Limited press review today (still more than most hosts!)
- Appeals court overturns mandate for Texas to implement online voter registration for drivers – predicted win for sanity.
- Come and Take It: What Will and What Will Not Improve Public Safety in Firearm Violence Prevention
- Constitutional Carry Now Legal in Oklahoma, Still Illegal in Texas
- Texas Democrats Challenge Their Own Election Law as “Unfair”
- AG Paxton Statement on DACA Supreme Court Argument
- Texas Attorney General Allows Water District Cover-Up
- CLAIM: Pro-Life Groups Didn’t Support Pro-Life Bills
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces Recognition for Financial Reporting
- Abbott Reappoints Bickerstaff To Board For Lease Of Texas Parks And Wildlife Lands
- Governor Abbott Announces Workforce Development Grant In Dallas
- Abbott Reappoints Medary Presiding Judge Of Fifth Administrative Judicial Region
- Spotlight on Texas’ ‘10-day rule’ in life support cases
- African American studies course could be coming to Texas high schools
- Sid Miller heard a Confederate group was excluded from a Veteran’s Day parade. His Facebook response? “Get a rope.” – these media Leftist keep demonstrating how out of touch with Texas culture they are in getting lathered up over such a common, comment of levity by Miller.
- Lawsuit alleges Harvey federal aid favors white homeowners over minority renters
- Analysis: For Texas candidates, 2020 officially started last weekend
- HD108: Surprising poll shows Democrat ahead of Rep. Morgan Meyer in Dallas – worrisome but it is a PPP poll
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Kay Granger is the most senior Republican woman in the U.S. House. But her reelection could turn into an intra-GOP battle. – probably time for Kay to go.
- TX23: Retiring U.S. Rep. Will Hurd endorses candidate to succeed him – it is actually an example of Will Hurd’s near incredible hubris.
- Several events planned in memory of former U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland on Sunday, Nov. 17
- Sen. Cruz Remarks on Senate Commerce Committee Passing the NASA Authorization Act of 2019 – so much waste
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- Impeachment/investigation/innuendo
- These Texans to play role in impeachment hearings VIDEO
- As Trump impeachment hearings go public, previous transcripts shed light on roles Texas lawmakers may play
- ‘Lady in Red:’ Drag queen on Capitol Hill for impeachment hearingsv
- Congressman Jodey Arrington calls impeachment hearings “BS”
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Castro critique of Iowa and NH both brave and beside the point – in other words, he and other race-based Leftist think the Democratic Party should re-order itself, just as they think the nation should, to give them an advantage over others – not equality of chance but an advantage. Typical.
- Julián Castro is poised to miss the cutoff for the November debate. Then what?
- Texas is getting even more love from presidential and congressional campaigns
- LGBTQ [homosexual] Activists Attack Salvation Army
- Judge voids agreement on 3D-printed guns – “The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech from all abridgment — including indirect censorship efforts like this one,” Flores said. Correct.
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- Border / immigration
- US Proposes Tougher Rules on Work Permits for Asylum-Seekers
- AG Paxton Statement on DACA Supreme Court Argument
- Webb County’s Facilities Overwhelmed with Dead Migrants
- Large Group of Guatemalans in Camouflage Caught After Sneaking into Texas
- Los Zetas Cartel Clones Police Vehicles near Texas Border
- FBI Now in Mexico to Probe Mormon Family Murders
- Cutting immigration won’t help Texas economy – that’s not the issue morons
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- Business
- Tyler Technologies Hit With Patent-Infringement Claim
- Ridership on Amtrak’s Long-Distance Texas Routes Down Over 4% – what a pleasure people are missing.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Texas Man Arrested After Teen Daughter Found Dead in River
- Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender Steve Lopez Arrested
- Police officers, crime scene vehicle respond to field in West Lubbock – related to Maegan Hembree case
- Sheriff: Nothing found in search for missing Meagan Hembree from Smyer
- Suspect in high-speed chase named person of interest in Dimmitt homicide
- Man charged with murder of small child in Brownfield VIDEO
- Pair indicted, charged with aggravated robbery after man is robbed and dumped in cotton field
- Sweetwater police: Man dies from gunshot wounds, foul play suspected
- San Angelo police searching for suspected child predator
- Amber Alert issued for 14-year-old girl from San Antonio area
- FBI arrests man in connection to website that traffics in child sex abuse stories
- Feds: Man caught at Bush airport with $400K of liquid cocaine in shampoo bottles
- Apparent snitch sends cocaine to Houston police with list of alleged dealers
- Officer hospitalized after crash with wrong-way driver in Houston’s Midtown
- Man spotted with no seatbelt leads Houston police on lengthy, dramatic pursuit
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- Local government
- Lubbock Co. sues long list of companies saying 77.6 million pills distributed locally as fraudulent misconduct
- Lubbock ISD to vote to turn failing middle school into a STEM magnet school
- Abilene ISD offering incentives to battle bus driver shortageAbilene ISD offering incentives to battle bus driver shortage
- San Angelo investigating water bill security breach
- WFISD considers surplus for campus improvements
- Midland County Adult Probation Officers get pay raise
- Midland MISD $569M fails by 25 votes after incorrect results were given
- VisitDallas tax return reveals lots of six-figure salaries
- San Antonio employees collected $357,000 in administrative leave pay since 2016
- San Antonio’s Mayor Calls for Shifting Sales Tax to VIA Transit, Away From Aquifer Protection
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Longhorns AD Chris Del Conte set to receive contract extension worth $18 million through 2027
- TTU’s president Talks Mental Health Issues and 21 Gun Salute
- UTSA Professor: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Will Kill More People Than Cancer By 2050
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