- AG Paxton Warns County Judges and Local Officials on Unlawful COVID- 19 Orders – more than a month after the most egregious were handed down. Welcome but as with Gov. Abbott, too little too late. See: A.G. Paxton, it’s time to worry about deceptive actions of local governments
- Who Needs a Legislature?
- Governor Abbott Extends COVID-19 Disaster Declaration For All Texas Counties
- Governor Abbott, TDEM Announce Extension Of Federally-Supported Community-Based Testing Sites In Texas
- Texas Democratic Party director, Manny Garcia, says Texas should still be shut down! – the Dem line: In ‘re-opening’ Texas, it’s clear the donors are in charge – Leftists universally resent work and productivity
- Dallas Co. Judge Clay Jenkins’ Tyrannical War Against Abbott
- Gov. Abbott waives late fees for certain occupational license renewals
- Gov. Abbott announces more than $1 billion approval in food benefits for Texas families
- In Abbott’s hands, executive orders look like suggestions – many of them were. Who are these folk who are demanding autocratic tyranny? Leftists.
- Governor Abbott, Lt. Governor Patrick, Speaker Bonnen Send Letter To Congressional Leaders Urging Support For Employer Liability Protections
- New appointment system in the works for Texas DPS driver license offices
- Nelson Announces Zero-Based Budgeting for All Texas Agencies
- Craddick: Prorationing created too many questions
- TEA prepares parents, students for changes to 2020-21 school calendar – just go back to school and get on with it.
- Railroad Designation Decision Brings Texas One Step Closer To High-Speed Rail – I sympathize with land owners but in this case they are flat wrong. This was envisioned in our original constitution.
- Report Highlights Gaps in Texas’ Fight Against Human Trafficking
- AG Paxton Asks Texas Supreme Court to Order Election Officials Who Urged Voters to Submit Unlawful Mail-in Ballot Applications to Follow Texas Law, more
- Complaint filed over Texas AG Ken Paxton’s tactics to limit mail-in voting
- LULAC lawsuit: Texas’ age limit for mail-in ballots discriminates against Latinos – yeah sure and clean water being clear discriminates against bumble bees.
- SD14: Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, vying for Texas Senate seat, officially resigns
- Lunatic libs get a fight for SD14; Vote by mail effort beyond absurd
- TX4: Race to replace U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe gathers steam as Republican activists set date to pick his likely successor
- Cascade of endorsements animate Texas’ Democratic U.S. Senate runoff upended by coronavirus
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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 5/13/2020 (pdf) – 1133 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, around 10% of a “regular” year’s flu death rate? Even if it grows by 5 times it would still be half the rate of annual influenza deaths.
- Daily COVID-19 reported cases don’t say what we think they say
- 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
- Texas Democratic Party director, Manny Garcia, says Texas should still be shut down! – the Dem line: In ‘re-opening’ Texas, it’s clear the donors are in charge – Leftists universally resent work and productivity
- Lock down failure
- People Power vs. Police Power
- Texas AG Ken Paxton: Coronavirus restrictions in San Antonio go too far
- Paxton warns Austin, San Antonio, Dallas to loosen coronavirus restrictions
- ‘It became real, and it became alive’: How coronavirus jolted an isolated Texas county
- The ‘COVID cliff’: Patients quickly get very ill — even after being stable – this is being presented as new and unique, it is not. Many illnesses present this way at times.
- Austin man has been quarantining during the pandemic alone in a ghost town
- Attorney: State suspends Michigan barber’s license as he continues to resist orders
- Kingville man learns $5,000 lesson on why you shouldn’t fake coronavirus, it’s a crime VIDEO
- Country artist Pat Green surprises ICU nurse with a virtual concert
- Texas JBS meatpacking plant rejects state effort to test workers
- Texas prisons to begin widespread coronavirus testing for inmates with self-administered tests
- Coronavirus tests are supposed to be free. Some Texans are still being saddled with large bills. – ask and make sure you understand what you are doing.
- Mark Cuban hired “secret shoppers” to spy on 300 Dallas businesses
- Bonnen: ‘We’re Not Asking You to Go to Vietnam. We’re Asking You to Wear a Mask.’ – and he continues to show he is an idiot.
- Majority in poll need at least 2-3 months before they’ll be comfortable in public without mask – utter stupidity.
- Texas pro teams want to play, but worry about lawsuits and causing coronavirus outbreaks, Cornyn says
- For workers with health problems in Texas, anxiety and confusion over returning to jobs
- Witte, Briscoe, and Pacific War Museums Set to Reopen
- Michigan Gov. Whitmer upset that there are threats against her – she’s very lucky it is only threats at this point.
- Mayor of Los Angeles says city will not be completely open ‘until we have a cure’ – we don’t have cures for almost any virus! Shows what this is about.
- Gov. Jared Polis, who shut down a restaurant for opening early, asks Elon Musk to move Tesla to Colorado – moron
- NYU study calls into question the accuracy of the Abbott Labs rapid coronavirus test
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- House coronavirus relief bill would send $29 billion to Texas cities, counties – more Democrat windfall of our money to governments not to the taxpayers their orders destroyed.
