- House Speaker Dennis Bonnen floats 5% budget cuts for all state agencies – and such should be happening at the local level
- As Texas Economy Suffers, Budget Cuts Floated for State Agencies
- While Abbott Lags, Other Governors Lead
- Abbott promises far-reaching announcement on reopening Texas businesses, including restaurants, hair salons
- Abbott to reopen Texas businesses county by county – too slow, too late, too timid
- Rep. Landgraf Amplifies West Texans’ Voices with Governor
- Toth to Abbott: ‘Will You Allow Healthy People to Go Back to Work Immediately?’
- Rep. Mike Lang: “All Businesses Are Essential”
- AG Paxton Applauds Fifth Circuit for Prioritizing the Health and Safety of Medical Professionals Combating COVID- 19 Crisis Over the Demands of Prisoners
- Texas Supreme Court sides with Abbott after judge halted his order restricting jail release
- Prisons will increase testing for inmates and staff
- Abortions resume as Abbott lifts elective surgery ban
- Abbott Waives Certain Restrictions On Financial Assistance From Texas College Work-Study Program
- Abbott Temporarily Waives Certain Testing Requirements For Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
- Governor Abbott Statement On Major Tornado Damage In Polk County
- Abbott, HHSC Announce $54 Million To Support Older Texans During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Governor Abbott, Chancellor Sharp, Chief Kidd Announce COVID-19 Federal Assistance Training For Local Leaders
- Father Fights for Parental Rights in Custody Battle with Non-Relative at Texas Supreme Court
- Texas: More Money Spent On Lobbying Than All Donations Combined – “And most Texans can’t name a single lobbyist.”
- Why do successful Leftists think such unattainable for others?
- Texas Democrats launch ‘RegisterTexas.com,’ an online tool to help register voters
- TX11: August Pfluger poised for Congress
- TX24: Democrat Kim Olson’s departure from the Air Force hasn’t been a political liability. Will that change in 2020?
- Rick Perry takes Ted Cruz up on challenge, donates beef to Fayette County EMS
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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 4/23/2020 (pdf) – 543 deaths in Q1 plus more than 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 561 – out of 29,000,000. That is only 0.0193 per 1000 people. Again, no longer a mention of the # hospitalized likely because it is a very small number around 1400 or so.
- Overall U.S. death rate is at a multi-year LOW
- 4 times more in hospital with flu in Dallas than COVID-19
- 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
- Seven employees at Bonham VA Medical Center test positive for COVID-19 VIDEO
- Many nursing home patients recovering
- Nursing Home Staff Shortage Hampers Coronavirus Response
- Midland reports 3rd death of Midland Medical Lodge resident with COVID-19
- 8 Residents of Dallas-Area Care Facility Die of COVID-19
- 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
- Trump Jr. Blasts Media for ‘Acting like We Can’t Open Up Until COVID Is Eliminated’
- Twitter Bans Coronavirus Claims That Cause ‘Harmful Activity’ – Big Brother
- Flashback: Why Birx’ warning to media on COVID-19 mortality rate matters more today
- Lubbock: Mayor Pope’s Politburo: Is this America?
- City of Lufkin, Angelina County rescind emergency orders, turn to governor for final word – why is that so hard for others?
- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo orders masks or face coverings in Harris County
- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo sued over face mask requirement
- ‘Liberty and freedom’ | Other counties say they will not require masks like Harris County, Houston
- Presidio citizens could now be fined up to $1,000 for not wearing a mask in public
- Galveston makes plans to reopen beaches but challenges await
- South Padre Island extends state of disaster declaration, creates task force – more committee foot dragging.
- Travis County: New coronavirus death brings total to 28; cases up to 1,263 – Travis Co. population is 1,273,954. So even the cases number is insignificant. 1% of the population is 12,740. 1,263 is not even 1/10th of a percent of the population. Fatalities are only 0.022 per 1000 people.
- Tarrant County Commissioners Communicate Coronavirus Confusion
- Galveston bio lab explains connections to Wuhan
- The Paradox of Public Transit in a Pandemic
- New confirmed case of COVID-19 reported for Tom Green Co. is a resident who is out of the state
- Freestanding emergency departments to provide expanded services
- Texas Tech Laboratory Was State’s First To Offer Coronavirus Testing
- We should not permit our shared civil liberties to be the ultimate victim of COVID-19.
- AMA study suggests hypertension, obesity, diabetes common underlying issues in coronavirus patients
- California to reexamine deaths back to late 2019 to determine when coronavirus hit state
- Dr. Birx Exposes ABC Reporter Jonathan Karl as Having No Idea What He’s Talking About
- French Doctor Didier Raoult Cites ‘Scientific Misconduct’ in Recent VA Study on Hydroxychloroquine; Two Major Flaws
- Costa Rica using hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 treatment
- Dr. Scott Atlas: The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation
- UTMB scientist acknowledges safety risks at Chinese lab doing coronavirus research
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Pelosi: Next Stimulus Will ‘Enable the American People to Vote by Mail’ – better not and it’s not a federal issue.
