- The Fuzzy Math Behind the Texas Budget AUDIO
- Freedom Caucus Calls for Abbott to End $295M Contact Tracing Contract
- New Concerns Raised Over Company Tasked With Contact Tracing
- GOP State Lawmakers Call on Governor Abbott to End Contact Tracing Program
- Jobless Texans can now receive an additional 13 weeks of unemployment pay
- State Law on Superintendent Severance Excludes Charter Schools – as it should as charters are private companies providing a contracted service, they are not government agencies.
- Anglicans Keep Claim to Over $100 Million in Church Property in Texas – this is one of few proper state rulings on this in the USA.
- Rep. Canales: Long-term institutional changes are needed – what changes? Tell us representative. Who is ignoring the “legacy of racism and oppression?” My party, the Republican Party was created to fight the institutional racism supported by your party, the Democratic Party.
- Texas Capitol community comes together to protect the building, care for DPS stationed inside, Chair Geren says
- Alamo conservator cleans defaced Cenotaph
- Texas Republicans and the never ending war on Planned Parenthood – from the minds of Leftist pro-baby killers.
- Trump says GOP is pulling convention from North Carolina
- Nexstar Broadcasting to host debate in Texas run-off for the democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate – running a test screen would get higher ratings
- TX13: Jackson: Relationship With President Will Immediately Benefit District
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- Coronavirus related
- Conservatives ask court to strike down Abbott coronavirus orders, law behind them, more, more
- With about 400 plaintiffs, Dr. Hotze and other conservatives file suit against Abbott calling his COVID-19 executive orders unconstitutional – originally posted here on 21 May 2020
- Lawsuit against Abbott’s virus orders is sound, will judges have fortitude?
- GOP Lawmakers, Leaders Allege Abbott’s Shutdowns Violate Constitution
- Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/03/2020 (pdf) – 1698 deaths in Q1 plus 2/3rds of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season P&I deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,095 for the annual season.
- Texas Virus Cases Rise Again After One-Day Dropoff
- Number of COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Texas Flat Since Business Reopenings
- First Large Texas County Transfers Coronavirus Contact Tracing to State
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Officer assigned to Texas Capitol tests positive for coronavirus
- Texas Biomed: Larger Primates Best Model in COVID-19 Vaccine Study
- A Mother’s Perspective on the Pandemic
- Tarrant County Judges Express Concerns About Delay in Opening Courts More Fully – come on, it’s nice getting paid without working too much!
- The coronavirus pandemic has strained the mental health of front-line health workers – it has strained everyone and that is why they are strained.
- Court issues restraining order against Fort Davis man offering COVID-19 cures
- Villarreal: If kids are healthy they can go to kindergarten and mom and dad can go to work
- CDC study praises Air Force for limiting coronavirus at San Antonio base
- NJ governor on COVID risk: It’s one thing to protest your nail salon being closed, it’s another to protest police brutality
- Businesses upped to 50% capacity under new Abbott order
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Fired up Ted Cruz Takes Sledgehammer to ‘Authoritarian Democrats’ for Reopen Hypocrisy, Antifa Tolerance
- White House physician report says Trump ‘remains healthy’
- Sen. Cruz Calls Violent Antifa Riots a ‘Terrorist Assault’ on Our Country That Must Be Stopped VIDEO
- Rosenstein agrees that by August of 2017 there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
- Rosenstein Says He Would Not Have Signed FISA Warrant for Page if He Knew Evidence Was Faulty
- Ted Cruz Absolutely Takes Rod Rosenstein’s Head off During Senate Testimony
- Inspector General report finds IRS failing to pursue high-income earners who don’t file taxes
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden lied about having always been endorsed by NAACP
- Citing The Importance Of Police Reform, Julián Castro Endorses Joe Biden – in Castro’s mind the whole world was waiting to hear what he had to say. In the actual world only a handful of people cared.
- Charlamagne tha God Calls: Biden Has ‘Racist’ Senate History
- Biden’s Old-Time Liberalism Finds Its Moment
- New Texas poll shows virtual tie between Trump and Biden, soft support for Cornyn
- Quinnipiac poll: Trump-Biden `too tight to tell’ in Texas
- Trump Up One Point on Biden in Texas, Quinnipiac Poll Shows
- Pelosi stages Bible moment to lecture Trump
- Do ALL lives matter in America? Kings announcer out for saying so
- Zuckerberg Tells Angry Facebook Employees He May Change Censorship Policy on Trump and Other World Leaders
- 1619 Project Creator Says Destroying Property Isn’t Violence, Claims It’s Immoral to Say
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- Border / immigration
- 12 Illegal Aliens Arrested, Xanax Seized at Immigration Checkpoint in Texas
- 58 Illegal Aliens Found in Tractor-Trailer at Interior Checkpoint in Texas
- Mexican Government Freezes Nearly 2000 Cartel Bank Accounts
- Florida News Tropical Storm Cristobal Makes Landfall on Mexico Gulf Coast
- Chinese State Media: Only ‘Open Border Fanatical Globalists’ Disagree with Trump on Immigration
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- Business
- Jobless Texans can now receive an additional 13 weeks of unemployment pay
- Texas crop and weather report for June 3, 2020
- Big Oil could end up even bigger after pandemic
- Shale is bouncing back well at a time with oil above $30
- H-E-B no longer making masks mandatory for customers – damned Leftist-run company. I won’t do business with places that require such if there is any alternative.
- AMC Theatres Says It Has ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Its Future
- Austin’s National Instruments buying data analytics firm for $365M
- Sales of Texas-made Toyota trucks boomed in May — despite the pandemic
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Why no order? Many local officials share vandals’ sentiments.
- Can Texans Count on Leaders to End the Riots?
