- Cities, state bracing for hit to revenue – and they better start planning cuts in spending too but most will simply raise taxes
- Bipartisan outcry grows for sales tax relief for Texas bars and restaurants caught in the middle of COVID-19 response
- Governor Abbott Holds Call With State Legislature, Texas Congressional Delegation On COVID-19 Efforts
- Governor Abbott Announces Approval Of Emergency Designation For Small Business Disaster Loans From U.S. Small Business Administration
- Coronavirus brings temporary reprieve for second death row inmate in Texas
- Governor Abbott Waives Health Care Fees For Incarcerated Texans In TDCJ Facilities
- Texas Driver License (DL) Expiration Dates Extended, DL Offices Closed
- Texas Supreme Court: Emergency Order 1, Order 2, Order 3, Order 4
- Governor Abbott Issues Statement On Texas Supreme Court Temporary Suspension Of Residential Eviction Proceedings
- Texas regulator considers oil output cuts for first time in decades, more – as addressed yesterday on Pratt on Texas, this is a terrible idea.
- How are Texas lawmakers planning to spend billions to improve schools? Here’s the breakdown
- Commentary: We Are All Homeschoolers Now
- Texas’ Top County, Harris, to Stop Hiding Noncitizen Voter Data
- Texas appeals court lets controversial illegal voting conviction stand
- Mike Bloomberg still trying to help flip Texas House to Democrats
- Texas GOP and Texas Democrats spar over how to move forward with elections amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Texas Democrats sue to force May election to be carried out through mail-in ballots – why are they so in love with ballots by mail? Because it is the center of election fraud and this will make such even easier.
- Abbott order party primary runoffs postponed, moved to 14 July 2020
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- Coronavirus related
- See Abbot’s executive order here (pdf)
- Dr. John Hellerstedt Issues Public Health Disaster Declaration In Texas
- Texas Government Code, Sec. 418 – emergency management
- Texas Health & Safety Code, Chapter 81 – communicable diseases
- Governor Abbott Holds Call With State Legislature, Texas Congressional Delegation On COVID-19 Efforts
- Abbott Allows Event Permit Refunds For Businesses Affected By COVID-19 Cancellations
- Governor Abbott Waives Regulations To Support Pharmacy Operations, Allow Telephonic Consultations
- Gov. Abbott ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Virus Cases Possible, more
- Gov. Abbott says thousands will get COVID-19, discusses statewide concerns in town hall VIDEO
- Coronavirus updates in Texas: More than 5,000 tests given, 212 test positive
- Pence: Coronavirus About Three Times as Contagious as the Flu
- Dr. Marc Siegel tackles 3 big coronavirus myths VIDEO
- Dr. Manny Alvarez says he’s ‘bullish’ on anti-malaria drug to effectively treat coronavirus VIDEO
- Fauci: Don’t get your hopes up for hydroxychloroquine just yet
- China’s relationship with WHO chief in wake of coronavirus outbreak under the microscope – remember the political side of WHO is rather separate from the science side.
- California wakes up to strictest coronavirus measures in USA: Here are new rules
- California: where politicians consider criminals their base and ordinary citizens their enemy
- Andrew Cuomo places NY state ‘on pause’ tells non-essential workers to stay home
- Breaking: Cuomo reverses, imposes “pause” order to shelter in place
- MMH confirms Midland’s first coronavirus case
- Italian town’s experiment leads to no new coronavirus cases in almost a week
- Crane County confirms the first case of COVID-19 in the Permian Basin
- Police report shows compliance check for “coronavirus declarations” taken seriously in Lubbock
- 3 COVID-19 cases in Lubbock, 2 in Amarillo – maybe 4: Second Hockley County COVID-19 case confirmed
- No new coronavirus cases reported in San Antonio, Bexar so far Friday
- San Antonio brides, grooms say ‘I do’ to rescheduling weddings due to the COVID-19 virus
- She was released from a hospital in San Antonio with coronavirus still in her system. Weeks later, she doesn’t appear to have infected anyone.
- Doctors say Austin hospitals ill-prepared for COVID-19 patients – lib town, run by libs at almost every place so why?
- Coronavirus in Texas: Fund created to cover utility bills of Hays, Caldwell residents in need
- Is This The Dumbest Generation Yet?
- Severe Outcomes Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Brady PAC Endorses MJ Hegar in Senate Race
- Income tax filing deadline moved to July 15 from April 15
- U.S. Census count extended because of coronavirus
- McConnell Introduces Rescue Package With $2400 Checks for Families, $500 For Kids
- Will a $1 trillion bailout bring us closer to the end of Social Security?
- Coronavirus forces GOP in Texas and beyond to embrace bailouts, economic stimulus, rising deficits – some Republicans
- New Bill Mandates Companies Provide 12 Weeks of Emergency Leave – far worse for small business than the virus outbreak.