- GOP to Pelosi: Forget remote voting — get back to work
- House poised to pass $484 billion package to help small businesses, bolster hospitals and coronavirus testing
- Congress Passes $483 Billion Spending for Additional Coronavirus Relief
- Sens. Cruz, Cramer, Colleagues Urge the Trump Administration & Federal Reserve to Make Credit Facilities Accessible to Domestic Energy Producers
- AG Barr on Coronavirus Restrictions, China, Durham Investigation, and More
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Abrams: Trump Afraid of Vote by Mail Because He ‘Is Illegitimate and Should Not Hold Office’ – if she has a light it’s hidden beneath a bushel basket.
- CHP bans protests at California capitol after freedom rally – the shredding of our most basic rights demand response
- Party Like It’s 1799: Cops Bust Up an Amish Barn Bash for Violating Ohio’s Stay-at-Home Order
- Jussie Smollett’s lawsuit has been dumped
- CNN’s Found the Silver Lining in the Pandemic, It’s ‘Bought Us Time’ Against Global Warming
- Media Push Fake News About FDA Official Supposedly Fired Over Opposing Hydroxychloroquine, Then the Real Story Comes Out
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- Border / immigration
- Guns, Ammo, Cash Seized by CBP Officers at Texas Border Crossing
- US Adds Cameras at Mexico Border Despite Drop in Crossings
- Trump signs order pausing immigration for 60 days, with exceptions
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- Business
- Coronavirus Shutdowns Leave 1.4 Million Texans Jobless
- More than 280,000 Texans filed unemployment claims this past week
- Credit card issuers cutting limits for people facing tough times
- AT&T rolls out 5G in Beaumont area
- Houston Galleria among malls opening for ‘retail to go’ starting Friday
- Oil extends recovery from selloff but concern over glut lingers
- Music Venues Try to Hang On, Look Ahead During COVID-19 Closures
- High Plains wheat farmers increasingly consider wheat for forage
- Are We in a Recession or a Depression?
- AG Paxton Files Lawsuit to Halt Price Gouging by Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.
- Three Weeks After Whopping Judgment, Diamondback Industries Files for Bankruptcy
- First Financial reports roughly $1 million dip in first quarter earnings
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Storms cause power outages across Texoma
- Newton County assessing damage after tornado
- Tornado that killed 3 in Polk County was an EF-2, weather service says
- Governor Abbott, Judge Sydney Murphy Provide Update On Polk County Recovery Efforts
- At Least 7 Dead as Storms Hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana
- Sabine River at mild flood stage, Toledo Bend gates open
- Updates on the Holcombe Road Fire in southern Crockett County
- Denison teacher dies after she was hit by a truck in her neighborhood
- Cooke County authorities make murder arrest
- Longview man files federal lawsuit on mistaken identity claims
- 14-year-old boy playing with gun accidentally shoots and kills himself, Houston police say
- Cadillac driver killed trying to pass 18-wheeler in southeast Houston
- Woman buying milk killed, another injured in southeast Houston shooting
- Odessa: Teenager charged with assaulting man as part of gang initiation
- Murder in northern Archer County under investigation
- Man allegedly paints stolen gun gold, gets arrested
- WFPD: Husband chokes wife after she asks who he is texting
- Police: Armed suspect assaulted airmen then escaped by scaling fence at Dyess AFB – could still pose threat to base
- Family of three rescued from Lake Ft. Phantom Hill in Abilene
- Dr. Dixon back in Lubbock, back behind bars in murder for hire case
- Abilene father indicted, accused of having meth around 9-month-old child
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- Local government
- Lubbock: Mayor Pope’s Politburo: Is this America?
- Mayor wrong; Kemah council right to cut workforce
- North Richland Hills seeing a significant budget shortfall, meaning salary cuts
- Lufkin OKs first reading of ordinance on how hotels, motels are charged utility fees
- Holliday ISD Superintendent Dr. Kevin Dyes set to retire
- Increase in Wichita Co. property values causes concern for some homeowners
- Clay Co. residents sound off about Lake Ringgold
- Lake Wichita Boardwalk nears completion, ribbon cutting on hold
- Lack of visitors leaves Abilene Zoo short on revenue VIDEO
- City of Midland releases video explaining its new utility billing system
- Floydada ordinance looks to thwart poor pet ownership
- Griffith Discusses New Loan Program For Lubbock Small Businesses
- Tarrant County Commissioners Communicate Coronavirus Confusion
- Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo sued over face mask requirement
- Houston mayor denounces state’s plan to control Harvey aid
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- Colleges & universities
- University of North Texas Professor Fired for Criticizing “Microaggressions” Flyer
- No quick answers about aid for cash-strapped UTMB
- Zoning panel OKs Kilgore College for 70-foot logo sign on Longview campus
- Abbott Waives Certain Restrictions On Financial Assistance From Texas College Work-Study Program
- How SMU computer science professors are using their resources to help find a coronavirus vaccine
- UTPB College of Engineering to offer graduate program
- ACU engineering and physics students awarded prestigious scholarships from U.S. Department of Energy
- Texas Tech Laboratory Was State’s First To Offer Coronavirus Testing
- TTUHSC teams bring convalescent plasma treatments to area
- San Antonio Colleges Prepare for Murky Financial Future After Coronavirus
- UTSA Launches Program to Get Small Businesses Back on Sound Footing – waste of resources. These folk are clueless as to the real world.
- Universities Decline Coronavirus Relief. Will They Turn Down Subsidies after the Pandemic?
- UTMB scientist acknowledges safety risks at Chinese lab doing coronavirus research
Pratt’s post for 4/23/2020
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