- Democrats ‘go big’ with $3T coronavirus relief proposal, and billions for struggling cities – with our $. It’s a payoff to the cities for killing the country.
- COVID-19 Is the Tax Increasers’ Best Ally
- Fed’s Powell warns of prolonged recession, tells Washington to keep bolstering economy – he’s crazy
- Justices Fear ‘Chaos’ if States Can’t Bind Electors’ Votes
- Supreme Court Hangs up on Phone Arguments
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden Named in List of Obama Officials Who Requested to ‘Unmask’ Flynn
- Beto joins Biden’s virtual campaign trail – good, yet another problem for Biden
- Google routinely hands your smart phone data to the police
- Adam Schiff trips over his own BS in rush to accuse Trump of trying to ‘distract’ from coronavirus
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- Border / immigration
- 25 Illegal Aliens Found in Tractor-Trailer at Checkpoint near Border in Texas
- Cartel-Connected Smuggler Arrested in South Texas Has Coronavirus, Say Feds
- Trump Ramps up Expulsions of Illegal Alien Youth, Citing Virus – good
- Family of Guatemalan Woman Shot Dead by Border Agent Sues
- Deported Child Sex Offender Arrested After Illegally Crossing Border into New Mexico
- Narco-Terrorist Caught Planning to Bomb Mexican Border State Government Building
- Mexican Government Returns Military Forces to Fight Against Cartels
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- Business
- Gov. Abbott: Tesla is ‘genuinely interested in Texas’
- Texas Leaders Court Elon Musk After Potential Tesla Move Announced
- Mark Cuban hired “secret shoppers” to spy on 300 Dallas businesses
- Pat Hobbs discusses the impact of COVID-19 on Rio Grande Valley jobs
- Texas-based Academy Sports and Outdoors sued over ammunition sale
- Abilene cattle industry takes hit during pandemic
- Monte Dean Cluck to receive 2020 National Golden Spur award
- Texas JBS meatpacking plant rejects state effort to test workers
- Dallas Firm Reaches $52M Settlement for Facebook Workers Suffering From PTSD
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Tornadoes seen near Bastrop; up to 4 inches of rain in Austin
- Armed man going door-to-door in San Marcos demanding cash, officials say
- 2 Arrested After Texas Police Find 6-Year-Old Locked in Shed
- Police Video Shows Chaos in Fort Worth Park as Gunshots Erupt
- Officials Probe Why Man Killed on Austin Runway Was There – mainly because airport TSA “security” is merely theater security.
- Man charged with shooting firearm in air in Odessa – surprised anyone noticed
- Woman charged with creating Facebook profile of ex-boyfriend
- Odessa mother, boyfriend charged in injury
- Odessa family stung by bees; upset with lack of city assistance
- Police: Pedestrian identified after man drove to Austin bar with his ‘mangled corpse’ in the car
- Man accused of murdering 89-year-old woman would like to go home, start a family
- Lubbock man inducted on multiple counts of abusing children
- Man accused of murdering ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend indicted on new charges
- Shallowater man indicted on charge of aggravated assault against a public servant
- Pedestrian killed by driver in north Harris County hit-and-run
- Suspect in drug-related triple killing faces new murder charge
- Man killed in front of 10-month-old child in NE Harris County
- Crime watch: Cattle missing in North and West Texas
- Couple faces multiple charges after stealing livestock, identities
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- Local government
- AG Paxton Warns County Judges and Local Officials on Unlawful COVID- 19 Orders – more than a month after the most egregious were handed down. Welcome but as with Gov. Abbott, too little too late. See: A.G. Paxton, it’s time to worry about deceptive actions of local governments
- Texas AG Ken Paxton: Coronavirus restrictions in San Antonio go too far
- South San Antonio ISD could name superintendent finalist today
- City of Lubbock prepares for budget hit – should have handled this in March.
- Grand Jury says no to charging Bowie city manager
- City of Wichita Falls reopens its facilities Monday
- Relative of Wichita County inmate says inmates aren’t receiving mail, commissary items VIDEO
- Lockney water nearing Drought Contingency Plan enactment levels
- Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, vying for Texas Senate seat, officially resigns
- Under Public Pressure, Carrollton Foregoes Grant Money for UTVs and Drone Software
- Dallas city officials want 4,000 tests a day, more focus on areas with high cases of coronavirus
- Dallas Co. Judge Clay Jenkins’ Tyrannical War Against Abbott
- Uber gets two-year extension for Dallas economic incentives
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- Colleges & universities
- A few dozen A&M San Antonio dorm students are riding out the coronavirus storm
- UTPB: New Emergency Grant Program: CARES Act Funding
- TTU School of Veterinary Medicine Adds Accomplished Assessment and Curriculum Expert
- TTU Chancellor discusses healthcare beyond COVID-19 in Chamber webinar VIDEO
Pratt’s post for 5/13/2020
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