- Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to reduce licensing regulations, cut fees
- Governor Abbott Orders Agencies to Cut Regulations by December 1
- Comptroller Hegar: Occupational Licensing: How Much Is Too Much?
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joins effort to stop Fort Worth hospital from taking 9-month-old off life support
- Can Karl Rove save Texas House for GOP? – as I’ve explained, this is a PAC to help liberal Republican members regain full power in the House.
- The Back Mic: Karl Rove PAC, Abbott Endorsements at Odds with Bonnen Targets and TLR
- After Cocaine Bust, Could Drug Testing Come to Texas Legislature? – I oppose
- Alamo project under way, but with more battlefronts looming
- Nonprofit foster care providers push back against federal judge’s ‘one size fits all’ mandates – good, Judge Jacks is off the rails
- Golf cart, off-highway-vehicle regulations to be in full throttle by mid-December
- Texas sees drop in child-obesity rates in lower-income families
- Abbott Appoints Holt To State Commission on Judicial Conduct
- Abbott Appoints Bradbury And Frank To Texas Farm And Ranch Lands Conservation Council
- Why is Texas Acting Like a Blue State and Trying to Stop T-Mobile-Sprint Merger?
- San Antonio paid sick leave requirement blocked by state judge
- Feds order Texas Education Agency to pay fired special education director more than $200,000
- Police Chief U. Renee Hall: State troopers will stay in Dallas to help protect our people
- Unions a demonstrable fraud upon Texas workers
- Analysis: Whatever color Texas is, everybody’s running like it’s purple – good, a GOP wake-up is needed
- Bloomberg Targets Texas
- Joe Straus Calls On Supreme Court To Rule for Homosexual Plaintiffs
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- TX12: Candidate Chris Putnam On Mission to “Fundam
- entally Change” Washington
- Trump: I stand with Hong Kong — but also with President Xi – disgusting
- Ted Cruz vows that Congress will override Trump if he vetoes bill denouncing China’s crackdown in Hong Kong
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn Praise Confirmation of US Marshal for South Texas
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn Introduce Bill to Protect Water Supply Future of Texas
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn, Rep. Conaway Bill Renaming Odessa VA Clinic Passes Congress
- FCC Chairman Pai’s Proposed Auction Is Law and Good Policy
- First black federal judge in San Antonio takes bench
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- Impeachment/investigation/innuendo
- Rep. Will Hurd sticks with Republicans during last public impeachment hearing of the week
- Sen. Cruz: ‘What’s Happening in the House Has Become an Absolute Circus’ AUDIO
- Mark Levin to Adam Schiff: You are the Democrat Party’s Yamamoto, You Have Just Awakened a Sleeping Giant
- Rep. Joaquin Castro’s questioning has aided Democrats’ impeachment case – really?
- Questioner, aggressor, professor, and team player: How Texas congressmen played impeachment hearings
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- Presidential race / national politics
- How Julián Castro turned his debate absence to his advantage – fatuous non-thinking
- Castro: ‘People Noticed’ My Absence From November Debate
- Warren Names Three Congresswomen as Campaign Co-Chairs
- Elizabeth Warren Calls for a ‘Full-Blown National Conversation About Reparations’
- Klobuchar Makes 1st Hires in Nevada With Ex-O’Rourke Staff – losers for a loser
- Democratic establishment reaches boiling point with Tulsi Gabbard – but she’s a nut-case Leftist too.
- Biden at Democrat debate: ‘Donald Trump doesn’t want me to be the nominee’
- Biden says ‘you should vote for Trump’ after being confronted with what happened when he was VP
- Pete Buttigieg, Failure
- The Democratic Debates Continue to Bleed Viewers, This Time With a Significant Loss
- What If Michael Moore Really Is the Center of the Democratic Party Now?
- Pro-Lifers Shouldn’t Despair over the Daleiden Verdict
- Al Gore on climate-change threat: ‘This is the Battle of the Bulge. This is 9/11’
- Former George Soros Board Member Fiona Hill Condemns Soros Criticism as ‘Anti-Semitic Trope’
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- Border / immigration
- Asylum-Seekers in Arizona to Be Bused to Texas, Then Mexico
- 200 Migrants Apprehended After Crossing Arizona Border
- Eight Human Smugglers Arrested near Texas Border
- Dozens of illegal aliens surrender to border agents during ride-along in South Texas VIDEO
- ‘Walls work,’ declares DHS head during visit to South Texas border VIDEO
- Interactive Art Installation Lets Strangers Talk To Each Other Across The Border
- Juarez, Chihuahua: La Línea Cartel Kills Undercover Female Officer VIDEO
- 80,000 Texas immigrants stuck in naturalization limbo as 2020 elections loom
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- Business
- North America Rotary Rig Count Summary, more
- Oil hits 9-week high as China extends olive branch to U.S.
- Billionaire Wilks fracking brothers hammered by Permian holdings – don’t worry, they are just fine!
