- Bonnen Places Democrat LGBTQ Caucus Chair on Budget-Writing Board – proving he was always quite unreliable even for the mainstream GOP. Darby is awful and should have been removed but not with a far-Leftist!
- Dan Patrick says ‘there are more important things than living’ in defense of coronavirus comments – running right into the nihilist Left which fundamentally rejects anything being more important than the self and even that is questionable.
- Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick praises economic restart, says ‘there are more important things than living’
- AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Once Again Upholds Governor’s Order Halting Unnecessary Medical Procedures, Including Abortion
- As Abbott looks to reopen Texas, coronavirus testing lags most other states – so what!? Mass testing is great for statistics but it does not affect the severity of the disease.
- Gov. Abbott again vows to reopen the Texas economy
- While Oil Plunges and Unemployment Soars, Abbott Waits on Task Force
- Governor Abbott, Texas National Guard Announce COVID-19 Mobile Testing Sites
- As Texans struggle financially, Gov. Greg Abbott pitches 500,000 open jobs in the state
- Dawn Breaking in Texas Shutdown, Keep Fighting
- Rep.Biedermann to Abbott: “Allow Small Businesses to Open Their Doors”
- Burrows on Chinese Coronavirus: ‘We Need to Move Forward’
- More Thoughts on Homeschooling and Harvard Magazine – “In short, Bartholet’s view is that elite educators necessarily know better than parents… Ultimately, Bartholet’s argument is thinly veiled anti-religious bigotry coupled with a healthy dose of privileged elitism.”
- State agency’s plan to exhume and temporarily store human remains found at Alamo reignites controversy
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Issues Statement on Historic Drop in Oil Prices
- Texas Railroad Commission appears in favor of proration, pushes vote down the road – wrong move, the market works. Texas energy regulators decide not to act Tuesday to limit oil production amid market turbulence
- Railroad Commissioners discuss prorationing, delay vote, more – Dems really want this to move forward with the useful idiot help of industry people because getting back into controlling production gives them massive power over the oil industry just by winning 2 seats on the Texas RRC.
- Motion for Production Cut Fails at Divided Texas Oil Commission
- Marathon Oil CEO: Regulators should stand down and let free markets handle the oil price crash
- San Marcos may be 1st Texas city to pass cite-and-release law – Leftism on the march in Texas! A crime is hardly low-level to the victim. Legislators need to remove this flexibility from “local control” ASAP.
- Fiscal Notes: Helping Foster Youths in Higher Education
- Texas Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Landmark Parental Rights Case
- Old Left vs. New Left: In US Senate race, Texas AFT endorses Sen. West over MJ Hegar
- TX11: Democrat candidate using COVID-19 to claim rural hospitals needed to handle overflow from urban areas – but there is no overflow
- TX11: Democrat Jon Mark Hogg seeks end to gridlock – yes, by simply passing everything the Left wants.
- In-person Voting is Safe
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- Coronavirus related
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Wuhan virus experience undermines justification of government actions
- COVID-19 mitigation is a weighing of harms
- 2019-2020 Texas Influenza Surveillance Activity Report
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 4/20/2020 (pdf) – 495 deaths in Q1 plus half of April. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,000 for the year.
- Texas COVID-19 deaths now 428, only 1,522 in hospital (that was Friday)
- Coronavirus death toll in Texas reaches 495, 1,411 in hospital (down more than 100)– There are over 54,000 staffed hospital beds in Texas. That’s less than 3% of Texas staffed beds. Flu seasons often see higher numbers than this. “Data shared by Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson showed of the 1,150 confirmed coronavirus cases in Dallas County, 500 were hospitalized. More than 2,100 patients with the flu have been hospitalized over the same four-week period.”
- 963 new coronavirus cases reported in Texas, 16,455 total.– not much compared to 29,000,000 people. “The number of COVID-19 patients being treated in Texas hospitals dropped by 79 to 1,459, according to the figures reported at midday Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services.”
- Overall U.S. death rate is at a multi-year LOW
- Timeline: Tracking the spread of COVID-19 in Texas
- Chinese study: Some strains of the virus may be much more dangerous than others
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Funerals look much different during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Cancer and heart patients dying because of government-imposed shut downs
- Doctors: Execution Drugs Could Help COVID-19 Patients – another unique Leftist move to stop death penalty as there is no evidence cited that the drugs are in short supply, just a quote saying some of, in the past, warned there “could” be shortages.
- Corpus Christi ER Doctor Self-Isolates in His Kids’ Treehouse
- Wearing Masks, Hikers Hit Trails as Texas Starts Reopening
- Laredo pair allegedly violated coronavirus stay-at-home order with beauty businesses – disgusting use of police resources! Shameful.
- Study finds COVID-19 infecting homeless in large numbers, with few ill effects – sort of blows-up the Leftist rant about societies most vulnerable being hardest hit.
- Massachusetts study finds 1/3 of participants had already been infected with COVID-19, without symptoms – what I predicted as most likely in mid-March.
- Study suggests COVID-19 death rate is far less than presently reported, comparable to flu – the numbers by mid-March were suggesting this and I covered such to much criticism from those who wallow in their fear.
- W.H.O. says coronavirus came from an animal and was not made in a lab
- Doctors discover symptom of coronavirus mostly seen in kids
- Bexar County Posts Smallest Increase in Coronavirus Cases Since Late March
- Lubbock man accused of murdering infant requests to be released due to coronavirus
- No new positive COVID-19 cases in Taylor County, 47 from AbiMar Foods, 2 inmates from Robertson Unit
- 4 new COVID-19 cases at Robertson, Middleton units in Abilene
- Five days with no positive COVID-19 cases in Tom Green County
- Colleyville Loosens Restrictions on Churches, Salons, Retail Stores
- Dallas council member Blewett: It’s time to start reopening our economy in stages – yes but no stages, just re-open.
