- Governor Abbott Holds Press Conference On Coronavirus, Declares State Of Disaster For All Texas Counties
- Governor Abbott Declares State of Disaster In Texas Due To COVID-19 – official declaration
- Texas’ Governor Declares State of Disaster From Coronavirus, more, more, more VIDEO
- Texas Governor Resists Making Calls on Canceling Events
- Quarantine: What Powers Does the Texas Government Have During an Epidemic?
- Does Texas Have Constitutional Carry Due to Abbott’s Coronavirus Disaster Declaration?
- Speaker Bonnen cancels all non-legislative gatherings in House chamber, hearing rooms, and Reagan building
- DPS Takes Preventative Measures Against COVID-19, Encourages Texans to do the Same
- TDCJ suspends prison visitation statewide due to coronavirus threat
- See coronavirus section lower down on the page for more.
- 4 Things Every Texas Parent Needs to Know About Sex-Education
- Gun Policy in Texas: What Will or Will Not Actually Make Us Safer? VIDEO
- Medicaid Expansion & Housing Without Help Will Hurt Austin’s Homeless
- AG Paxton Defends Religious Freedom and Due Process for Churches of Magnolia
- Coronavirus upends politics as voters `hunker down,’ avoiding rallies and snubbing door-to-door canvassers
- The Back Mic: Highlights from Bonnen’s Radio Appearance
- National touting of Texas Democrat voter turnout is to raise money
- Travis Co. Republicans deny Robert Morrow delegate spot to local convention
- Candidates in Close Republican 7th Court of Appeals Race Left Off Ballot
- HD47: Zimmerman will not seek recount after Justin Berry beat him by one vote; Berry advances to runoff against Fleck
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Beto O’Rourke has some advice for Texas’ U.S. Senate candidates
- Austin doctor, Democrat, running for Congress suspends events over coronavirus concerns – of course he does.
- Trump declares national state of emergency over coronavirus VIDEO
- Trump’s Coronavirus Address and What It Means for Texans – see more in coronavirus section below.
- Tourists catching final peek at U.S. Capitol before it closes to public are unfazed by coronavirus, mostly
- Sen. Cruz, Rep. Weber Lead Texas Delegation in FEMA Appeal on Imelda Funding
- E-Verify Doesn’t Need to Reject Lots of Workers to Be Effective
- Bernie Sanders, other senators want to clarify El Paso Electric buyer’s ‘true ownership’ – environmental group doing great damage
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Michael Bloomberg promised to “help turn Texas blue.” Now some former employees and politicians are miffed that he’s fired his staff. – Dems who believe the word of other Dems deserve what they get. They subscribe to a philosophy that is inherently untruthful.
- Joe Biden as real fighter is Beltway wishful thinking
- If Biden becomes president, he will declare war on your religious freedoms
- Biden’s Coronavirus Proposal Cribs Heavily from Trump Administration
- WaPo Busts Joe Biden Ad: Four Pinocchios for ‘Video Manipulation’ of Trump’s Coronavirus Comments
- Pete Buttigieg Mocks Trump, Sarah Palin While Guest Hosting for Jimmy Kimmel VIDEO – he can do this with no audience because he is used to silence following his “jokes” on the campaign trail.
