- Texas to require all police officers receive implicit bias training, in first George Floyd-inspired reform
- In George Floyd-inspired protests, Texas organizers find new allies in quest for police reforms
- Greg Abbott has condemned the death of George Floyd, but he’s been silent on Texas’ recent history of police killings – it’s not his place to speak, it is that of DA’s, grand juries and jurors.
- Texas State Rep. Steve Toth on COVID-19 and the Texas Budget
- Texas Comptroller unveils some bleak economic statistics
- Comptroller Glenn Hegar Distributes $690 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments; 11.7% less than year ago
- June Top 20 Cities Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary, all cities
- AG Paxton Joins FCC and Six States in Effort to Halt Unlawful Robocalls
- Governor Abbott Announces Intent To Appoint University Student Regents And Student Representative To The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Invasive Beetles Have Killed East Texas Ash Trees For Years, But Now They’re Spreading
- Crockett County warns of ballot by mail application scam
- How a Dozen Texas GOP County Chairs Caused Turmoil within the Party
- Plaintiffs fold hand in Texas state court lawsuit seeking expansion of voting by mail during coronavirus – they knew it was B.S. to begin with, it is all seeking political partisan edge.
- SD14 special: Poll paid for by charter school group shows Sara Eckhardt with big lead over Rep. Eddie Rodriguez
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- Coronavirus related
- Lawsuit against Abbott’s virus orders is sound, will judges have fortitude?
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas lawmakers welcome ‘surge’ in COVID-19 testing for minorities, but say more is needed, Some work to make the WuFlu into a racial grievance issue
- Texas Has 2,000 Virus Patients in Hospitals for First Time – a small #
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/10/2020 (pdf) – 1853 deaths in Q1 plus over 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.
- Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- WHO Now Says Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus Is Rare
- Dr. John Lee: Science, doubt and the second wave of COVID
- Liberals: Which ‘Science’ Are We Supposed to Believe? – “Earlier this year the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rejected the notion that the public should be wearing face masks. CDC Director Robert Redfield told a House committee, “There is no role for these masks in the community.” And U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted, “STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing the general public from catching coronavirus.””
- Costa Rica to resume use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 treatment
- New data suggests COVID-19 is weakening in deadliness
- Doctors around world say COVID-19 may be losing its potency, becoming less deadly
- Asymptomatic Infected Rarely Spread COVID-19
- Are asymptomatic people spreading the coronavirus? A WHO official’s words spark confusion, debate – just crawl back under your beds.
- Viral contagion: The uncontainable spread of fake coronavirus news
- Hood County Declares Itself “Sanctuary County for All Businesses”
- Outside of Texas’ big cities, some are still waiting nearly a month for coronavirus test results from state-run mobile units
- A growing number of Americans feel the worst of COVID-19 has passed
- Birx says dozens of coronavirus testing sites have been destroyed by rioters
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump overrules Pentagon, vows to keep Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals’ names on Army posts
- Texan, Texas Tech graduate Air Force Gen. Charles Brown confirmed as first black service chief of staff
- Trump administration opposes extending enhanced unemployment benefit
- Sens. Cruz, Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Resolution Calling for Justice for George Floyd and Opposing ‘Defund the Police’
- Sens. Cruz, Cotton, Lankford Introduce Reforms to NEPA to Roll Back Burdensome Regulations, Cut Red Tape
- Sen. Cruz Urges Secretary of Defense to Protect Religious Freedom of Military Service Members
- Did the Trump Tax Cuts ‘Work’?
- Ex-Judge appointed in Flynn case says DOJ effort to dismiss charge an abuse of power – utter insanity.
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Jacksonville, Florida Is Front-Runner for Trump Convention Speech – a good spot.
- Is Jacksonville Ready to Host the GOP Convention with Ten Weeks to Prepare?
- In Dallas, Trump to talk race relations and policing ahead of $10M fundraising dinner
- Tom Arnold: Time to Get Rifles to ‘Go Nose to Nose with Trump’s Gang of Misfit Tools’ – the so tolerant Left!
- Joe Biden proposes $300 million in new funding for police because defunding the police is actually pretty expensive
- Bitter Hillary Is Still At It
- ‘Republicans Pounce,’ Minneapolis Edition
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- Border / immigration
- Migrant Rescued After Being Lost for 5 Days in Texas Desert near Border
- 33 Illegal Aliens Found in Two Tractor-Trailer Smuggling Incidents in Texas
- Federal Judge Briefly Stops US From Expelling Illegal Immigrant Teen
- Migrants In Texas Send Less Money To Families In The Developing World
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- Business
- June Top 20 Cities Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary, all cities
- As old media squabbles, new media thrives
- NASA endorsement allows SpaceX to shift focus to Starship
- Amid WuFlu outbreak, Austin’s Karavel Shoes rethinks its business model
- April airport passenger traffic in Austin drops nearly 100%
- San Antonio theme parks, hotels begin reopening
- Permian Basin sees a dramatic increase in employment for the month of April
- Occidental to review Mideast assets in bid to cut debt
- RIP: Henry Bartell Zachry, Jr., of H.B. Zachry Company, passes away at 86
- Protests put Austin’s black-owned businesses in the spotlight
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Is slogan sharing more important than saving actual lives?
- Abolish the police. Then what?
