- Lt. Gov. Patrick threatens medical board over surprise billing rule
- After millions hacked, new Texas law requires businesses to report data breaches VIDEO
- Texas power regulators weighing whether financial ties must be disclosed
- Lawmakers Made Progress With Mental Health Policy In 2019 AUDIO
- With Judicial Commission On Mental Health, Civil And Criminal Courts Join Forces AUDIO
- Texas higher education commissioner promises statewide improvements
- The Back Mic: Texas GOP Memo, Interim Charges, and a New Senate Committee
- As Texas elections get tighter, more third-party candidates are making inroads
- Texas Alliance for Life Releases First Round of Endorsements for Federal Offices
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- TX2: Second Democrat launches challenge to Crenshaw
- Report: McCaul recommended Trump administration official who resigned over misleading resumé
- Bill in Congress to cap interest rates on payday loans hits home for Texans – when you cap the amount that can be charged, you raise the overall risk for lenders and thus you shrink the amount of credit available.
- Proposed change to SNAP could cut program benefits by $4.5B over 5 years
- Trump administration plans to open national forests in Texas to more oil and gas drilling
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- Impeachment/investigation/innuendo
- Dems ask Trump if he wants lawyers at impeachment hearings
- Details of FBI counterspy bias revealed
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Democrats may not realize the trouble they are in
- Fact Checker Calls Out Elizabeth Warren over ‘Public School’ Falsehood
- Kamala Harris Staff Admit: ‘We Still Do Not Have a Real Plan to Win’
- New York Times’ piece on Kamala Harris’ campaign is something else
- Harry Reid Staffer Jabs Buttigieg: ‘Sneaky Pete’ Only Got 8,500 Votes in His Last Election
- Bloomberg: Darned right we need to tax the poor
- Entrepreneur says Democrat tax plans may force him to move out of the country
- BET Founder Bob Johnson: No Democrat Candidate Can Defeat Trump
- Trump Smacks Newsweek for Their False Story of What He Was Doing on Thanksgiving
- Tim Allen decries ‘thought police,’ political correctness in comedy
- Lindsey Graham blasts Dems’ treatment of Trump: ‘Salem witches got a better deal’
- Trump vows not to change the name of Thanksgiving despite cries from the ‘radical left’ VIDEO
- Robert Redford slams Donald Trump’s ‘dictator-like attack’ on democracy: ‘We’re up against a crisis’ – another actor showing his ignorance
- Mills: New York seeks retribution for alleged climate change damages
- ACLU’s request to block New Hampshire’s voter residency law denied
- Government workers more likely to support socialism, repealing Second Amendment: Poll
- Greta the Teenage Climate Puppet Goes Full Marxist
- On Abortion, Democrats Need to Adjust to Political Reality
- Daily Show producer celebrates Thanksgiving by publicly ridiculing his Trump-supporting grandfather
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- Border / immigration
- Progressives decry fake ICE university – turns out it was created under President Obama
- More than 100 show at San Antonio immigration court for artificial hearing date
- Top Mexican Border State Cop Spiked Probes into Prison Corruption
- Mexican President Rejects Any Prospect Of US Military Intervention Against Drug Cartels
- Tamualipas: Tropa del Infierno Convoy On the Outskirts of Nuevo Laredo VIDEO
- Mexican Farmers Abandon Lands After Gulf Cartel Attacks near Texas Border
- Schools Teach Refugee, Migrant Kids Skills to Succeed in US
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- Business
- Rig Count Summary, U.S. oil and gas rig count dips again
- Texas oil explorers say predictions of growth contradict dire reality
- Oil slides as OPEC heavyweights broadcast bearish supply signals
- Saudi Arabia signals it’s had enough of OPEC+ quota cheats
- Reporter’s Notebook: Natural gas producers in sad state
- TPC Group has long history, spotty environmental record, Port Neches plant rocked by multiple explosions was declared high priority violator by EPA
- Seadrill unveils its first hybrid-powered offshore drilling rig
- Chevron sells its natural gas assets in Colombia
- Targa Resources finds buyer for Permian Basin crude oil assets
- Pemex communications still spotty after crippling cyberattack
- More Texas generation capacity next summer will ease tight conditions
- Renewables get a boost from lower cost batteries
- Houston’s Downtown Cambria hotel awarded AAA Four Diamond Hotel designation
- Katy Mills Mall will be completely transformed by the end of the year
- America’s Cattle Ranchers Are Fighting Back Against Fake Meat
- San Antonio chef, restaurant companies go bankrupt
- Mooney closes its Kerrville aviation headquarters and plant
- Black Friday crowds thinned by early holiday deals, online shopping
- VC fund leader sees promise in Austin’s startup scene
- New Hockey Team in Wichita Falls Now Has a Name – The Warriors
- Verify: Can Walmart make you show a receipt? – I’ve made them take an entire basket of items back and refund my money over this.
