- Amid coronavirus, Texas Senate Democratic Caucus asks Gov. Abbott to expand Medicaid – use every “crisis!”
- Abbott Appointment of Taxpayer-Funded Lobbyist to Strike Force Raises Ethics Questions
- Elective surgeries resume as Abbott aims to reopen Texas
- Crippled by Coronavirus Shutdowns, Texas Small Businesses Make Plans to Reopen
- Abbott Emphasizes Safety In Urgent Need To Reopen Texas Business AUDIO
- Abbott: Texas plans broad reopening during the first week of May
- Texas Governor Defends Testing Levels as Texas Begins Reopening
- ‘What science?’ Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says nation never should have been locked down – he is correct. Hyper-local was the only response needed.
- Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton Provide Updated Joint Guidance to Houses of Worship – worship as your conscience dictates
- Abbott Prepares State Resources As Severe Weather Threatens Parts Of Texas
- As Texas transportation funding takes a hit, we must change our focus – seems a focus on the things liberals want.
- Need a job? Texas launches website to connect people with work.
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- Coronavirus related
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- COVID-19 mitigation is a weighing of harms
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 4/22/2020 (pdf) – 517 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.
- Coronavirus death toll in Texas rises to 543 – no longer seem to be reporting the very small number of those hospitalized due to the Wuhan virus.
- Coronavirus Positive Test Rate at Five Percent, Abbott Says in State Update
- Overall U.S. death rate is at a multi-year LOW
- Timeline: Tracking the spread of COVID-19 in Texas
- 4 times more in hospital with flu in Dallas than COVID-19
- Chinese study: Some strains of the virus may be much more dangerous than others
- The model showed 6,000 would die in Texas. Now it’s 1K. What’s changed? – 6000 is 40% below our normal losses from influenza. What a pack of lies about social distancing and restrictions lowering the infection rate. The R# does not change for the virus itself.
- Latest UT model projects 64% probability that COVID-19 deaths have peaked in Texas
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Austin health care worker dies of coronavirus after career at nursing home
- Two dead after COVID-19 strikes state veterans home in Floresville
- Midland reports new coronavirus at Midland Medical Lodge
- Midland Medical Lodge ‘hot spot’ for virus, MMH CEO says
- Two employees, one resident at Carillon test positive for COVID-19, city says
- Austin Orders Nursing Homes to Notify Next of Kin of Any COVID-19 Case
- Do face masks work?
- Wuhan virus experience undermines justification of government actions
- The real devastation from COVID-19: A destroyed economy imposed by government panic
- Do hospitals get paid more to list patients as having coronavirus?
- W.H.O. Chief Tedros Confuses with Cryptic, Terse Messages: ‘Honesty.’ ‘Compassion.’ ‘Forgive.’
- ‘Disease triangle’ indicates COVID-19 peak isn’t the end
- CDC director: Next winter’s COVID-19 season could be even worse – they just cannot back off the scare tactics!
- People in Tokyo defy requests to stay home during coronavirus outbreak – A phrase I never would have thought to have seen as an American: “[Japan’s] Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has repeatedly asserted that a lockdown like the ones seen in London and New York is not possible here, due to civil liberties protected by the Constitution,…” What have we become when Japan more recognizes liberty than even the Texas governor!?
- Beaumont mayor defends nail salon visit after stay-at-home order
- Former H-E-B employee charged after claiming positive COVID-19 result
- WFPD make first shelter-in-place related arrest – this arrest and most of the citations are an abuse of the orders, these are being used as pile-on charges when other charges are appropriate.
- Some inmates with COVID-19 moved from Beto Unit, but risk remains for Anderson County
- New confirmed case of COVID-19 at Jones Co. ICE facility
- No new COVID-19 cases in Tom Green Co. for six consecutive days
- Lubbock homeless community reports zero coronavirus cases VIDEO
- Texas Investigating Meat Processing Plants over Coronavirus Outbreaks
- Chambers County lifts curfew – should have never had a curfew
- Montgomery County Rescinds Stay-at-Home Order, Lifts Curfew
- Houston hospitals to start phasing back more non-COVID care Wednesday
- ‘I just can’t do this.’ Harried parents give up on home school – odd folk
- Colleyville Mayor Richard Newton shows how Texas can start returning to normalcy
- As Iconic Businesses Close Permanently, Call for Action Grows
- Dallas Commissioners Defy Abbott and Grassroots, Extend Shelter in Place
- Coronavirus put her out of work, then debt collectors froze her savings account – notice how the press says the virus “put her out of work” when that is not true. Government officials put her out of work.
- You might be protected from eviction until Aug. 23. Here’s how to find out.
