- Abbott Embraces ‘Patchwork Quilt’ of Regulation He Once Campaigned Against – see collection of stories on Abbott and Wuflu in the Coronavirus section below
- Texas Students Will Return to School Campuses This Fall, Gov. Greg Abbott Tells Lawmakers, more – well maybe until liberal mayors and press criticize Abbott too much then he might flip again.
- Immediate pushback to Abbott administration moving forward with back to school this fall
- Gov. Greg Abbott forming work group for legislative responses to George Floyd’s death
- It’s time to get rid of Confederate Heroes’ Day as an official state holiday
- As COVID-19 Strains School Budgets, Texas’ Historic Education Cuts Give Lessons
- Inmates report dangerous practices inside Texas prisons
- Lottery, charitable bingo take a hit during pandemic
- AG Paxton Issues Statement on SCOTUS Upholding DACA Program
- State Tax Revenues Down 17 Percent from Projections in 2020
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Monson Chief Administrative Law Judge
- Governor Abbott Appoints Brooks As District Attorney For 50th Judicial District
- Abbott Announces Film Friendly Texas Designation For The City Of Burton
- 401st D.C. in Collin Co: Deleted Social Media Posts Expose Republican Judicial Candidate’s Far-Left Positions
- Defunding the Police: Stances of Candidates in Competitive Texas Races
- TX13: Winegarner Attacks Jackson’s Military Service in Heated West Texas Congressional Runoff
- TX32: GOP Hopeful Genevieve Collins: Pass Amnesty for Dreamers
- Cornyn faces outcry from Democrats after questioning idea of systemic racism
- Cornyn Embraces Amnesty After Supreme Court Ruling – idiot may give the Dems a chance to win in Nov. simply because, remember there will be no straight-ticket voting, they’ll skip voting for him out of disgust.
- Texas Sen. John Cornyn says he’ll file bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- For DACA decision see the Border / immigration section below
- Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee calls for federal probe into recent hangings in Houston area
- Rep. Michael McCaul Releases Report on Origins of Coronavirus
- Did the Trump Tax Cuts ‘Work’?
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Facebook Bans Trump Campaign Ad that Denounces Antifa Violence
- Biden launches first general election ad blitz, $15 million in 6 battleground states
- The ‘blue wall’ is reforming in the Rust Belt
- Extraordinary Hypocrite Sanders complains about Trump Rally
- Nolte: John Bolton Serves Up Another Deep State Nothingburger
- The ill-timed revelations of John Bolton
- John Bolton is a greedy hack
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- Border / immigration
- Clarence Thomas’s DACA Dissent: SCOTUS Binding ‘Unlawful’ Obama Policy on Trump
- Supreme Court Rejects Trump Admin’s Rescinding of DACA
- DACA Ruling “A Major Mistake,” Will “Encourage More Unlawful Executive Action”
- AG Paxton Issues Statement on SCOTUS Upholding DACA Program
- Three Deported Child Molesters Arrested After Illegally Crossing into Texas
- Ex-Governor From Northern Mexico Pleads Guilty in US Court
- Supreme Court’s DACA Ruling Protects More Than 100,000 Texans from Deportation
- A DACA Recipient And A Legal Scholar Say SCOTUS Decision A Victory For Dreamers, But Also Temporary
- Supreme Court blocks elimination of DACA, protecting more than 100,000 Texans from immediate threat of deportation
- Darling: Allow Mexican shoppers to cross into RGV but not pass checkpoints
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- Business
- Jobless claims total 1.5 million, worse than expected as economic pain persists
- Lubbock Restaurant owner says increase to 75 percent occupancy is barely helping, still has to social distance inside
- Closing sales start at many JCPenney stores
- SpaceX hiring engineers for building floating Starship spaceport
- Delta Air Lines ‘committed’ to new Boston hub; Austin, Raleigh focus cities
- AT&T to close stores and slashes staff
- Zachry’s Hemisfair Development Feels Effect of Pandemic Economics
- Texas Trophy Hunters Association Accuses Rival Groups of Poaching Proprietary Information
- Tesla could get more than $60 million in tax breaks to choose site in Travis County
- Job losses in Bexar County still at historic highs
- Archer City nursing home to close July 15th
- Texas-based company clones famous rodeo horse; offers to clone your pet for a price
- Rebuilt Town & Country Drive-In turning 20
- Alarming National And Lubbockl Declines in New Residential Housing Construction
- Sales start for Loren at Lady Bird Lake project
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/18/2020 (pdf) – 2062 deaths in Q1 plus 3/5ths 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. By the way, the # tested in Texas is now a whopping 1,560,335.
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas Governor Says State Can Handle Spike in COVID-19 Cases
- Texas coronavirus hospitalizations hit record highs for a full week
- Lawsuit Filed Against Abbott Over Shutdown Orders, Contact Tracing
- Steve Hotze is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott on contact tracing, saying it infringes on privacy.
