- Lawmakers Demand Abbott Accelerate Efforts to Reopen Texas – again, it’s too timid, too late, and too controlling.
- As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott phases in reopening, some in his party are testing his rules
- Statesman: Ill-timed plan to reopen puts Texans at risk – funny how poverty is not a harm to people in the minds of these idiots
- 63 Texas lawmakers urge Gov. Abbott to do more to protect elderly care home residents, more – that was the job of local health departments and they failed. See: Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Hood County Attorney Takes Stand Against Governor’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Shutdown Orders
- Speaker Bonnen: Holding a nuanced view of reopening the economy is not a sign of weakness
- AG Paxton Defends Private Property Rights from Federal Overreach
- Pratt: It’s time Texas’ AG defends us from deceptive actions of local governments
- AG Paxton Joins 17-State Amicus Defending Federalism
- AG Paxton Joins Amicus Brief Defending Pro-Life Medicaid Program in South Carolina
- Appeals Court Tosses Lawsuit on Texas Law Boycotting Israel
- Unemployment Surge Pushing State Funds Toward Insolvency
- Governor Abbott Announces New TWC Guidance For Unemployment Claimants
- Texas won’t cut off unemployment for over-65 workers who refuse to return to jobs due to coronavirus
- Railroad Commission rolls out proposed order for crude oil production cuts – vote against, against, against!
- RRC seeks public comment on draft order
- CLEAT threatens lawsuit against TDCJ over death of Middleton Unit correctional officer
- The Case that Could Completely Reshape Texas Families
- Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration For Six Texas Counties Following Severe Weather
- Fort Bend County Judge spars with TDCJ over prisoners who contracted coronavirus and are now housed in Richmond
- Transportation Commission approves $3.4 billion in funding for Capital Express central segment, 3-1
- Texas dental board votes to let dentists resume performing elective procedures, providing routine care
- Texas Democrats seek swift ruling on expanding mail-in votes
- Sen. John Cornyn’s leadership PAC donates $25,000 to ‘Feeding Texas’
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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 4/30/2020 (pdf) – 732 deaths in Q1 plus April, a third of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,000 for the year. Did we shut down for that?
- COVID-19 Diagnoses, Fatalities Continue to Climb in Texas – only 1,702 in hospital and yet the entire mobilization was to keep from overwhelming hospitals. 732 fatalities is .027 of the positive tested cases (27,054) which we now know is likely much smaller than the actual number of those who have had the virus.
- Coronavirus hot spots flare as Texas prepares to reopen
- How Close Is US to Herd Immunity for COVID-19? What the Numbers Show
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- The Swedish experiment looks like it’s paying off
- Understanding why mask wearing is little more than virtue signaling
- Do face masks work?
- Government Bears the Burden of Proof on Coronavirus Restrictions
- The Most Tragic Case of Governmental, Medical, and Media Malpractice In the History of the World
- Our Dress Rehearsal for a Police State
- ‘Army’ of contact tracers will be needed in coronavirus fight. Experts say that could cost billions. – another B.S. excuse to spend billions and maintain control over more people. The new data showing massively more infections than previously thought shows most contact tracing to be pointless.
- Fascist America: Brought to you by our elected officials
- Coronavirus Infections Surge in Native American Region in NM – demonstrating that even extreme heavy-handed lockdowns, as NM has, do not stop or significantly protect against virus spread.
- Leftwingers at Santa Fe New Mexican bemoan how Texas is spoiling Lujan Grisham’s soviet-style control – back on 25 March.
- Six Weeks Later, Cuomo Finally Orders Deep Cleaning of New York City Subway Trains – all the whining and as usual obvious issues went undone.
- You are a volunteer slave Cuomo says VIDEO
- New York Gov. Cuomo taps San Antonio’s Henry Cisneros [a felon] for panel to reopen New York – laughable
- America Now ‘The King of Ventilators’ as Donald Trump Beats Demand – see: The Coming Fire Sale of COVID-19 Ventilators
- 250 Chinese Ventilators Could Kill Coronavirus Patients, UK Doctors Warn
- San Antonio City Council extends stay-at-home order
- Some San Antonio churches to welcome back worshipers this Sunday
- Dentists petition Texas to allow insurance to pay for teledentistry during coronavirus pandemic – how the hell does that work?
- 26 ICE detainees test positive for COVID-19 in Jones Co.
- Lubbock officials update community prior to reopening businesses – Lubbock’s political cover committee (LERT) opening guide is here.
- A&M AgriLife Extension Service Announce Free Online Training For Child Care Providers During COVID-19 Response
- Herman: A chef questions Texas restaurant reopenings
- Essential Confusion
- Dallas re-opening some golf courses, tennis courts and other facilities, programs – never should have been closed.
- Trump administration won’t extend coronavirus social distancing guidelines into May – remember that it best such only slows the infection spread, it does not keep the same number from being infected.
- Hydroxychloroquine Has about 90 Percent Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients, States Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
- Dr. Mark McClellan on COVID-19 and Reopening the Texas Economy – another “expert” who lives in a fantasy world in which everything can be just right before action is taken. The world simply does not work that way and it is why so many cannot be leaders and entrepreneurs.