- Dallas County commissioners vote to extend safer-at-home order through May 15
- Gov. Greg Abbott tells Prestonwood Baptist Church members in Plano to draw on their faith during coronavirus outbreak
- Leading a lockdown protest leads to custody challenge for Alex Jones
- COVID-19 protest leader charged with violating NJ Gov. Murphy’s social distancing law – the 2nd Amendment exists for a reason.
- In Less Than A Month, A Shuttered Hospital Has Been Rebuilt To Treat COVID-19 Veterans
- Do face masks work? Coronavirus is not a reason for us to accept arbitrary impositions or abandon our traditions of rational discourse
- The real devastation from COVID-19: A destroyed economy imposed by government panic
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump pledges funds for oil industry to avert job losses
- At least a quarter of Texans in Congress back remote voting as coronavirus tests legislative process – ridiculous to the extreme.
- Politico: House GOP to “declare war on recess,” demand Pelosi recall Congress
- White House, Congress reach deal to replenish small business loan program
- Trump has wide power to overrule governors during coronavirus emergency, legal experts say
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump Campaign Ad: Let them eat ice cream VIDEO
- Biden faces backlash over anti-Trump ad… from the left
- Michael Bloomberg’s $1.2 Billion
- ‘A lot of people in the media hate Trump’: Brit Hume’s interview with COVID lockdown skeptic Alex Berenson a must-read
- Thanks to COVID-19, Americans’ dim view of China grows even dimmer
- Hawaii gov to cut teacher pay by 20% as tourism economy collapses
- Bill Peacock: Liberty Leads to Health and Prosperity
- Ocasio-Cortez Deletes Praise of Oil Price Crash: ‘You Absolutely Love to See It’
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- Border / immigration
- Human Smugglers Arrested Following Vehicle Pursuit, Crash
- 16 Migrants Test Positive for Coronavirus on Mexican Border
- Mexican Border State Asks Supreme Court to Force AMLO to Protect Migrants from Coronavirus
- Mexican President Asks Cartels to ‘Slow Violence’ amid Coronavirus – but it’s OK the rest of the time? Absurd Leftist moron.
- Mexican president getting cozy with mother of ‘El Chapo’ a ‘slap in the face’ to crime fighters
- Migrants traveling to U.S., stranded in the Panamanian jungle, now face Wuhan virus – note how normally they get free passage on to the USA.
- Trump denounced as ‘xenophobe in chief’ after vowing to freeze immigration in response to COVID-19 pandemic
- Coronavirus isn’t slowing building border wall VIDEO
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- Business
- Local oil producers dealing with historically low oil prices
- OPEC ministers rush to hold conference call amid price slump
- Oil crash spreads beyond expiring contract with WTI slumping 42%
- Trump pledges funds for oil industry to avert job losses
- Marathon Oil CEO: Regulators should stand down and let free markets handle the oil price crash
- City: Southwest to remove Midland-to-Vegas flight in May
- Virus Delays Launch of Chip and Joanna Gaines’ New Network
- Alaska Native Group Sues Neiman Marcus Over Coat’s Design
- Bankruptcy for Neiman Marcus because of government-imposed shutdown
- 100,000 airline jobs facing elimination due to Wuhan panic shut downs
- Social distancing and lockdowns killing craft beer industry
- 8 million restaurant workers unemployed due to government-imposed shutdowns
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce launches small business relief grant
- Two San Angelo hospitals merging
- Aldine ISD alumna’s painting business takes off after Bad Bunny offers $5K for his portrait
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 3.1 Magnitude Earthquake strikes Odessa, more
- Search ends in Baytown bayou after no sign of anyone missing
- Man from El Salvador indicted on sexual assault of a child
- Lubbock man accused of murdering infant requests to be released due to coronavirus
- Shots fired call leads Wichita Falls police to a theft of a firearm arrest
- Crosby County Teenager Killed in Car Accident With Greyhound Bus
- Austin Police Want Manslaughter Charge After Man Dies on E. 7th Street
- Big rigs block traffic on Houston’s East Loop in apparent protest, Houston police investigating protesting truckers’ wage theft claims
- Driver remains in hospital after Houston police chase ends in crash
- Killeen: Five-year-old boy dead after gunshot wound to head
- 2 hit, killed by speeding driver in southeast Houston, police say
- Man, 50, found in Waco neighborhood with multiple gunshot wounds
- Dirt bike rider injured while jumping ditch culverts dies at local hospital
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- Local government
- San Marcos may be 1st Texas city to pass cite-and-release law – Leftism on the march in Texas! A crime is hardly low-level to the victim.
- Wichita County Commissioners discuss fireworks and the future
- Merkel ISD board begins superintendent search
- Lubbock Power & Light votes to lower rates for summer months – it’s not a favor folks, they are already overcharging you.
- San Antonio continues to fret over why some don’t buy Internet access
- Economic hit to Texas by the coronavirus has San Antonio area school districts bracing for budget cuts
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU student named Collegian of the Year by Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business Fraternity
- Hardin-Simmons Continues to Achieve Excellence
- Second Tech Truman Scholar recalls selection process, college career
- TTU Alumnus Selected As Fulbright Finalist
- TTU Researcher Receives USDA Grant To Study Global Farm And Trade Policy Effects On Agriculture
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- Military
- Fort Hood soldiers certified as COVID-19 response teams
Pratt’s post for 4/21/2020
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