- Patrick Blasts Bush, Alamo Project ‘Badly Off Track’
- On eve of Alamo battle anniversary, lieutenant governor starts new fight over moving Cenotaph – typical Express-News coloring of the issue.
- Lt. Gov. Patrick & Speaker Bonnen Announce New Legislative Budget Board Director
- Lt. Gov. Patrick Appointments: Windstorm Insurance Legislative Funding and Funding Structure Oversight Board
- TDI: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas to repay consumers for emergency claims, marketing errors
- As Californians flood into Texas, differences in the same history textbooks reflect a culture clash – diversity needs neither playing up or down, it simply is.
- A&M study: The future of Texas depends on climate preparedness – stupid as hell. The climate is always changing and at various speeds, all the changes these warmers predict are still very long term issues to which people naturally adapt. DEFUND this Leftist propaganda producing state office!
- ERCOT electric grid expected to handle record power use this summer
- In 2017, Texas leaders promised bold reforms to help child sex-trafficking victims. Here’s what’s changed — and what hasn’t.
- The cactus moth hits Texas, putting prickly pear in jeopardy
- New Election Integrity Project Launches in Texas
- Texas Democrats sue to keep straight-ticket voting, more
- Texas Democrats sue the state to keep straight-ticket voting in 2020
- Texas is only 1 of 10 states that use primary runoff system — here’s what that means
- Civil rights group demands Texas Secretary of State address Super Tuesday voting issues
- Democrats Say Texas Relentlessly Tries to Suppress Votes – another moron writer who doesn’t mention that elections are run by the county, not Texas and thus those heavy Democratic areas are being “suppressed” by Democrats!
- Harris County clerk apologizes to voters, “takes full responsibility” for long waits to vote in Houston – funny all the key detail the Trib left out of this, see this
- 7th Court of Criminal Appeals ballots missing in Cochran and Collingsworth County VIDEO
- HD142: Forced into runoff, Rep. Harold Dutton investigates opponent he says may not exist, more, more – another case of voters just voting based on the name. He should talk to Commissioner Ryan Sitton about that!
- Sweetwater museum director under fire for Facebook post saying Republican voters should die, more
- Controversial winner of Callahan Co. Sheriff’s race officially withdraws nomination
- Railroad Commission upset was big but the stunner was in TX11
- Just a quarter of registered voters in Texas participated in the 2020 presidential primary
- Inside a small-town polling place for an entire Super Tuesday – I have judged many elections in similar small polling locations, this is a fine write-up of how it is and the people you meet.
- A Post-Super Tuesday Roundup of State Legislative Runoff Elections
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Hegar and West are moderate Democrats, but draw distinctions – moderate compared to what? They are both very liberal and Hegar leans far Left.
- Democratic runoff to challenge Cornyn sets up crisp contrast between Hegar, West
- Cornyn slams potential opponents Hegar and West as trending toward ‘national democratic radicalism’
- Libs: Cornyn doesn’t seem to think voter suppression in Texas is real – it isn’t.
- TX21: Libs claim Wendy Davis has a real shot at making Chip Roy a one-term congressman
- Odessan who received clemency visits White House
- Sen. Cruz: ‘The ICC’s Campaign Against Our Troops Will Fail Because the United States Will Ensure That It Fails’
- Sen. Cruz Co-Sponsors Resolution to Censure Sen. Schumer for Threatening Supreme Court Justices
- Sens. Cruz, Rubio, Menendez, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Resolution Honoring Cuba’s Las Damas de Blanco
- Sens. Cruz, Others Applaud President Trump’s Commitment to Saving the Jobs of Blue-Collar Refinery Workers
- FISA court’s ban of Carter Page spies doesn’t go far enough
- Trump Administration Enforces Sanctions Sen. Cruz Called For Against the Ortega Regime
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn, Reps. Brady, Babin, Gohmert Urge U.S. Forest Service to Reopen Oil and Gas Development on Public Land in Texas
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Bernie Bro: There will be war if Dems, media kneecap Sanders with Biden bias
- In words and deeds, Texas Southern delivers for Joe Biden
- Does Joe Biden have a Latino problem in Texas?
- 1 America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence – don’t pass out laughing at this, the author really means it!
- Elizabeth Warren remains a factor by not endorsing
- Warren: Let’s face it, I took out Mike Bloomberg
- Warren: It’s just a fact that Bernie Bros use “organized nastiness” for intimidation
- Austinites seriously debate if Tulsi Gabbard is “a Russian asset”
- How Biden Consolidated
- Joe Biden’s Trial by Humiliation
- Trump: “There’s something going on” with Biden, right?
- Trump Complains About Fox News on Hannity: ‘I Think They’re Trying to Be Very Politically Correct’ – the Fox News news folk are only slightly less Leftist than the rest. There is a big separation between the news part and the opinion staff.
- The ‘Million Dollars Per Person’ Affair Is Telling
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- Border / immigration
- Deputies, Border Patrol track immigrants through mountains VIDEO
- More Illegal Aliens Deported than Apprehended at Border over Last 5 Months, Say Feds
- US Sending Military Police to Two Border Crossings
- Shooting shuts down Juarez airport, leaves car-rental employee wounded
- Mexican Cartel Gunmen Leave Dismembered Bodies as Threats to Rivals
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- Business
- Baker Hughes oil & gas rotary rig count
- OPEC+ talks collapse threatening Russia-Saudi oil alliance
- Freeport LNG gets green light for second export dock in Brazoria Co.
