- More deceptive talk on property taxes coming from local officials
- More than 100 Texas mayors push Gov. Abbott to move on federal relief dollars for smaller cities around the state
- Texas cities, counties abused their emergency power with COVID-19 restrictions, task force says
- State Senator Charles Perry contributes to Dallas salon owner defense – proud to say Charles is my state senator!
- Ted Cruz, at Shelley Luther’s Dallas salon, shows solidarity and gets first haircut in months
- Houston’s leftwing police chief attacks Gov. Abbott for virus “flip-flop” – it was a flip of policy and a bit hypocritical but what Acevedo is saying is that he resents not having the authority any more to abuse citizens with arrest.
- The Back Mic: Timeline of Governor Abbott’s Response to Coronavirus
- Garcia: Abbott gets to play both sides on COVID-19 response
- The judge who jailed Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther was upholding the rule of law – no, he offered her freedom if she denounced herself, he attempted to use her liberty to pry from her a statement of belief – pure Soviet-style.
- 8 Myths About the Case of Texas Hair Stylist Shelley Luther
- Legal Expert: Governor and AG Make ‘Silly and Dangerous’ Hot Mess of Shelley Luther Case
- Governor Abbott, TDEM Apply For FEMA Assistance Funds To Support Texas Food Banks
- SCOTX’s Bill Brewer’s Sanctions Opinion ‘May Do Incalculable Damage to Jury System’
- Licensed gun owners in Texas may soon be able to carry at Lewisville Lake and other Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs
- Texas Workforce Commission considers reinstating job search verification requirements VIDEO
- Appeals Court Delays Texas Execution Set for Next Week
- Oil companies warned about false Railroad Commission inspectors
- Governor Abbott, TEA, Dallas ISD Launch Operation Connectivity Statewide
- Texans for Fiscal Responsibility Joins Cut Red Tape Coalition
- Democrat Front Group Asks Court To Stop Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Threats Over Mail-In Voting
- Legal fight: Is vote by mail a coronavirus option in Texas?
- Same Song, Different Verse; Liberal Assault on Texas Elections
- Why is Kathaleen Wall Misleading Voters and Using Democrats’ Talking Points About Mail-In Voting?
- Alleged Ballot Harvesting in Harris County Prompts Investigation Request by Secretary of State
- John Cornyn Still Leads In Senate Race, But Undecided Voters Could Shift The Balance
- HD60: Runoff Review: Francis Fights to Keep District in Conservative Hands
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- Coronavirus related
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Texas cities, counties abused their emergency power with COVID-19 restrictions, task force says
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 5/8/2020 (pdf) – 973 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. Should our rights have been scuttled for that, less than 10% of a “regular” year’s flu death rate?
- Texas passes grim threshold, marking more than 1,000 COVID-19 fatalities – sad but 1004 is only a 10th of regular deaths from P&I (flu)
- The Back Mic: Timeline of Governor Abbott’s Response to Coronavirus
- Are daily local COVID-19 case number proclamations useful?
- CDC: Identifying Critical Infrastructure During COVID-19
- Podcast: Pratt on Texas Interview with Dr. Stephen Balch AUDIO
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Five Trends in Coronavirus Data Indicate Texas is in Strong Shape
- Harris County Animal Cruelty Task Force credits spike in cases to pandemic, domestic abuse – meaning the stay-at-home order
- Texas Hair Salon Owner Released from Jail — Breaks Down in Tears VIDEO
- California Sheriff: ‘I Refuse to Make Criminals Out of Business Owners’
- Zimmerman: I am ashamed of the police
- CHP blocks Newsom protesters from capitol grounds – inviting bullets
- Report: Suicide Rise from Lockdowns to Kill More than Coronavirus in Australia
- New stay home orders issued for Austin, Travis County, more – live under Leftist leadership and live less free
- San Antonio City Council unanimously passes resolution denouncing COVID-19 hate speech, more – insanity and anti-freedom attitude of Leftists
- If Parents Don’t Demand Open Schools They May Not Get Them
- New York placed an $86 million order for ventilators with an engineer with no history in medical procurement
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Senate Committee Advances Nomination of Texas Attorney Trey Trainor for the FEC
- Trump ‘Not Sure We Even Have a Choice’ on Reopening States
- Cornyn says Senate has ‘responsibility’ to fill any 2020 Supreme Court vacancy. He felt differently in 2016. – there is a difference in that in 2016 it was a non-returning “lame duck” administration, such is not the case now.
- ‘A lot of interest’ in auto bailout in House, GOP congressman calls it ‘socialism’ and ‘cronyism’
- Attorney General: FBI Decided to ‘Lay a Perjury Trap for Gen. Flynn’ VIDEO
- Barr on dismissing Flynn case: What former National Security Adviser told FBI was ‘not a crime’
- Documents: Obama Knew Details of Flynn’s Call with Russian Ambassador
- Transcript: Clapper Admitted No Direct Evidence of Russia Collusion
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- Presidential race / national politics
- What Biden, Sanders and other presidential campaigns learned in Texas
- Nolte: National Media’s Failure on Tara Reade Story Is Deliberate
- Reade wants Biden to withdraw from the presidential race
- Jimmy Kimmel’s fake news about Mike Pence went viral thanks to blue check progressives (Update: Kimmel apologizes) VIDEO
- Jimmy Kimmel Busted for ‘Misleading’ Video Edit to Bash VP Pence
- NPR Compares Trump Administration’s Connecting Coronavirus to Wuhan Lab with ‘Lead-Up to Iraq War’ – NPR gets your tax dollars!