- Another record year expected for Gulf of Mexico oil production
- Energy slowdown blamed for Houston steel plant closure
- American Airlines has bumped more passengers this year than all other U.S. airlines combined
- At invitation-only summit in North Texas, aviation futurists talk progress toward flying cars, electric aircraft
- Summer price spikes reaching residential electric bills
- Mexican Government Sues Walmart for El Paso Mass Shooting
- New USDA pilot program aimed to help Texoma farmers
- First Marvel Comics issue sells in Texas for $1.26 million
- Feds sue Texas McDonald’s franchisee for sexual harassment
- Houstonians go crazy for In-N-Out Burger launch
- Lake Flato Lands in No. 1 Spot on List of Nation’s Top Architecture Firms
- Austin housing market on pace for record year
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Dallas police officer arrested on DWI charge
- 5 Indicted for Sexual Abuse, Bribery at Hidalgo Co. Jail
- Dallas Co. Sheriff’s Deputies Accused of Stealing From Dallas Store After Tornado
- Police officer at Parkland Hospital in Dallas arrested on sex assault charge
- Waco: VA medical center police lieutenant paid girl, 15, for sex
- Gerald Goines, the Houston police officer at center of fatal drug raid, pleads not guilty on federal charges
- Woman surrenders after exchanging gunfire with officer in Far North Dallas
- 2nd suspect arrested in slaying of Allen High football player
- Dallas police looking for suspect in fight that left man dead
- East Texas Legionnaires’ Outbreak Linked to Hot Tub Display
- Police: Baby in Irving Restaurant’s Trash Can Was Stillborn
- Man Pleads Guilty After Ramming Truck Into Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi
- Man arrested in connection to attempted ATM heist with explosive device, authorities say
- Lubbock atheists: Homeless Outreach Event was a Major Success!
- Wichita Falls woman arrested for throwing wood at child
- Woman out on bond for Manslaughter arrested after allegedly breaking into home
- Texoma’s Most Wanted as of November 22, 2019
- Former Brownwood pastor’s wife arrested on witness tampering charge
- Man found not guilty of murdering Abilene teen in 2017
- Shane Smith and the Saints band’s tour bus destroyed by fire in Coleman
- Man arrested after Thursday hit and run in Abilene
- DPS: Suspect opens fire at trooper during police chase in Eastland County
- Debi Holland Gets 15 Years for Perpetuating Daughter’s Abuse, more
- Nazareth man killed after crashing into guard rail near Childress Thursday night
- 1 arrested after torch used for narcotics sets couch on fire
- Teens shot, police searching for gunman in northeast Houston
- Four Aldine ISD students taken to hospital after school bus is struck by car
- Clear Creek Intermediate school crossing guard struck by car, taken to hospital
- Handcuffed suspect escapes from Houston police custody
- Major Texas engineering firm headed by ex-UT regent admits to hundreds of thousands in illegal campaign contributions
- Anti-Wimp: Concealed carry holder detains suspect at Temple Raising Cane’s
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- Local government
- San Antonio paid sick leave requirement blocked by state judge, more
- Judge Gives Final Approval to Houston-Area Bail Deal – not good
- Sylvester Turner vs. Tony Buzbee: Here’s what you need to know about Houston’s mayoral candidates
- Mansfield ISD’s superintendent finalist dropped from lawsuit against district by homosexual teacher who was suspended
- Ector County Jail in need of more room, staff members
- Chevron donates $75,000 to Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD
- Lubbock fire marshal set to retire
- Lubbock ISD board votes to close Smylie Wilson Middle School, open it as new magnet school
- Grand Prairie ISD whistleblower who dished on poor spending practices lost his job. He’s suing.
- Police Chief U. Renee Hall: State troopers will stay in Dallas to help protect our people
- Montgomery County Becomes Largest “Gun Sanctuary” County
- “Sanctuary City for the Unborn” Ordinance Passes in West Texas Town of Westbrook
- Panther Island Flood Control Boondoggle to Exceed $1 Billion, Report Casts Doubt on Project Management
- Travis Co. Appraisal District board gets earful about impact of barring face-to-face appeals
- Austin reopens Red Bud Isle after blue-green algae bloom subsides
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- Colleges & universities
- UT protesters interrupt class to confront professor who violated sexual misconduct policies
- MSU: Margie Johnson Reese chosen to speak before fall graduates
- MSU recognized for international student community VIDEO
- Hardin-Simmons hosts ring ceremony for upcoming December and August graduates
- Respected Broadway actress honored as ACU distinguished alumna
- TTU SGA supports increase in health, wellness fee, discusses campus initiatives – when does the SGA not support raising “taxes” in students? SGA’s act like most Chambers of Commerce and are all about growing programs.
- Bringing conservatism back to colleges
- Texas A&M-SA to Work With Southside Districts to Improve Teaching, Student Outcomes
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- Military
- President Trump Pays Respects to Army Officers Killed in Afghanistan
Pratt’s post for 11/22/2019
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