- In Houston’s Chinatown, restaurants plan to feed front-line workers during the pandemic
- Some question delay in reopening spas, salons in Abilene
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump poised to unveil bridge loans for ailing oil companies
- Sen. Cruz: To Weather Perfect Storm, American Energy Producers Need Critical Access to Capital Now
- Sen. Cruz Calls on Attorney General Barr to Investigate Local Officials Abusing Power, Targeting Religious Communities
- Donald Trump Predicts ‘Total Exoneration’ for Michael Flynn
- FBI Lied, Hid Evidence, Covered Up State of Disorder
- NASA contract award for manned lunar landers rejects SLS
- Dallas woman marked ‘deceased’ on stimulus check got $1,200 from Uncle Sam four months after she died – not surprising.
- 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rules proof-of-citizenship voter registration requirement unconstitutional
- CARES Act Should Prioritize Small Businesses
- Sen. Cruz, Colleagues to President Trump: Reject State Bailouts
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden mocked for appearing to fall asleep during virtual town hall
- McConnell: Biden Will Have to Release Information on Reade Allegations
- Could Biden sex assault charges force him from ticket?
- Nadler: Thousands Will Die If Trump Rushes Reopen to Help Win 2020
- Meghan McCain: ‘Travesty’ Trump Wants to Endanger Lives for Political Rallies
- Romney: America Didn’t Look ‘Strong’ with Trump’s Coronavirus Response
- The viral effect of AOC and her communist buddies
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- Border / immigration
- Deported Violent Felon Arrested After Illegally Crossing Texas Border
- UN Urges Governments to Release Illegal Aliens – time to withdraw all funding.
- Judge affirms White House plan to suspend visas for child migrants
- Sens. Cruz, Colleagues Urge State Department to Work with Mexico to Avoid Disruption to Supply Chain
- As coronavirus cases mount in immigration detention centers, a coherent plan and not political pandering will slow spread
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- Business
- US 1st quarter GDP crashes
- American Airlines Posts $2.2 Billion Loss During Pandemic
- Southwest Airlines Raises Another $6B
- Trump poised to unveil bridge loans for ailing oil companies
- Oil buoyed by optimism on demand recovery, output cuts
- Cheniere nearly doubles profits in first quarter
- Halliburton closes 2 Texas locations, lays off 240 in Oklahoma
- ConocoPhillips cuts production as it posts loss
- Exxon freezes dividend for first time in 13 years
- Houston company adds 10 million barrels of crude storage in Corpus Christi
- Kinder Morgan raises dividend even while losing $306 million in Q1
- Saudi oil flotilla heading to U.S. to worsen port congestion
- AMLO’s big Pemex rescue plan hobbled by $23 billion loss
- Industry groups dispute new EDF research on growing emissions
- Frost Bank’s 1Q profit sinks 59% on coronavirus woes
- ‘It’s intimidation’: S.A. landlord locks out tenants, despite pandemic and eviction moratoriums – landlord will be in big trouble, you cannot do residential lockouts the way you can in commercial leases. You must have an eviction from a court and law enforcement has to execute it.
- Albertson’s United Family supermarkets returning to regular hours May 1
- 20,000th Pratt & Whitney engine installed in Air Tractor aircraft
- The Coronavirus Is Killing My Business
- San Antonio Entrepreneurs Focus on Surviving Beyond Pandemic
- CPS Energy Could Take a $100M Financial Hit Because of Coronavirus
- As unemployment roils the state, some Texans have given up on trying to get help
- Texas Dairy Farmers Hurt by Lack of Demand, Forced to Dump Milk
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Texan arrested for shooting at Cuban Embassy in DC – commies not injured.
- Suspected Neo-Nazi Gets Prison for West Texas Gun Crime
- Man charged in fatal shooting booked into Ector County jail
- Midland Police investigating body found in 3700 block of Lousiana
- Suspect arrested for breaking into store for pork rinds
- Pedestrian run over by 18-wheeler on Hwy. 79 in Archer Co.
- Driver checking on flat tire hit, killed on I-20 in Callahan County
- Man indicted for capital murder in shooting death of Sweetwater teen
- Levelland: Police locate missing woman, Jill Clark
- DPS investigating deadly rollover crash in Lubbock County, ME called to the scene
- Driver injured in shootout with police after lengthy pursuit ends in Baytown
- Woman found shot to death in north Houston apartment
- Suspect in custody after pursuit involving HCSO deputies in east Harris County
- Machete-swinging man arrested by Abilene police Wednesday
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- Local government
- San Antonio, Bexar County stay-home orders modified, extended through May 19
- Abilene area receives more than $450K in public housing grants
- Two offices of Lubbock County Tax Assessor-Collector open to public, starting May 4
- Hood County Attorney Takes Stand Against Governor’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Shutdown Orders
- Fort Worth and Tarrant County Fall in Line With Abbott’s Reopen Texas Plan
- Fort Bend County Judge spars with TDCJ over prisoners who contracted coronavirus and are now housed in Richmond
- Wichita Falls ISD trustees discuss property in closed session
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- Colleges & universities
- Society donates $7,000 to feed MSU students
- TSTC resuming hands-on instruction to limited students on May 4
- Hardin-Simmons University expects on campus classes for Fall 2020 semester
- Abilene Christian University to reopen campus this fall
- Texas A&M, UH systems plan to open colleges this fall
- A&M-San Antonio Begins Preparations for Fall Opening
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- Military
- Air Force posts sharpest jump in annual sex assault report among the service branches
Pratt’s post for 4/30/2020
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