- AG Paxton Applauds Fifth Circuit Decision Temporarily Upholding Governor’s Order Halting Unnecessary Medical Procedures
- Texas prisoners suing for soap, hand sanitizer, more frequent cleaning and social distancing measures
- Texas teachers group calling on Gov. Abbott to close schools for remainder of school year – think they would if they, unlike most of us, were not getting paid for the time they are off?!
- At a grave moment in history, Gov. Abbott buried the lede – this is how the state’s media is mostly playing this. They groundlessly call all conservatives Nazi’s and dictators but when a “crisis” comes they beat the hell out of them for not acting as a totalitarian. Leftist philosophy is at root totalitarian and it shows in this.
- Gov. Abbott must clarify his coronavirus order to end confusion – only liberals in the press appear confused. It was very clear.
- Coalition of Texans provide recommendations for protecting the rights of parents and children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Insurance companies not paying telehealth claims for mental health care in Texas
- Governor Abbott Appoints Cassels As District Attorney Of 159th Judicial District
- Abbott Announces $14.1 Million In Grants To Texas Military Communities
- Abbott Names Odessa’s Debi Hays Chair Of Commission on State Emergency Communications
- As Jail Release Orders for “Non-Violent” Felon Suspects Loom, Federal Judge Defers to Harris County for Now
- Calls in Texas for help with unemployment benefits rose ‘to the millions’ as result of coronavirus
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- Coronavirus related
- For the purposes of Texas Executive Order GA-14 the following are considered “Essential Services”
- Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report, P&I mortality surveillance
- 2019-2020 Texas Influenza Surveillance Activity Report
- Texas COVID-19 2020 situation report 4/1/2020 (pdf)
- Abbott Issues Executive Order Implementing Essential Services And Activities Protocols
- Gov. Greg Abbott: Churches are ‘Essential’
- Abbott Overrules Austin on Home Construction Halt During Coronavirus Outbreak
- Abbott, TDHCA Take Initial Action To Secure Financial Housing Assistance
- Abbott Announces Federal Stimulus Package To Help Texans Affected By COVID-19
- Texas AFL-CIO: Abbott hasn’t classified grocery store workers as ‘essential employees’
- Total mortality is DOWN in Europe during Wuhan panic, more
- Horowitz: It’s time to make the state governments feel the pain and consequences of the disproportionate shutdown of America
- Gov. Abbott overrides San Antonio, Bexar County rules on religious gatherings amid coronavirus crisis
- Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton Provide Joint Guidance for Houses of Worship Operating as Essential Services
- Six residents at San Antonio nursing home and several nurse’s aides have COVID-19, facility reports (Updated headline: Coronavirus outbreak at San Antonio nursing home kills one, infects at least a dozen residents, staff) – same in Lubbock (40% of cases from nursing homes.) Given we had the Washington state example, local health officials should have been focusing early such places with strict rules and monitoring INSTEAD of worrying so much about the general population going shopping.
- Expert: Bexar County’s Hospitals Have ‘Plenty’ of Capacity for Virus Patients
- In San Antonio’s suburban counties, coronavirus fight is improvised and personal
- Midland hospital clarifies that 30 employees were exposed to coronavirus
- Totalitarians running City of Lubbock publish snitch line to inform on neighbors
- 28 Univ. of Texas Students Positive for Coronavirus After Spring Break Trip to Mexico, more
- Kids Under Threat: Virus Hitting Juvenile Detention Centers
- Dr. Deborah Birx: Incomplete Chinese Data Misled Experts on Seriousness of Coronavirus
- Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown: ‘Shutdown anywhere means shutdown everywhere’ – sure is nice to be insured by billions in assets!
- Midland moves to let stores only have 10% occupancy
- Laredo residents who enter a building that is not their home must cover their nose, mouth – the silliness continues.
- Nurse Claims She Was Fired From Grandbury Hospital for Wearing a Mask
- El Paso County judge opens up about apparent house gathering at his home, violating order
- San Angelo closes city parks, playgrounds due to coronavirus pandemic – more insanity by local tyrants. Coronavirus dies quickly in UV light.
- Coronavirus is Forcing Americans to Develop Work-From-Home Habits That Could Benefit Us For a Long Time
- Why this UT student and millions other adult-aged dependents won’t get coronavirus stimulus cash – boo hoo.