- Why does Texas-based USAA have an ‘F’ rating from the BBB? And why doesn’t the company seem to care?
- New Frost Tower Transforms San Antonio’s Skyline and Streetscape
- Union Pacific Sues to Nullify Old Jobs Pact With Palestine
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Mandatory evacuation lifted following TPC fire, Chemical plant blast highlights life in a company town, Fire glows in ghost town
- Chem plant blast was bad, could’ve been a lot worse
- League City man charged with murder in wife’s shooting death on Thanksgiving
- These Houston teachers were accused of inappropriate conduct
- Thanksgiving cooking mishap leaves home as ‘total loss’
- Texas man cleared after serving 3 years for day care assault
- Odessa man run over, killed chasing family
- Community, local business shocked by Apex car wash double homicide
- Report: Man enters Abilene woman’s backyard, chokes her with bungee cord
- Man stabbed outside Abilene bar; 20+ police officers respond
- Abilene police offer cash rewards for 7 wanted criminals
- Coca-Cola truck turns over in Tuscola VIDEO
- Rollover crash has Sweetwater police warning drivers to stay safe
- Groundless claims blur line between Odessa mass shootings, 2020 politics
- Man shot outside Lubbock club overnight after gunshots ring out
- Borger man dies after crashing into trailer during Quanah grass fire
- Managers grateful for community support after Petersburg Cotton Gin Fire VIDEO
- Texas DPS reports one killed in Yoakum County rollover
- Box truck driver dead after veering into I-45 lanes, crashing into pickup
- Friends: Houston-Area Family Killed in Canadian Plane Crash
- Man killed in Gun Barrel City house fire on Thanksgiving Day
- Anti-Wimp: Robber eyes lotto tickets, clerk shoots him
- Austin Fire Department responds to fire at shopping center on Stassney Lane
- One dead, another injured in North Austin shooting
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- Local government
- Austin’s Adler, Gov. Abbott incommunicado over homeless issue
- San Antonio becomes latest city considering anti-pipeline resolution
- Alamo Plaza Redesign Should Not Leave Woolworth Building Behind
- San Antonio Officers ‘Ernie And Joe’ Are Changing The Way Police Respond To Mental Health Calls AUDIO
- School District Consolidation on San Antonio’s South Side Will Take Political Bravery, But It Can Be Done
- Austin area meets federal ozone standards
- More than a year into job, Edgewood ISD superintendent puts priority on access
- Bastrop school board fires teacher accused of improper relationship
- Ector Co. ISD to transition to full-day Pre-k come August 2020
- Breckenridge ISD selects Superintendent search firm
- Wichita Falls: Bike friendly community action plan considered
- Wichita Falls council to consider 4B funding for lofts
- City of Abilene looking for solutions to downtown parking problem
- Union Pacific Sues to Nullify Old Jobs Pact With Palestine
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- Colleges & universities
- UT professors present Hispanic Equity Report to Texas House Representatives
- Report deems UT “not affordable” for low and middle income students
- PETA gives UT dining A+ for vegan options
- Texas higher education commissioner promises statewide improvements
- At Austin Community College, students and shelter pets grow together
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- Military
- On Thanksgiving, San Antonio troops find a home far from home
- Air Force, firm to revamp mold-infested homes at San Antonio’s Randolph air base
Pratt’s post for 11/29/2019
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