- Plunging oil prices might be just what U.S. gas drillers needed
- China’s top natural gas buyer cancels imports
- Exxon taps brakes on Permian Basin after virus hammers oil
- Exxon, Shell face uphill legal battle over soured Nigerian deal
- Former Andeavor exec launches Tatanka pipeline company with $500M investment
- Amarillo, Rattler form JV for natural gas gathering, processing system
- Southwest Airlines CEO warns drop-off in domestic travel over coronavirus has ‘9/11-like feel’
- BBB gives Addison-based online retailer “F” rating
- Reagor Dykes files for permission to shut it all down, sell what’s left, more
- Texas Ag Commissioner presents owner of Reddy Vineyards with award for dedication VIDEO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas to repay consumers for emergency claims, marketing errors
- First Texas hemp growers to face price slump – yep, as predicted
- Amplify Austin surpasses $7 million so far in 24-hour fundraiser
- Texas’ Housing Stock Never Fully Recovered From The Great Recession
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas judges tapped to enforce, if needed, coronavirus quarantines
- Governor Abbott, DSHS Announce Statewide Testing Capabilities For Coronavirus
- Governor Abbott, Attorney General Paxton Issue Joint Statement On Reports Of Price-Gouging Of Medical Supplies In Texas – price is set by demand, this is stupid
- How Texas would benefit from $8.3B coronavirus response package
- Source: 8 more possible coronavirus cases under investigation across Harris County
- Coronavirus hits Harris County, Fort Bend and the Houston area. Here’s what we know so far.
- Houston Officials Confirm First 3 Cases of Coronavirus
- UTMB Galveston holds town hall meeting to discuss coronavirus
- Coronavirus concerns grow: Common sense answers from experts
- 10 people on self-quarantine after contact with ‘presumptive positive’ coronavirus patient in Fort Bend County
- Fact-check: No, a Brownsville hospital is not treating coronavirus patients
- Experts say COVID-19 could hurt Texas trade and border economy
- Austin’s giant SXSW canceled over coronavirus fears – when near Austin there are many things I worry about catching, coronavirus is not one of them.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Video: Police Shocked UNT College Student Before Shooting – seems police were justified and it is a sad situation.
- Hays Co. “mother” sentenced after fatally stabbing child, 5, because she ‘asked for cereal’
- Construction worker hit, killed while putting out cones on Crosby Freeway, deputies say
- Heading to a beach for spring break? These are the areas in Texas that have elevated levels of fecal matter
- Bedridden man killed in house fire in Dayton, firefighters say
- Man accused of dumping thousands of tires across 2 counties, authorities say
- Three dead, one hospitalized after vehicle crashes into tree in NE Harris County, sheriff’s deputies say
- Destiny was 15 when her outcry sparked a #MeToo reckoning in Texas foster care. Now, the trial.
- Crews to remove egret habitat to avoid bird-strike risk
- Wichita Falls man indicted on child porn charges
- Burkburnett man arrested for child porn now arrested for sexual assault in less than a month
- Texoma’s Most Wanted Fugitives of the Week
- Terlingua businessman indicted by grand jury on sexual assault charge
- Monahans Police responding to barricaded suspect
- Mother accused of handcuffing son, whipping him with extension cord
- Arrest Made in Lubbock Pharmacy Robbery
- 33 charged with meth conspiracy, Lubbock PD and LCSO helped with investigation
- Lubbock police recovered frozen food items from inside suspect’s pants in theft case
- Retaliation Charge But No Drug Charges For Teen Who Fired AR-15, Threatened to Kill Deputies in Travis County the soft-on-crime continues.
- Three arrested in early-morning Central Texas drug raid
- Two teens in custody after violent Central Texas home invasion
- Waco: Trial date set for man accused of killing woman, infant
- Copperas Cove suffers citywide natural gas interruption
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- Local government
- San Antonio Adopts Program to Help Finance Green Buildings
- San Antonio City Council Calls for Improved Coordination with SA2020
- Appeals Court Puts Another Hold on San Antonio’s Paid Sick Leave Law
- Ransomware Attacks Prompt Tough Question for Local Officials: To Pay or Not to Pay?
- Austin’s Cap Metro recommends downtown subway system in multibillion-dollar light rail system – would be a decades’ long debacle.
- Travis County officials to discuss possible Co. Judge Eckhardt resignation at Tuesday meeting
- Wichita Falls: Freeman Paving chosen for $5.8 mil street rehab
- City of Graham orders water restrictions VIDEO
- Sweetwater museum director under fire for Facebook post saying Republican voters should die, more
- San Angelo seeks public opinion on capital improvement plan
- Who will lead Dallas’ park department?
- Harris County clerk apologizes to voters, “takes full responsibility” for long waits to vote in Houston
- Deadline set for City of Marlin to turn financial documents over to DA
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tech celebrates homosexuality with LGBTQIA & Allies Summit – expect your children to be told how great all of this is at Tech.
- TTU Honors College Student Receives Inaugural Fulbright-Mitacs Globalink Fellowship
- Texas Commissioner Of Higher Education Interested In Texas Tech’s Partnerships
- Kay Dillard’s generosity a boon to MSU Texas
- Vernon College to offer evening LVN program beginning fall 2020
- A Look Back: Hardin-Simmons’ Intercollegiate Aeronautics Program
- Long-term future of the UTPB Stem Academy remains up in the air
- UT sexual misconduct policy takes steps in the right direction, but leaves some questions unanswered
- UT-Arlington president plans to leave post in August
- Former British Prime Minister Theresa May addressed Trinity Univ. students
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- Military
- Brownwood meeting gathers insight for B21 bomber study VIDEO
Pratt’s post for 3/6/2020
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