- Primary Runoff Early Voting to Begin a Week Sooner Than Expected, Per Abbott’s New Orders, more
- Experts: Gov. Abbott acting within his legal authority with coronavirus executive orders – see: Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce Over $1 Billion In Pandemic Food Benefits For Texas Families
- Rep. Landgraf issues notes from conference call with governor
- AG Paxton Joins Letter Urging Congress to Protect Businesses from Baseless Lawsuits as the Economy Reopens
- Texas courts vary proceedings amid pandemic, judge says state, municipal administration sending mixed guidelines
- Texas oil producers were cutting output before Railroad Commission chose not to, Commissioner Christi Craddick says
- Leftists: In Texas, marijuana arrests remain racially targeted – and I’m sure the plant collaborates too by giving white folk a better “high!”
- Will Texas’ Teacher Retirement System Be Able to Offload Lavish Lease?
- Physician Says Texas Pharmacy Board Limited Coronavirus Medicine
- Ag. Commissioner Miller announces generous donation to rural hospitals
- Huberty: Even as Texas faces financial hardship, public education funding must be prioritized – Huberty is and has always been a shill for big school spending
- Freedom Caucus fights move of Alamo Cenotaph
- AG Paxton Files Brief Seeking to Prevent Voter Fraud Through the Unlawful Expansion of Mail-In Voting
- Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, & Michelle Obama’s ‘Non-Partisan’ Org Team with Far-Left MoveOn for Mail-In Voting
- Harris County’s Top Election Official Resigns Amid Mail-Ballot Controversies
- Broken Record; Leftwing Litigation Ploy
- As her party railed against attempts to expand mail-in voting, a Texas GOP congressional candidate gave a “green light” – she’s ignorant and wrong
- Empower Texans President On Temporary Leave Fighting Cancer
- SD14: Republican Don Zimmerman makes run for Austin-area Senate seat official – good news, no reason to surrender without a fight
- Is 2020 The Year Texas Becomes A Battleground State?
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- Coronavirus related
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Dr. John Lee: Ten reasons to end the lockdown now
- Texas cities, counties abused their emergency power with COVID-19 restrictions, task force says
- Why has Texas fared better than many states in confronting the coronavirus?
- COVID-10 in Texas: An update with context.
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 5/11/2020 (pdf) – 1100 deaths in Q1 plus Q2’s April and part of May. 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? Note that the fatality rate in Texas is 2.7 percent. That figure is based on testing only the most heavily symptomatic persons so the actual percentage figure is much lower.
- The Back Mic: Timeline of Governor Abbott’s Response to Coronavirus
- Are daily local COVID-19 case number proclamations useful?
- Podcast: Pratt on Texas Interview with Dr. Stephen Balch AUDIO
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Governor Abbott Directs TDEM, DSHS, HHSC To Test All Nursing Home Residents, Staff In Texas
- Texas Moves to Test Everyone in Nursing Homes as Deaths Rise
- How a small NJ nursing home is beating the coronavirus odds – this proves my point that worrying about these locations first and decidedly indeed would have made a huge difference. These folk did it on their own while state and local health departments dawdled.
- Southeast Nursing Home Worker: ‘I’m Terrified of Catching This Again’
- Nursing home testing needs coordination
- Coronavirus outbreaks found at five San Antonio nursing homes
- 60-year-old is the first nursing home employee to die of COVID-19
- State Officials Sending Mixed Messages to Local Governments Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- ‘Remember the à la Mode’: How Shelley Luther bent the world to her will – press hates this woman
- Reid: Trump Moving on Because Coronavirus Mostly Killing Black People – the despicable world view of the permanently aggrieved.
- The coronavirus hits Texans of color harder. You can see it in public opinion polling. – the Democrats heavily supported by those “of color” are the ones hurting them the most.
- For some blacks, coronavirus triggers fear of another Tuskegee experiment
- Report: China Asked W.H.O. to Delay Declaring Coronavirus Pandemic
- Austin’s Mayor Threatens Businesses to Track All Customers
- People Power vs. Police Power
- Carrollton Police Want Coronavirus Cash for More Surveillance – awful
- San Antonio’s Roman Catholic Archbishop Takes to the Skies to Announce Return of Daily Mass
- PA Gov: Stay shut down or no federal funding for you
- Judge: Kentucky churches can gather for in-person worship services
- El Paso-area leaders ask Abbott to let them chart their own course
- Virus Unleashes Wave of Fraud in US Amid Fear and Scarcity
- NIH Director speaks optimistically about vaccine developments and coronavirus mutations
- Physician Says Texas Pharmacy Board Limited Coronavirus Medicine
- Texas Home School Coalition is providing materials for homeschooling during COVID
- COVID-19 is a terrible snob
- Stay-at-home orders saved 5,000 lives in Travis County, study says – an absolute junk study using models that have been grossly wrong at every point.
- Restaurant Lobby Urges Governor to Allow Bars to Open Friday
- Lubbock Business Owner: ‘Unfair Shutdown Order Is Destroying My Livelihood’
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Federal Report Backs Storing High-Level Nuclear Waste In West Texas
- Sen. Cruz Introduces Legislation to Reduce Dangerous U.S. Dependence on China for Critical Minerals
- Trump must resist protectionist trade policies in his response to COVID-19
- Supreme Court hears cases on Catholic schools firing teachers
- Gen. Flynn’s attorney: Oval Office orchestrated against my client
- Any Obama officials involved in Flynn ‘unmasking’ declassified: Source
- On Flynn case: Grassley checks Obama, says FBI abused power in ways Founders, Framers ‘feared most’
- A Casualty of Michael Flynn’s Firing Gets His Redemption
- Trump takes steps to stop federal employee retirement fund from investing in Chinese companies
- DOJ crackdown on China influence inside research universities expands to Arkansas
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump campaign, RNC raise $61.7 million in April, have $255 million on hand
- Biden and DNC raise $60.5 million in April, despite coronavirus-driven economic spiral
- Biden was ‘aware’ of Michael Flynn probe during transition
- Who will be Joe Biden’s co-president?