- ABC Tries and Spectacularly Fails to Bait Wuhan Virus Task Force Member Into Bashing Trump
- Failed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Democrat Andrew Gillum Involved in Suspected Crystal Meth Incident, more
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- Border / immigration
- 600 Mexican Cartel Members Arrested Across U.S.A., Says DEA
- Human Smugglers Leave Pregnant Migrant, Unborn Child to Die After Fall from U.S. Border Wall
- E-Verify Doesn’t Need to Reject Lots of Workers to Be Effective
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- Business
- Baker Hughes oil & gas rotary rig county summary
- If the Saudis think an oil-price war will crush West Texas, they don’t understand Texas
- Oil woes bring lowest Texas gas prices in more than a year
- Oil Takes Worst Weekly Tumble Since 2008 on Supply-Demand Shock
- Occidental deploys poison pill as Icahn targets board
- Colorado hits Occidental with record $18.25M penalty for 2017 Firestone home explosion
- Shale drillers float Jones Act waiver as balm for price pain
- Saudis send oil tanker rates soaring with huge booking spree
- Apache, Noble Energy make large spending cuts after oil crash
- More Houston energy companies slash spending
- Tellurian lays off nearly half of its workers, shuffles executives
- Port of Corpus Christi to slash spending after market meltdown
- Austin’s Silicon Labs plans $308M acquisition of California tech firm Redpine Signals
- Neiman Marcus to Close Most Discount Stores, Focus on Luxury – wise move, the outlet move cheapened the brand.
- Neiman Marcus to sell Longview distribution center
- Bernie Sanders, other senators want to clarify El Paso Electric buyer’s ‘true ownership’
- Comcast speeds up low-income service, AT&T drops caps in coronavirus responses
- AT&T CEO gets 10% pay raise in 2019 after two years of getting less than 2% gains
- Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags Fiesta Texas suspend operations through end of March
- Corpus Christi-based STX Beef gets new CEO
- Lands’ End’s first standalone store in Texas coming to Frisco, in the Centre at Preston Ridge
- Plano’s Shops at Willow Bend loan is in default
- American Airlines is capping ticket prices for travel between Europe and the U.S.
- American Airlines will freeze hiring, cut more flights and retire planes as coronavirus threat grows
- Frisco technology company donates its disease-monitoring app to all U.S. public schools
- GameStop’s activist investors – after being ‘muted’ – ask for a stock representative on board
- Aerospace giant’s DFW expansion shows importance of manufacturing in North Texas
- Inc. Magazine: 35% of state’s fastest-growing private companies call DFW home
- Byron Allen makes $8.5 billion offer for KHOU owner Tegna
- Howard Hughes Corp. postpones events at Houston communities amid threat of coronavirus
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- Coronavirus related
- Trump’s Coronavirus Address and What It Means for Texans
- Lackland quarantine increases to 149 as second group arrives from Grand Princess cruise ship
- Bexar County school districts to resume classes Monday — for now
- Coronavirus worries prompt San Antonio employers to ban travel, work remotely and even close
- In rural Texas, precautions are their best protection from coronavirus
- Houston doctors frustrated by lack of coronavirus test kits
- UT, St. Edward’s, ACC, Concordia cancel Friday classes, close Austin campuses
- Coronavirus in Austin: 4 test positive, including UT president’s family members
- Man in 60s, woman in 30s test positive for coronavirus in Austin
- Sports world coming to terms with widespread shutdown
- Will 3,060 Americans die daily due to COVID-19? – the problem with all of this is massive sample bias. We simply do not have a good idea of how many people actually have been infected because only those with serious symptoms of disease seek care and of those even fewer have been tested. The frightening numbers shrink to way below standard flu
- Bass Concert Hall postpones events over coronavirus concerns
- Coronavirus in Texas: Nearly 160,000 college students get extended spring break
- Coronavirus concern: Ted Cruz extends self-quarantine after 2nd contact
- In age of coronavirus, finding a friend in a jar of peanut butter
- Sen. Bob Casey: Easier to Get an AR-15 than a Coronavirus Test – good but if you think about this it should be that way. AR-15’s are manufactured by many for years, the virus test is brand new and is just being scaled up in production but Casey thinks his line clever, so do stupid people.
- WH States Nancy Pelosi Wants Hyde Amendment Loophole in Virus Stimulus
- Coronavirus: Mnuchin Floats Pause on Student Loan Payments – more take advantage of a crisis B.S. that has nothing to do with stopping spread or healing the infected.