- Houston gives George Floyd a rousing, tearful farewell
- George Floyd laid to rest in Houston as protests against police brutality and calls for change continue
- Al Sharpton Uses Floyd Funeral to Demand The NFL Give Kaepernick A Job
- In San Antonio, police are allowed to use chokeholds but as a last resort
- Texas to require all police officers receive implicit bias training, in first George Floyd-inspired reform
- #MeToo déjà vu
- Texas State Univ. no longer employing woman who allegedly called protesters a ‘bunch of monkeys’
- Protesters demand Ector Co. trustee’s resignation
- Wichita Falls resident concerned about local confederate statues – have the monuments killed anyone, done anything? No.
- Denton County Approves Removal of Confederate Memorial in Unanimous Vote
- Sully statue on Texas A&M campus found defaced with graffiti
- ‘Cops’ Canceled By Paramount Network
- Protesters May Not Abolish Cops, but They’ve Managed to Abolish Cops, the TV Show
- We need the police, we just need them to be better
- Antifa Members Arrested for Looting in Austin Amid Nationwide Riots
- Christians Gather to Pray for Healing and Unity in Dallas
- ‘Screaming Out for Justice’: 11th Day of San Antonio Protests Aims to Unsettle
- Black Lives Matter Protests being met by armed residents in some small cities
- Birx says dozens of coronavirus testing sites have been destroyed by rioters
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Ft. Stockton police find man’s body in car
- Mother alleges wrongful death in 2018 Austin police shooting
- Family of Texas man in critical condition after arrest doubts Graham police account
- ‘Live PD’ says video of in-custody death of Javier Ambler has been destroyed
- Latest Police Video Shows Pflugerville Man’s Death During Arrest
- Police arrest woman after she allegedly threatened people with a box knife
- Police: Couple arrested in relation to stolen video games
- Six-vehicle pileup closes Flyover in Wichita Falls
- Abilene man arrested for intoxicated manslaughter crash after night of drinking at gentleman’s club
- Abilene police say man found in Lake Fort Phantom drowned
- San Angelo man indicted for child’s death
- Cochran Co. grand jury returns 13 indictments
- Lubbock PD searching for missing person, last seen in Nov 2019
- Lubbock man indicted on a charge of promoting prostitution
- Teen missing in San Jacinto River after morning swim
- Teen girl shot twice during argument in SE Houston
- Boyfriend shoots woman’s ex who kicked down apartment door in SE Houston
- Lists of Protester Demands to Defund, Reform Police Departments Sweep Texas Cities
- In George Floyd-inspired protests, Texas organizers find new allies in quest for police reforms
- Greg Abbott has condemned the death of George Floyd, but he’s been silent on Texas’ recent history of police killings – it’s not his place to speak, it is that of DA’s, grand juries and jurors.
- Body of Missing Baby Found in Car Overturned in Red River
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- Local government
- Austin City Council reaches rare unity in Police Department rebuke – exactly, one of the only things these liberals can agree on is to rebuke police.
- City of Austin, Cap Metro OK $10B Project Connect transit plan – the massive debt and spending just can’t stop for these people. This type of thing ensures extremely high property taxes for decades to come.
- Harris County Commissioners vote to study police procedures
- Harris County to Explore Police and Criminal Justice Reforms in Wake of Riots
- City of Midland considers lowering bills for major water consumers
- Midland County department heads asked to lower their budgets by 15 percent
- Midland Co. proposed county budget would cut total by 43 percent
- WFISD officials mull school lunch prices, budget shortfall
- Finished and upcoming lake projects discussed at Lake Wichita RC meeting
- Bowie city councilor Thomas Kent resigns, search for new city councilor begins
- County distributes energy credits to Bowie, Nocona EDCs, child welfare board
- Hockely Co. commissioners discuss proposed budget for DA
- Lubbock Councilman Griffith Talks Citizens Tower, Impact Fees, and More AUDIO
- Lubbock city council taking it slow on impact fees – the “fees” are not needed at all.
- To eliminate health disparities, Parkland must address the root issues in black communities – so how is it a hospital’s role to ‘eliminate health disparities?”
- Most Dallas council members consider defunding the police and using money for other services
- SAWS Flushing Half of Vista Ridge Water As Cost Overrun Nears $100 Million
- Letter Calls on San Antonio ISD to Reevaluate School Police Funding
- Hood County Declares Itself “Sanctuary County for All Businesses”
- Denton County Approves Removal of Confederate Memorial in Unanimous Vote
- Analysis: A surprise accountability test for local politicians
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- Colleges & universities
- Governor Abbott Announces Intent To Appoint University Student Regents And Student Representative To The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Texas State Univ. no longer employing woman who allegedly called protesters a ‘bunch of monkeys’
- Sul Ross program coordinators recognized
- ACU nursing program receives maximum re-accreditation from CCNE
- Angelo State announces 2020 outstanding graduate students
- Wayland Takes Tests Out of Admissions
- Texas Tech Announces Plans To Return To Campus
- TTU: Economics And Public Policy Expert Joins Texas Tech School Of Veterinary Medicine
- TTU: University Outreach And Engagement Launches Engage At Tech Central
- Texas Tech Alumnus Chosen To Head U.S. Air Force
- Sully statue on Texas A&M campus found defaced with graffiti
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- Military
- US Navy to ban Confederate battle flags from all bases, ships and aircrafts
- Sen. Cruz Urges Secretary of Defense to Protect Religious Freedom of Military Service Members
- Trump overrules Pentagon, vows to keep Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals’ names on Army posts
Pratt’s post for 6/10/2020
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