- Joe Biden’s broken record
- Stacey Abrams endorses Biden – is that good? She’s a nut.
- Biden: When I say women should be believed, I mean the media should try them, or something
- Biden issues ‘warning’ about alleged stimulus corruption: ‘We will punish the wrongdoers’
- Trump is getting trounced among a crucial constituency: The haters
- Trump camp outraged over Jezebel article calling for Stephen Miller to get coronavirus
- ‘Classless’: McConnell says Obama ‘should have kept his mouth shut’ on Trump’s handling of coronavirus
- CBS Journalist Who Made “Kung Flu” Claim Cries Racism a Third Time
- End Electoral College? Be careful what you wish for
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- Border / immigration
- Illegal Immigrant Charged with Shooting at Texas Police Helicopters
- Border Wall Contract Awarded for 14-Mile Section Near Laredo
- Endangered Jaguar at Crux of New Border-Wall Fight – more B.S.
- Gulf Cartel Ammunition, Drugs Seized in South Texas near Border
- Mexican Border State Cops Arrested for Allegedly Extorting Drug Dealers
- Mexican President Demands Apology, Probe into Operation Fast and Furious
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- Business
- Texas would love to have Tesla, but not like this – fortunately the Dallas Morning News editorial board only speaks for itself and a few other nuts.
- Hidalgo County to Tesla: No Shelter-In-Place Order Here
- Birds and Wind Turbines Don’t Mix
- Shale drillers are already reopening wells, pipe giant says
- Texas oil producers were cutting output before Railroad Commission chose not to, Commissioner Christi Craddick says
- With Demand Low, Lots Of Oil Remains In ‘Floating Storage’ Off The US Coast
- COVID-19 Will Cost Texas Agriculture At Least $6 Billion This Year, Experts Say
- Evie Mae’s beloved ‘cue in Wolfforth figured out how to meat the demand during virus restrictions
- Steak ‘N Shake to permanently close more than 50 locations
- Stage Stores files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – thanks Governor
- Toyota reopens San Antonio plant, 12 others in North America
- Houston Rodeo CEO and President Joel Cowley is leaving after 15 years with the organization
- Texas Rangers to host parking lot drive-in concerts at stadium
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Feds: Arsenal Found in the Home of Walmart Threat Suspect
- Anti-Wimp: North Beach homeowner shoots, kills burglar
- Police searching for woman caught on video driving over graves at Houston National Cemetery VIDEO
- Man killed crossing FM 529 in NW Harris County
- Former WWE wrestler Alberto Del Rio arrested in San Antonio after alleged sexual assault
- Carjacking suspect wearing ankle monitor caught near The Galleria
- Murder-suicide takes place in central Midland
- Woman charged with harassing, stalking ex-husband
- Wichita Falls: Sonic employee arrested for allegedly embezzling
- Dallas 6-year-old found tied up in shed; grandmother, boyfriend arrested
- In most recent Lubbock murder, shooter said “It’s all good. He’s gone,” warrant says
- Driver captured after Houston police officer crashes during pursuit
- Woman arrested after chase, ramming deputy’s vehicle in Falls Co.
- Convenience store employee shot during robbery taken to Temple hospital
- Gunman waiting in garage of home shoots Bellmead resident repeatedly
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- Local government
- Wichita County paying just over $9,000 for Judge Gossom’s legal fees for court of inquiry
- Harris County’s Top Election Official Resigns Amid Mail-Ballot Controversies
- Harris County Clerk Trautman’s Resignation Raises Concern for Election Integrity
- Houston plans to furlough about 3,000 workers, use entire rainy day fund to close $169M budget gap
- Austin’s Mayor Threatens Businesses to Track All Customers
- Carrollton Police Want Coronavirus Cash for More Surveillance – awful
- El Paso-area leaders ask Abbott to let them chart their own course
- Midland Co. commissioners decide pandemic pay promise ends May 26
- Midland council to vote on $261 million water deal with Abilene, San Angelo
- Midland: New water meters and ways to track your water consumption
- Bowie city councilors decide to accept applications for the mayor position
- City of Abilene strikes deal for long-term water source with San Angelo, Midland
- Abilene Wylie ISD teachers to get $100 stipend for increased cellphone, internet usage
- Lubbock’s council to evaluate city’s budget after drop in sales taxes due to pandemic – finally? They had time to have emergency meetings to close others down but are just now looking at the budget!
- Lubbock City Council to host meeting in Citizens Tower
- Williamson County issues 198 checks in small-business grants
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- Colleges & universities
- President Eighmy: UTSA to Reopen This Fall, Campus Life Will Look Different
- First Class From Dell Medical School Gets Ready To Graduate In The Midst Of A Pandemic
- DOJ crackdown on China influence inside research universities expands to Arkansas
- MSU Texas student drowns over the weekend in Oklahoma
- Texas Tech University System Regents to Meet Via Videoconference May 14
- Editorial: Don’t keep UT assault records from the public
Pratt’s post for 5/12/2020
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