- Texas Won’t Accept Federal Troops or Send Guardsmen to Washington
- ‘They are overshadowing the death of George Floyd.’ Gov. Abbott decries looting, violence at protests
- Cruz on Fox News: “Rioting Cannot Be Tolerated. It Needs to End and It Needs to End Now.” VIDEO
- Ted Cruz says Antifa protesters are ‘behaving like bigots’
- Resolving Riots in History
- Horse-Mounted Protesters Support George Floyd Family in Houston VIDEO
- Floyd Family Members Join 60,000 Protesters at Houston Rally
- Houston PD arrests more than 200 after downtown rally for George Floyd
- What do protesters want?
- Are ‘bad apples’ the problem, or is policing across the country in need of an overhaul?
- Phillie Looter Pays the Price for Targeting Gun Store, Police Say VIDEO
- GoFundMe page for George Floyd’s family raises $10 million in less than week
- Free Speech, Fires, and Vandalism: Austin Roiled by a Weekend of Peaceful Protests Mixed with Rioting
- Dallas Mayor Blames ‘Outsiders’ for Violence — Arrest Reports Disagree, more
- Dallas Police Chief to Demonstrators: ‘If You Break the Law, We Will Arrest You’ – good for her
- Was Antifa Really Behind The Beating Of A Man In Dallas Shown In A Viral Video?
- Already Terrified By A Local Arrest Video, Midlanders Rally As National Protests Of Police Brutality Continue – a Leftwing stilted report
- Midlander leads protest to talk about racial injustice, Midland Black Lives Matter protest ends in prayer with police
- In Defense of Black Lives march to be held Wednesday in Odessa
- Man with assault rifle at Lubbock protest charged, ‘planned to off racists and MAGA people’, more
- A night in an American riot
- Thanks to tenured radicals, we are witnessing the retribalization of the world
- Celebrities try and heal the nation by making the protests about themselves
- Mayhem in Manhattan
- This riot is brought to you by Nike
- Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban to White People: ‘We Are the Ones That Need to Change’
- Las Vegas: Rioter Shoots Police Officer in the Head from Behind
- George W. Bush Cheers Protests as Sign of ‘Strength’
- Alamo conservator cleans defaced Cenotaph
- Protesters gather at Capitol, Austin police HQ for fifth day of demonstrations
- Texas police have used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters, tactics experts say incite more violence – that’s right, go hug them and hope they don’t stab you while you are doing so.
- Harvard study finds black people die as a result of police pulling back after brutality protests
- NJ governor on COVID risk: It’s one thing to protest your nail salon being closed, it’s another to protest police brutality
- Looters Kill Retired St. Louis Police Captain
- Black Lives Matter’s official social media accounts don’t address riots, looting amid its protests VIDEO
- 1619 Project Creator Says Destroying Property Isn’t Violence, Claims It’s Immoral to Say
- Austin police chief considering curfew
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Funeral set for Fort Bend deputy constable killed by fellow cop
- 2 Plainview officers, suspect injured during Friday callout
- Harris County Jail inmate charged with murder in death of another inmate
- Woman charged with assaulting husband with hammer
- Odessa police searching for man involved in Corvette engine theft
- Man charged in Odessa robbery case
- Three arrests made in Colorado City investigation into death of Odessa teen
- WF police arrest man wanted for stealing vehicle out of Seymour
- ‘Operation Rabbithole’ finalized; 18 sentenced to federal prison
- Motorcyclist killed after hitting hog in Callahan County
- ‘All clear’ given after explosion at gas plant in Snyder, ‘ Flare burp’ blamed for Snyder gas plant fireballs
- 3 Suspected Gang Members Arrested by Lubbock Authorities
- Lubbock man indicted for murder in girlfriend’s slaying
- Appeals court overturns record $706M San Antonio jury verdict
- One killed in house fire on Noble Street in Houston’s Fifth Ward
- Mother of Waco boy found dead in dumpster charged
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- Local government
- Tarrant County Judges Express Concerns About Delay in Opening Courts More Fully – come on, it’s nice getting paid without working too much!
- Fort Worth establishes Office of Police Oversight Monitor
- Collin County Transfers Coronavirus Contact Tracing to State
- Bexar County to Give Federal Coronavirus Funds to Suburban Cities
- Bexar Commissioners Court Favors Scheduled Trial Over Proposed Opioid Settlement
- Mayor: San Antonio Must Tackle ‘Preexisting Poverty’ Worsened by COVID-19 – Leftists are so predictable. He was raising tax and growing government every day but doesn’t see how that worsens poverty.
- Address numbers required by law in Odessa
- Wichita County working on 2019 TIF payments to cities
- Newly formed Bowie Charter Commission to meet
- City of San Angelo in negotiations for partial sale of Ford Ranch
- Lubbock Police Chief: What happened to George Floyd “not professional policing” VIDEO
- New LRGVDC executive director gives first video interview VIDEO
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- Colleges & universities
- University of Texas at Austin to Offer 2,100 Classes Online, Limit Class Size to 40% Capacity – it is amazing the places are still playing this capacity game.
- UT research: A New Switch Could Someday Supercharge Your Phone
- UTPB President: We Must All Find a Way to be Better – really? What a genius.
- MSU’s new and improved Moffett Library
- HPU announces plans for new welcome center
- Veterinary Anatomist With A Passion For Teaching Is Latest Texas Tech Faculty Addition
- TTU: Students applying for Fall 2021 admission not required to submit scores
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- Military
- Veterans Affairs to Remove Nazi Headstones in Texas, Utah – ridiculous. What’s next? Taking down the crosses because it offends athiests? How about the Stars of David? They died fighting for their country and those were their symbols at the time.
Pratt’s post for 6/3/2020
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