- As Texas economy sputters, will rainy day fund rescue state government?
- Proposed Spending Cut: The Moving Image Industry Incentive Program
- AG Paxton Files Intervention to Prevent the Release of Over 4,000 Dangerous Individuals in Harris County – the Left’s using a crisis…
- Gov. Abbott Prohibits Release of “Violent Felons” and Issues New Quarantine Requirements for Travel
- Abbott, Paxton Move to Block Liberal Counties from Releasing Felons from Jails – note how the same people who call us crazy for expressing concern over our constitutional rights say the same thing but to advocate for releasing prisoners!
- Governor Abbott, Attorney General Paxton Seek to Intervene in Harris County Lawsuit on Broad-Scale Jail Release
- Older inmates sue Texas prison system over coronavirus policies and practices
- Governor Abbott Prohibits Release Of Individuals In Custody With History Of Offenses Involving Physical Violence
- AG Paxton Files Brief to Enforce Governor’s Executive Order Halting Unnecessary Medical Procedures, Including Abortions, See brief (pdf)
- Texas abortion ban is biggest-ever disruption for embattled women’s health providers – we’re supposed to feel sorrow for the baby murderers?!
- Judge Lee Yeakel blocks Texas from temporarily closing abortion clinics as part of the state’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. – no surprise from Yeakel.
- Federal judge blocks Texas from enforcing coronavirus-related abortion ban
- State lawyers urge judge to keep coronavirus-related abortion ban in place
- Letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Regarding “Price-Gouging”
- Higher ed board a resource for colleges, universities
- A Look at Student Loan Debt in Texas
- Analysis: A Texas governor caught betwixt and between Texas attitudes
- Most of the Counties with the Largest Population Gains Since 2010 are in Texas
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- Coronavirus related
- We will know this is real “war footing” emergency when…
- Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report, P&I mortality surveillance
- 2019-2020 Texas Influenza Surveillance Activity Report
- Flu deaths appear to be plummeting as COVID-19 arrives
- Texas Tightens Rules on Neighboring Louisiana Over Wuhan Virus
- Abbott adds road travelers from Louisiana to coronavirus quarantine
- Travel Form, Instructions Available Online for Travelers Coming to Texas from New York Tri-State Area, New Orleans to Comply with Governor’s Mandated 14-Day Self-Quarantine
- Abbott Issues Executive Order Mandating 14-Day Quarantine For Travelers Arriving From CA, LA, WA, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Miami
- DPS: No checkpoints at Louisiana border to screen road travel during coronavirus
- Abbott Waives Certain Licensing Regulations For Pharmacists, Technicians
- Abbott Removes Licensing Barriers For Advance Practice Registered Nurses
- Abbott Announces HHSC Request Of Section 1135 Waiver To Support Health Care Workforce In Medicaid Program
- Abbott Announces Expanded Health Care Capacities In Texas, Issues Executive Orders To Expand Quarantines And Protect Public Safety
- Texas National Guard to Help With State’s COVID-19 Response
- Trump extends coronavirus guidelines through April
- The many estimates of the COVID-19 case fatality rate
- Media Outlets Credulously Report Chinese Data on New Coronavirus Cases
- COVID-19: learning from experience
- Coronavirus Update: Testing Stalls as Cases Surpass 140,000
- As virus threatens, U.S. embraces big government, for now – not me
- Hospitals consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients – not letting a crisis go to waste!
- Lone Texas bishop shuns anti-Life health care rationing statement
- Fort Worth Reverand Beat Coronavirus After a Two-Week Battle
- Coronavirus Plasma Treatments Begin in Major Texas Hospital System
- City of Abilene announces ‘Limited’ Shelter in Place Order
- Abilene mayor issuing shelter in place after people show ‘complete lack of seriousness’ – our seriousness is not an issue
- Wichita County Judge Woody Gossom issues county wide shelter-in-place order
- WFPD writes two citations for shelter-in-place violations – perfect example of how police end up using these rules to accomplish things other than for what the rules were actually intended.
- Lake Pflugerville closed due to ‘overcrowding’
- Odessa Mayor David Turner issues limited shelter in place order
- Ector County Emergency Management Officials ‘Potentially Exposed’
- Griffith Details What’s New In Lubbock’s Stay-At-Home Order
- Lubbock PD Debunks Rumor Circulating About Latest Stay-at-Home Order, more
- San Antonio mayor threatens park closures as governor ups coronavirus restrictions on travelers
- Dallas County Judge Revises Order for Construction Industry
- Expert Discusses Effects Of COVID-19 Pandemic On Agriculture
- Guidance on COVID-19 and the Workplace
- How do you worship if you cannot gather with your congregation? Your responses
- Hospitals Say No Thanks, at Least for Now, to Homemade Mask Donations
- North Texas Resident Challenges City’s ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Order That Conflicts With County
- Dallas-area mayor says he will issue new shelter-in-place order if judge overturns it
- Hotze, pastors ask Texas Supreme Court to rule Harris County stay-at-home order unconstitutional
- Interview with Aldine ISD superintendent about education and the coronavirus outbreak VIDEO
- Coronavirus test results in Texas are taking up to 10 days
- Austin doctors asking for hospitals to be designated for coronavirus patients
- Austin to build isolation sites for nursing home patients with coronavirus
- Wichita County’s self-important county judge is making threats to shutdown grocery stores!
