor’s request to delay Vista Bank suit
- The first Barnett Shale gas well, the one that ignited the revolution, remains standing as the suburbs encroach
- Study: Mandatory labeling had minimal effect on meat demand
- Texas breweries win big at Great American Beer Festival
- Southwest Pilots’ Union Sues Boeing Over Grounding of Plane
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- Former Hidalgo County sheriff commander may be headed back to prison
- Joshua Brown, witness in Amber Guyger murder trial and neighbor of Botham Jean, shot to death in Dallas
- Dallas Police Investigate Death of Witness in Ex-Cop’s Trial
- Dallas Mayor: Avoid Speculation After Guyger Witness Death
- Dallas Police Association president dismisses call for resignation in wake of Amber Guyger trial
- 2 Wounded in El Paso Walmart Attack Remain Hospitalized
- Soldier praised as hero during El Paso shooting arrested after going AWOL
- Man Led by Rope Says Video of Arrest Made Him Feel Shame – so what?
- Police: 2 Dead Following Shootout Outside Houston Nightclub
- 1 in Custody After Lockdown at Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi
- Suspect facing two arson charges for mid-week fire in Bowie
- Woman Jailed After Accidentally Stabbing Boyfriend Twice
- Texas man steals from Target, tries to sell items in parking lot
- Laredo couple allegedly used kids to steal tools at Home Depot
- DPS: $3,000 Reward Offered for Most Wanted Sex Offender from Fort Worth
- San Antonio head football coach arrested in Early on assault charge
- Abilene bank robbery suspect still at large, APD asking for assistance statewide
- Arrested: Abilene woman accused of laundering more than $300K stolen in online scams
- San Angelo man fires shots from SUV, waves gun in air at park
- AMBER Alert issued for Val Verde County teen
- Mesquite police arrest middle school student after online threat made to 2 Mesquite ISD schools
- Increased police presence seen at Pecos Barstow Toyah ISD schools following social media threat
- Suspected gunman in shooting near Salado shoots himself while being pulled over in Milam County VIDEO
- Judge stops oppression trial of TDCJ Smith Unit major at prosecutor’s request
- Wife of slain Texas Tech officer sues for $1 million or more
- Lubbock man still charged with murder but going to prison on another charge
- Floydada Police need help finding missing woman
- Man’s body found in canal in Missouri City
- Store clerk killed during robbery on Houston’s south side
- Shooter opens fire on Southwest Freeway, injuring 2
- 2nd person charged in fatal shooting over diamond-plated teeth
- North Texas Man Points Fake Gun at Police, Shot Dead
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- City of Lubbock to consider new zoning ordinance with mixed-use residential, commercial developments
- Lubbock to charge both reconnect and disconnect fees for water – a new tax of $15 on some consumers disguised as a fee cut! The smarmy Mayor Pope strikes again.
- Lubbock Police hire new Public Information Officer
- Lubbock Co. commissioners accept resignation of Dr. Sam Andrews, appoints Dr. John Lang as acting ME, more, more
- AG: Dismiss the City of Austin’s Baseless Lawsuit Over Imagined Future Litigation
- Austin parking meters will cost $2 an hour starting next week
- Austin Divide Over Controversial Homelessness Ordinance Continues to Grow
- Misplaced concern at Austin ISD
- San Antonio police chief, sheriff at odds over chase, traffic accident that left officer injured
- Scooter companies want their San Antonio proposals kept secret
- City of Odessa updating parks master plan
- Eastland County Commissioners’ Court accepts resignation of Pct. 2 commissioner
- City of Abilene: Reconstruction of 30 intersections begins Monday
- Arlington ISD has a smart, new approach to preventing the next mass shooting
- Tim Harry: Restoring Accountability in Odessa, Ector County
- Harris Co: Complaint against visiting judge may lead to wider review
- Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Faces Allegations of Cronyism and Mismanagement as Election Looms
- Property taxes to go up as Hutto OKs $90.4 million budget – “…will increase property taxes by about $301 for the average homeowner because of bonds approved by voters and a 22.5% property tax increase.”
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- Conservatism Under Fire on Campus (UNT especially)
- While Texas State underreported campus crime, former employees say some surveillance cameras and emergency phones were broken
- Wayland Hosting Hank the Cowdog
- TTU Public Art Program Debuts ‘Oblique Intersection’ VIDEO
- TTU Pilot Study Shows Adding Horses May Improve Outcomes In Childhood Obesity Therapy
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- San Antonio said to likely avoid looming cuts to military medicine
- Soldier praised as hero during El Paso shooting arrested after going AWOL
- 1 in Custody After Lockdown at Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi
Pratt’s post for 10/7/2019
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