- San Antonio’s Fiesta will be postponed until November
- Midland Memorial Hospital: No one has met specifications for coronavirus testing
- Wichita Falls succumbs to panic, cancels St. Patrick’s Day Festival, W.F. mayor: No cases in city.
- Big Country Balloon Fest, scheduled for Sept. 2020, canceled amid coronavirus concerns – SEPTEMBER!!!! Insanity!
- Outlaws & Legends Music Fest goes on
- Party on: South Padre Island Spring Break to continue
- South Texas State Fair a go despite shutdown of Houston Rodeo
- Former Miss Lubbock gives account of life in Italy amid shutdown
- Azar: Linking Patients to Coronavirus Tests ‘Has Not Been as Seamless as We’d Like’ VIDEO
- Help these RodeoHouston vendors bounce back after losing business to the coronavirus – also throw out the bums who canceled this.
- PGA Tour Cancels Events, Including 2 In Texas, For A Month Amid Coronavirus Concerns
- Texas Bear Round Up is canceled – this is a big annual homosexual event!
- Coronavirus Is Spreading In Texas — More Than 4 Million Texans Don’t Have Paid Sick Leave – more of the Democrat effort to use virus panic to push a political agenda.
- Federal Efforts Slowing Down Texas County Response – typical Democrat politicking on the issue. The Feds are getting the kits produced, not slowing it down.
- Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags Fiesta Texas suspend operations through end of March
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Police: Rio Hondo city commissioner arrested for abuse of corpse
- Judge prolongs accused Santa Fe school shooter’s stay at Vernon health facility
- Texas Megachurch Pastor, Kirbyon Caldwell, Pleads Guilty to Bilking Investors
- Officials: Body found at Travis recycling plant was 31-year-old Louisiana man
- San Angelo Police investigating fatal crash involving 19-year-old
- Lubbock Police Investigate Drive-By Shooting at 34th & Slide
- 6 men indicted on federal sex crimes in Lubbock court
- Man killed, woman injured in shooting near Hobby Airport
- Police nab Montrose robbery suspect after pursuit in Houston
- Insurance firm sues border patrol agent accused of killing his wife
- San Juan PD searching for murder suspect
- Harlingen man involved in fatal hit and run accident receives four year prison sentence
- McAllen man faces charges stemming from waterboarding allegations
- Wrong-Way Crash Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured in Fort Worth
- Man Found Shot Multiple Times in Dallas VIDEO
- Armed Suspect Killed By SWAT Officer During Rescue Of Child At Garland Home
- Judge: Texan woman defamed Steve Wynn with police report of rape
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- Local government
- Port Aransas wants to stifle oil industry to keep its coastal vibe – funny, when we’ve been to the coast our favorite thing was watching the giant tankers. Everyone wants economic gain but never in their backyard. In the case of Port A, there has shipping including oil for decades.
- Midland Co. Jail Lawsuit: Inmate overdosed before being put in isolation
- County Commissioners seal the deal on Archer County Museum
- Tom Green County jury trials are canceled for the remainder of the month
- Medicaid Expansion & Housing Without Help Will Hurt Austin’s Homeless
- Austin’s $10B Transit Plan Could Mean Massive Tax Increase
- Financial watchdog finds big debt in Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth
- Churches in Magnolia Challenge City for Hiking Water Fees Without Due Process
- Galveston right to be wary about palm tree ordinance
- Angelina County seeking bids to finish remodeling work in DA’s offices
- Hudson city council approves 10-year energy plan
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- Colleges & universities
- Probe: Ex-Texas Southern University Leader Knew About Fraud
- Audit: Texas Southern gave scholarships to academically weak students
- HSU BSM Spends Spring Break Sharing Gospel on South Padre Island
- Red Raider Return Campaign aims to help students abroad return home
- Higher Education Has Lost a Champion of Innovation
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- Military
- Ft. Hood Soldier from Oklahoma killed in Iraq Identified
Pratt’s post for 3/13/2020
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