- Commentary: Texans Being Denied Their Right to Carry?
- Freedom could suffer from efforts to curb the contagion – could? It already is
- Not April Fools: Snitch lines & business threats: How long until violence breaks out?
- Coalition of Texans provide recommendations for protecting the rights of parents and children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Harris County Judge Hidalgo plans to release some jail inmates to slow coronavirus
- Lawyers set up free legal aid hotline in Texas for coronavirus-related issues
- HUD Secretary Carson: Quickly Evolving Coronavirus Treatments Could Change Landscape ‘In the Next Week or Two’
- Rent is due. But thousands of Texans have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Analysis: A digital divide with dire consequences for Texas – more stupid and pointless liberal handwringing. I guess if we all had to travel to get away from a wildfire those with slower cars would be unfairly affected!
- Austin EMS Battles Coronavirus on the Frontlines as the City Reels
- McKinney Shelter-In-Place Ordinance Stands Despite Conflicting with County Judge’s Order
- North Texas Cities Keep Public Transportation Open Despite Coronavirus Concerns, Shelter-In-Place Orders
- Small Business Aid May Come with a Lot of Headaches
- 87-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg has different rules than the rest of us, refuses to stop working out with her personal trainer
- 4,000 price-gouging complaints have been filed in Texas during COVID-19 emergency
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- TX13: Runoff candidate Dr. Ronny Jackson Discusses Coronavirus Pandemic
- TX19: Dem nominee says stimulus checks will be spent – boy that’s brilliant!
- Abbott Announces Federal Stimulus Package To Help Texans Affected By COVID-19
- Trump administration finalizes rollback of Obama fuel emissions standards
- A Better Solution to the Covid-19 Economic Crisis
- Circuit Court Blocks Trump-Administration Rule Removing Government Funding from Abortion Providers
- National emergency stockpile of protective medial gear nearly empty: report – “The stockpile was designed to respond to handful of cities. It was never built or designed to fight a 50-state pandemic.”
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden’s toughest choice of all is picking a running mate
- Joe Biden Makes a Pathetic Attempt to Achieve Relevance and Claim Credit for the Wuhan Virus Response
- VP Pence: I don’t believe Trump ‘has ever belittled the threat of the coronavirus’
- Impeachment Manager Adam Schiff Wants ‘9/11 Commission’ on Coronavirus: ‘What Went Wrong’? – how’s he going to have standing in China? Fellow commie?!
- McConnell: Impeachment ‘diverted attention’ from coronavirus
- CNN and NBC Personalities, Hillary Clinton End Up In Chinese Propaganda Video
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- Border / immigration
- 40 Illegal Aliens Found Locked in Trailer at I-35 Checkpoint
- U.S. is expelling border-crossers to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes during pandemic
- Nearly All New Illegal Border Crossers Are Getting Sent Back, Say Feds
- Coronavirus Cases in Mexico Reach 1215 with 29 Fatalities – reported. There will be big underreporting, it is not a first-world country
- Amid pandemic Democrats demand racial data in virus testing – thought we were to be a racial-blind society? Not the Dems.