- FDA regulations did slow testing for coronavirus
- McCaul blasts China’s role in pandemic; Dems say GOP shifting focus away from Trump
- DOE trying to ease burden on oil producers
- Texas congressmen ask Interior to cut Gulf oil, gas royalties – problem is in handing out cash all around the gov’t needs those royalties.
- Sen. Cruz to HHS: ‘Time Is of the Essence’ to Ensure Hospitals, Health Care Facilities Have Ventilators Critical to Treating COVID-19
- Friendswood Girl Scouts give comfort and thanks to firefighters dealing with pandemic
- It Is The Chinese Coronavirus
- Tucker Carlson Takes CNN to the Shredder Over “Pure Bootlicking” of the Chinese Government VIDEO
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- Presidential race / national politics
- ‘Democrat dark money’ deployed against Trump
- Bernie Sanders bats away campaign questions: ‘I’m dealing with a ‘f—ing global crisis’ – he is personally dealing with almost nothing but his campaign!
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- Border / immigration
- Trump administration announces US, Mexico limiting non-essential travel across border amid coronavirus, more
- Clorox bottles filled with water seized at Texas border crossing
- ICE halts deportations, DOJ closes immigration courts due to COVID-19
- Judge rejects ACLU demand to release illegal immigrants amid coronavirus outbreak, Calls for Trump administration to release migrants from detention increase amid COVID-19 pandemic – typical.
- An American Attempts to Smuggle Over 100K into Juárez
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- Business
- Rig count plummets as oil price war rages on, Baker Hugher report
- With $39B in debt, can Occidental survive the crash?
- Oxy’s bonds plunge after Moody’s junk rating
- Tenaris lays off 900 as demand for pipeline projects crumbles
- Texas regulator considers oil output cuts for first time in decades, more – as addressed yesterday on Pratt on Texas, this is a terrible idea.
- Exxon, Guyana head toward uncertain future
- Southwest Airlines Cancels All Fights in and Out of Midway in Chicago
- Austin restaurants struggle to survive as options dwindle VIDEO
- H-E-B employees will receive extra pay during pandemic
- United Supermarkets adjusting hours amid pandemic
- ConocoPhillips cuts $2.2 billion in spending and stock buyback program
- Mortgage rates jump as lenders handle crush of applications
- Austin’s Sixth Street bars boarded up amid coronavirus closures
- Texas restaurants are asking for tax relief from the state. But officials say they need those revenues during the pandemic.
- Sales soar at local gun retailers
- How Cigar Shops Are Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Video shows EF-2 tornado impact Abilene prison units VIDEO
- Rural tornado recovery helped by friends and family VIDEO
- Taylor County twister tore through tractors, trucks, and ranches
- Odessan jailed, indicted was the wrong man, charges dismissed
- Big Spring police arrest suspect in murder of 64-year-old Odessa man
- Odessa PD investigating deadly crash involving 18-wheeler on I-20
- Man sentenced to decade in prison after nearly completing 10-year probation for robbing off-duty police officer at gunpoint
- Mother who blamed 1-year-old son for injuries to other son arrested after no show to pre-trial
- WFPD: Man with dozens of violent arrests charged again for abusing woman with mental disability
- Police: Man jailed after attempting to steal three wine bottles, coffee creamer – shocked it wasn’t toilet paper.
- Strip search find meth in woman’s underwear
- Two Brownwood teens arrested in vehicle burglaries investigation
- Former Abilene church worker gets 10 years probation for child sex crime
- Abilene mobile home fire results in total loss No injuries reported
- San Saba’s only fresh grocery store catches fire, no injuries reported
- Driver in 2018 East Lubbock crash placed on probation for 10 years
- Passenger steers SUV to safety after driver shot, killed in southwest Houston
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- Local government
- Texas’ Top County, Harris, to Stop Hiding Noncitizen Voter Data
- Taylor County courthouse to start screening visitors Monday
- Possible property tax relief proposed for San Antonio, Bexar County homeowners amid coronavirus outbreak – believe it when I see it.
- Texas’ county leaders haven’t stepped up strongly enough against coronavirus. That has to change – this is going on throughout the liberal press, pushing officials to act as tyrants.
- Here’s how Fort Worth saved $5 million on health care after years of rising costs
- ‘Dallas is marked by a very stark geography of inequity’ and other slaps in the face – how Leftists see everything, except once they are in full control then the poverty and failure is unseen.
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- Colleges & universities
- UTPB confirms case of COVID-19
- HSU cancels graduation; extends online learning
- Texas Tech University Cancels May 2020 Commencement Ceremonies
- Wayland will finish the semester online
- Baylor student, two faculty members test positive for COVID-19
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- Military
- New Air Force training routine: COVID-19 quarantine in San Antonio
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