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- Border / immigration
- April Border Patrol Apprehensions Drop 84 Percent from Last Year
- Mexican Cartels Along U.S. Border Have Access to Grenades, Mortars, and Rocket-Propelled Grenades, Seizure Data Reveal
- Border Mother’s Day Traditions Are Being Disrupted By Covid-19
- 3 Nurses Strangled in Mexico; Border Mayor Gets Coronavirus
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- Business
- U.S. Lost 20.5 Million Jobs in April, Unemployment Soared to 14.7%
- Study: 50% of all small businesses to vanish due to Wuhan lock downs
- Companies that have furloughed or laid off Texas workers
- Business has reopened in Texas, but the economy won’t be back anytime soon, experts say
- Baker Hughes rotary oil & gas drilling rig report for 5/8/2020, Rig count plunges for 9th-straight week
- Can oil recover from coronavirus? An industry debate is underway. – the question is when not if.
- Pioneer Natural Resources rolls out executive pay cuts
- EOG Resources cuts another $1B after earnings plummets
- Targa Resources slashes budget again after historic 1st-quarter loss
- Plains All American Pipeline posts $2.8 billion loss in first quarter
- Williams lands Gulf of Mexico pipeline deal with Chevron, Total
- Enterprise, Enbridge still moving forward with offshore export terminal
- Drive-in theater slated for Houston’s Sawyer Yards
- CenterPoint reports $1.2 billion quarterly loss, points to struggling investments and mild weather
- Stars & Stripes sees positive response as first theater to reopen, other Lubbock cinemas developing plans
- How will the pandemic affect San Antonio hotel projects?
- Tech companies brace for return to office life
- Saudi Arabia Invests $500 Million in Parent Company of Austin City Limits Festival
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Jetliner Hits, Kills Man on Austin Airport Runway
- NTSB: Houston Police Helicopter Rotated Before Crashing
- Pilot Killed in Fiery Small-Plane Crash South of Fort Worth
- Lexus and SUV fully engulfed in flames after crash in west Houston
- DWI suspect who took cop’s stun gun killed by officer in north Houston, police say
- San Antonio-Area Priest Removed After Misconduct Allegations
- AG Paxton Will Fight to Keep Convicted Child Murderer Rosa Jimenez in Jail While Her Case Proceeds at the Fifth Circuit
- Midland Police: Man charged with attempted capital murder
- Laredo teen allegedly transported 300 pounds of marijuana
- WF police arrest man for 7 warrants, 255 grams of meth
- Crockett County battles grass fire
- Seminole Fire Department responding to large grass fire along Highway 1788
- Strong wind gusts cause minor damage in Abilene
- Texoma’s Most Wanted Fugitives of the Week
- Former Holliday Eagle in tragic drowning accident
- Abilene airman who scaled fence at Dyess AFB arrested after two weeks on the run, more
- Abilene sex offender fails to register, caught with child pornography
- Man Found Dead After Shots Fired in Central Lubbock
- Man “wanted for questioning” in murder case arrested in Lubbock
- Lubbock: Second Arrest Made in Murder of Christopher Jolly
- Murder suspect, Owens, out of jail must stay at parents’ home in Shallowater
- Austin native arrested after failed attempt to capture Venezuelan president Maduro
- A Mysterious Virus Is Killing Texas Rabbits
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- Local government
- More deceptive talk on property taxes coming from local officials
- Texas cities, counties abused their emergency power with COVID-19 restrictions, task force says
- Governor Abbott, TEA, Dallas ISD Launch Operation Connectivity Statewide
- City of Odessa blows $33,000 paying Austin lawyers
- City of Wichita Falls to continue suspension of water cut-offs
- Jefferson: $270 million in stimulus aid won’t plug holes in San Antonio budget
- San Antonio City Council unanimously passes resolution denouncing COVID-19 hate speech – insanity and anti-freedom attitude of Leftists
- San Antonio city council: Hate speech is more dangerous than the virus itself
- San Antonio Mulls Laws Aimed at Evictions; Landlords Oppose One
- As coronavirus shutdowns sink city budgets, Dallas furloughs almost 500 employees
- VICTORY! Austin ISD Cancels Radical Sex Education for School Year
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- Colleges & universities
- Odessa College professor helps develop PBS documentary
- Howard College hosts drive-thru graduation
- WBU Delivers Graduation Boxes to Students
- TTU: Janis Haney Spent Career Serving Others
- Texas Tech to ring bells 26 times, turn off lights for tornado victims Monday
- St. Edward’s University sees revenue drop ahead
Pratt’s post for 5/8/2020
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