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Coronavirus Stimulus: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Rep. Chip Roy tells Trump to ‘back off’ before stimulus vote
- Free-marketeer: Better Than a Stimulus Plan
- John Cornyn Praises US COVID-19 Response, Remains Critical Of Chinese ‘Wet Markets’
- TTU’s Brashears Named Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety at USDA
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Sanders is still running, and he may not stop anytime soon
- Biden mounts behind-the-scenes mission to win over wary progressives
- Will Andrew Cuomo replace Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee?
- President Trump Wages War on Two Fronts
- CBS Airs Video From ER in Italian Hospital While Cuomo Makes Emotional Appeal for Ventilators in NYC
- CNN’s S.E. Cupp Wants You to Stop Criticizing ‘Journalists’
- NY Times Editorial Board Demands Abortion Be Made ‘More Available During Pandemic, Not Less’
- Rachel Maddow: Trump Claim He’d Have Hospital Ships Coming to Help NY and CA ‘Nonsense.’ Watch the Ships Arrive.
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- Border / immigration
- Deported Sex Offenders Arrested Crossing Texas, Arizona Borders
- Judge Mulls Request to Release Migrant Children Over Virus
- Migrant advocacy groups call on ICE to release detainees in South Texas to prevent COVID-19
- Illegal aliens working on pandemic’s front lines fear for health and home
- Owner of Zapata Ranch Refuses to Sign Right of Entry Request
- Mexico’s President Meets with El Chapo’s Mother VIDEO
- Gulf Cartel Surveillance Center Raided in Mexican Border City
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- Business
- Texas Manufacturing Activity Contracts Suddenly, Outlook Worsens
- Central Texas businesses struggle to survive amid social distancing
- Hustle, Hard Choices for Houston Restaurant Amid Pandemic
- Report: Midland posts largest rent decrease in nation
- Energy economist: Production cuts won’t work
- Timetable for Dallas-to-Houston Bullet Train Uncertain After Company Lays Off 28 Employees Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
- Whole Foods workers call for strike to demand coronavirus protections
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Hutchinson County Sheriff Kirk Coker killed in one-vehicle wreck Sunday night near Fritch
- Houston father threatens son with gun for taking too long in shower, police say
- Wichita Falls suspect charged with assault with vehicle, resisting arrest
- Hillsborough sheriff asks for leads in missing persons cold case from ‘Tiger King’
- Report: FBI lists stabbing at Midland Sam’s Club as hate crime – as opposed to what, love crimes?
- Abilene man arrested after police find him parked in alley with underage girl
- Shots fired in robbery attempt, Lubbock police report says
- Wolfforth man arrested on indecency charges
- Hockley County Sheriff’s Deputies arrest man in narcotics bust
- Levelland Fire Department fought Saturday grass fire
- Suspect runs across freeway, jumps off overpass after pursuit near downtown Houston
- Electra man faces three charges after threatening to shoot police
- WF man faces four charges after threatening several officers, headbutting one
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- Local government
- We will know this is real “war footing” emergency when…
- AG Paxton Files Intervention to Prevent the Release of Over 4,000 Dangerous Individuals in Harris County – the Left’s using a crisis…
- 3 tax entities seize medical supplies from closed Bowie hospital for delinquent taxes
- Big Spring closing parks, golf course
- Abilene City Council special meeting closed to public & press due to social distancing guidelines
- Group Behind Austin ISD’s Curriculum Pushes Pornography on Children
- Frisco City Council votes to postpone May 2 elections; Frisco ISD to vote Wednesday
- North Texas Resident Challenges City’s ‘Shelter-In-Place’ Order That Conflicts With County
- Dallas-area mayor says he will issue new shelter-in-place order if judge overturns it
- Hotze, pastors ask Texas Supreme Court to rule Harris County stay-at-home order unconstitutional
- Dallas County Judge Revises Order for Construction Industry
- Castleberry ISD Buys Internet Transmission Towers to Keep Students Connected
- Wichita County’s self-important county judge is making threats to shutdown grocery stores!
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tech professor ‘might reconsider’ being atheist if Trump ‘would die from’ coronavirus
- Texas Tech to issue prorated student housing refunds
- Texas Tech Banding Together To Help Health Care Workers Battling COVID-19
- TTU’s Brashears Named Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety at USDA
- After a 50-year career, TTU Horn Professor Bill Hase dead at 75.
- Higher ed board a resource for colleges, universities
- WBU’s Bennett, Culver repeat as All-Americans
- WBU Professor uses 3D makers lab to print PPE.
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- Military
- A Texan Submariner Loves His Job On The USS Texas
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