- Coronavirus in Texas: County jail population shrunk by more than 10,000
- Timeline: The Battle to Release Harris County Inmates During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Coronavirus in Austin: Sporting events, festivals could remain a year away, health authority says – utter insanity
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- AG Barr Says Legal Action Over Lockdowns Possible
- Policymakers Must Resist State and Local Bailouts
- Sen. Cruz Comments on Passage of Legislation to Provide Additional COVID-19 Relief
- Cruz: Right Now We Need to Keep Americans Safe & Help Them Get Their Jobs Back VIDEO
- Trump’s COVID-19 testing czar spent decades in Texas preparing for a pandemic
- Pompeo continues to blast China for misreporting coronavirus information VIDEO
- Former top CIA spy blasts old boss John Brennan’s ‘unpatriotic’ conduct as ‘dereliction of duty’
- Cost of Social Security will exceed program’s income in 2021, says board of trustees
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden ‘Excited’: Coronavirus an Opportunity for ‘Institutional Changes’ – the basic desire of all on the Left, fundamental revolutionary change
- Hillary Clinton Missing from Joe Biden’s ‘Democrats Unite’ Declaration
- Biden Wants Michelle Obama As His VP, ‘No chance’ says Valerie Jarrett
- Obama Warns Climate Change Will Be ‘Far Harsher’ than Coronavirus – utterly stupid.
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- Border / immigration
- March Border Statistics Show Steady Decline in Apprehensions
- New confirmed case of COVID-19 at Jones Co. ICE facility
- Mexican Border State Asks Supreme Court to Force AMLO to Protect Migrants from Coronavirus
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- Business
- Q&A: Oil Prices Hit New Lows as Economic Pain Deepens
- Why oil at negative $100 isn’t a crazy bet anymore
- Energy isn’t the whole Texas economy, but it’s a critical piece
- Threadgill’s on North Lamar to close permanently – another casualty of gov’t orders
- As Iconic Businesses Close Permanently, Call for Action Grows
- Crippled by Coronavirus Shutdowns, Texas Small Businesses Make Plans to Reopen
- Virus dings AT&T results, telecom withdraws year guidance
- American Airlines raises bag fees for transatlantic Basic Economy passengers
- Small businesses, landlords grapple with bills and an uncertain future
- Austin Couch Potatoes now selling the masks it’s making for healthcare workers
- First National Bank of Wichita Falls completes acquisition of First State Bank of Chico
- AbiMar Foods resumes operations 1 week after closing, testing all employees for COVID-19
- Will America Go Back to the Movies?
- Listener: Chambers of Commerce “bedded down with tyrannical” officials
- Need a job? Texas launches website to connect people with work.
- As Prices Fall, Texas Dairies Have To Keep Milking
- Texas Investigating Meat Processing Plants over Coronavirus Outbreaks
- Destroying the Health Care System to Save it
- SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Updates on the Holcombe Road Fire in southern Crockett County
- DPS investigating after man sitting in westbound lane of 42nd St. was struck, killed in Ector Co.
- WFPD arrests one for theft, recovers stolen Jeep
- Teen’s joyride damages Bowie ISD stadium turf, track, fence, ATV
- Firefighters battle large flames at house fire in south Abilene
- Clovis man arrested for calling bomb threat to Plainview’s Covenant Hospital Saturday
- Shots Fired Call Leads to Four Arrests in Lubbock
- Lubbock mother accepts seven year sentence in child injury case
- Dr. Dixon surrenders after arrest warrant issued
- Plain-clothes deputy shoots, kills man in Missouri City neighborhood
- Pedestrian killed by driver in east Harris County, deputies say
- Suspect dead after officer-involved shooting in NE Houston
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- Local government
- Wuhan windfall to local gov’t?
- Dallas Co. Extends Shelter Order, Delays Vote on Contracts with Potential Conflicts of Interest
- Dallas Commissioners Defy Abbott and Grassroots, Extend Shelter in Place
- Williamson deputies’ return to ‘Live PD’ show sparks criticism
- Abilene City Council to consider suspending street maintenance fee temporarily
- Lubbock City Council approves financial assistance plan for small businesses
- Sole finalist named for Slaton ISD superintendent spot
- Houston Mayor: Coronavirus-battered 2021 city budget will be worst in history, require worker furloughs
- Timeline: The Battle to Release Harris County Inmates During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Bexar County Preps Mail-In Ballots for July Election, Braces for Different Scenarios
- Colleyville Leads the Way to Reopen Texas
- Chambers County lifts curfew – should have never had a curfew
- Montgomery County Rescinds Stay-at-Home Order, Lifts Curfew
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- Colleges & universities
- How Technology Can Untangle and Transform Campus Traffic
- MSU Texas assistant professor to lead Council for Exception Children
- MSU Texas to continue remote learning through Summer II term
- TTU Student Health Services continues operations despite campus closure – and yet they locked others out of their offices!
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to receive $829 thousand to Improve Telehealth
Pratt’s post for 4/22/2020
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