- Small Business Aid May Come with a Lot of Headaches
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- Business
- ‘We are the verge of a massive collapse’: Ex-Energy Secretary Perry says COVID-19 will ravage oil industry
- These are the only long-haul routes American, Delta, Hawaiian and United plan to fly in April
- American Airlines giving leave to nearly 1,500 pilots in April as it tries to trim workforce
- Flight deals available across the country from $35 for the second half of 2020
- SpaceX prepares next Starship prototype; releases Starship user manual
- Closed Bowie hospital goes up on foreclosure sale
- Pinkerton’s Distillery stops liquor production to make free hand sanitizer
- Firm Indebted to Wilks Brothers, Big Donors in Texas Politics, Declares Bankruptcy – not sure what one has to do with other, it is CARBO
- Fed Circuit Gives Schlumberger, Latham Huge Win in Patent Dispute
- Schlumberger layoffs, furloughs, exec pay cuts incoming
- Trinity Industries relocating corporate headquarters to North Dallas
- AT&T slapped with downgrade amid its ‘exposure to the media industry,’ economy
- AT&T names Hulu co-founder Jason Kilar CEO of WarnerMedia, replacing John Stankey
- Amazon’s hiring spree packs new workers into orientations in Dallas and other cities
- Staff cuts reach into the thousands at Dallas-Fort Worth hotels and even brand new ones aren’t immune
- Missouri developer plans to build a big warehouse near Alliance
- D-FW apartment industry braces for the shakeout
- Hard Rock Cafe to close downtown Houston location after 20 years
- Houston could lose a quarter of its restaurants, consultant says
- Houston energy services co. names permanent CEO, president
- Vacations To Go lays off more workers
- Hundreds more SA hotel jobs eliminated by coronavirus
- Abraxas Petroleum cuts board in half to weather oil market collapse
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Former Madison County deputy arrested in 2000 sexual assault case
- Truck hauling toilet paper catches fire on Texas interstate, more VIDEO
- Autopsy rules death as homicide for man found near Odessa gas station alley
- Ector Co. SO arrests two in armed robbery case
- WF man arrested for breaking into apartment, threatening woman with knife
- Abilene police looking for man connected to ‘endangered runaway’ case
- ‘Voyeur’ arrested after looking into bathroom window in Clyde
- Ex-Abilene church worker begins 180-day sentence for child sex crime
- Convenience store clerk reports being punched
- Lubbock Woman Arrested For Threatening and Spitting on Police Officer
- 5-year-old shot while making home videos with family in west Houston
- Temple man charged with sexual assault of teen
- Nederland police search for guitar thief
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- Local government
- Lubbock ISD Approves Temporary Childcare for Covenant & UMC
- Totalitarians running City of Lubbock publish snitch line to inform on neighbors
- Petition calls for more transparency in Ector Co. on Wuhan virus
- Criner sworn in as sheriff in Midland Co. VIDEO
- Abilene Civic Plaza Hotel demolished, plans still in progress amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Taylor Co. Commissioners extend disaster declaration due to COVID-19, outline pay, benefits & leave for employees
- Lubbock Sheriff’s Office non-emergency phone lines will be down April 2, for 1 hour
- Judge Upholds McKinney’s ‘Shelter-in-Place’ Ordinance – told you.
- McKinney Shelter-In-Place Ordinance Stands Despite Conflicting with County Judge’s Order
- Amarillo City Council Postpones May Bond Election
- Some local elections in Texas moving ahead despite coronavirus spread
- Abbott Overrules Austin on Home Construction Halt During Coronavirus Outbreak
- Harris County Judge Hidalgo plans to release some jail inmates to slow coronavirus
- As Jail Release Orders for “Non-Violent” Felon Suspects Loom, Federal Judge Defers to Harris County for Now
- CPS Energy: The New Deal Has Been a Good Deal for San Antonio
- Dallas Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Prohibited by Federal Court
- North Texas Cities Keep Public Transportation Open Despite Coronavirus Concerns, Shelter-In-Place Orders
- Bryan City Council approves grant to boost Relief Fund
- Belton ISD wifi hotspots on 5 campuses
- Lufkin ISD sweetens pay plan for some essential employees
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- Colleges & universities
- CARES Act provides economic relief amidst COVID-19 pandemic
- MSU assistant professor of Kinesiology honored
- Fritter the K9 earns smiles, spreads good will for ACUPD
- Large-animal veterinary surgeon brought on to Tech School of Veterinary Medicine
- Texas Tech University’s Graduate Programs Recognized Among Best In Nation
- NCAA grants spring sport athletes extra year of eligibility
- TAMU-CC postpones spring graduation
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- Military
- Pentagon blackout leaves San Antonio in the dark on JBSA’s coronavirus cases
- Military Stops Releasing Detailed Data on Coronavirus Cases
- Second COVID-19 case confirmed at Sheppard AFB – I guess the blackout isn’t at Sheppard!
- State of Texas, DCOA grant $1.2 million to Dyess Air Force Base
- Gov. Abbott announces new grants: $5 mil. benefiting Goodfellow AFB, $616,000 to Dyess AFB
- Abbott Announces $14.1 Million In Grants To Texas Military Communities
Pratt’s post for 4/1/2020
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