- Will conservative campaign against contact tracing undermine Texas’ efforts to stop COVID-19? – they care not a whit about Dem lawsuits adding to election fraud at the DMN!
- 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
- Swiss Policy Research: Facts about Covid-19
- WHO Now Says Asymptomatic Spread Of Coronavirus Is Rare
- Second wave? Where was the first?, Dr. John Lee: Science, doubt and the second wave of COVID, What a Hospital Director Thinks about the ‘Second Wave’
- Texas Students Will Return to School Campuses This Fall, Gov. Greg Abbott Tells Lawmakers – well maybe until liberal mayors and press criticize Abbott too much then he might flip again.
- California Gov. Newson Makes Wearing Masks Mandatory in Public
- Arizona governor backtracks on mask rules
- Abbott Embraces ‘Patchwork Quilt’ of Regulation He Once Campaigned Against
- Texans Frustrated, Angry at Abbott Over Mask Order
- More Lawmakers Speak Out on Abbott’s Mask Order: ‘Legacy Has Been Ruined’
- Governor, May I?
- With Abbott’s OK, Austin requires masks at businesses
- RGV County Judges Implement Abbott’s Mask Order
- Latin America could reach 215 million impoverished people, ECLAC warns – due to virus shutdowns. I told you far more would die from the reaction than from the disease.
- Ohio started reopening six weeks ago, hasn’t seen a coronavirus case surge
- Rep. Michael McCaul Releases Report on Origins of Coronavirus
- Responding to the Coronavirus Crisis and Building a Stronger Health Sector for the Future
- Stay-at-Home order for the City of Tahoka revoked effective immediately
- Mackenzie Place Senior Living confirms positive COVID-19 cases in residents
- CDC: How COVID-19 Spreads
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Much of the mob opposes the country, not bad policing
- Texas cities took quick actions after George Floyd’s death. Advocates doubt they’ll have a big impact.
- ‘It got ugly’: What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio – calling keeping the peace “ugly,” typical useless “journalism”
- Gentrification in George Floyd’s Childhood Neighborhood
- Qualified Immunity Protects Cops From Lawsuits Based On Spurious Accusations
- Laredo to consider removing Confederate flag from iconography around city
- San Antonio Councilman Asks Colleagues to Remove Columbus Statue, Rename Park
- Sam Houston High School Graduates Sit in Protest During National Anthem
- Brother of Man Injured by Austin Police Calls for Rethinking Use of Less-Lethal Force
- Defunding the Police: Stances of Candidates in Competitive Texas Races
- Gov. Greg Abbott forming work group for legislative responses to George Floyd’s death
- It’s time to get rid of Confederate Heroes’ Day as an official state holiday
- Harrington: A Veteran Civil Rights Lawyer on Suing Police and What He’s Learned
- Mars announces Uncle Ben’s rice brand will evolve to help ‘put an end to racial bias and injustices’ – how is a handsome, tie wearing black man on a label “racial bias?”
- Idaho church ‘repents,’ promises to remove window with Confederate icon Robert E. Lee – you guessed it, Methodists
- Gun violence reduction team disbanded as symbol of ‘disparate treatment of people of color’
- Blaming TV cop shows
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Witness reported friend was pistol-whipped before being shot to death in southeast Houston
- Police: Man Arrested in Florida for Shooting 8 at San Antonio Bar
- Video: Suspects Doused Houston Bar With Liquid Before Blast
- DPS Seeks Information in 1995 Slaying of Beloved Beaumont Teacher
- Wichita Falls PD: ‘Unwise’ to compare Taser incident with white man to Rayshard Brooks case
- Abilene man indicted for trying to solicit sex from 16-year-old boy
- Abilene man indicted for robbery, accused of dragging Facebook Marketplace seller with his car
- Early tattoo shop owner arrested for sexual assault
- Abilene man arrested on child porn charges, 3 others for meth
- DPS trooper suffers minor injuries in Thursday morning crash DPS trooper suffers minor injuries in Thursday morning crash
- Shooting near Odessa’s Ratliff Stadium sends two men to the hospital
- Police arrest father of Frankie Gonzales, Waco boy found dead in dumpster
- Pursuit through Big Spring ends in arrest
- 3 Hale Center teens arrested for robberies in Plainview
- Chase leads to barricaded suspect in Central Lubbock
- Lubbock Police respond to incident, serious injuries
- Littlefield man killed with ‘axe-like-weapon’ while sleeping VIDEO
- Arrest in Bexar County Ponzi Scheme
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- Local government
- As Dallas City Council Talks Spending, Will the People Get a Tax Hike?
- Dallas raises official city homosexuality Pride flag
- Austin City Council Proposes Massive Tax Increase, While Over 100K Are Out of Work
- Austin City Manager to eliminate 100 Austin police positions, delay cadet class
- Austin police shootings lay bare lack of de-escalation tactics, oversight office says
- VIA, San Antonio Mayor Clash Over November Vote on Sales Tax Reallocation
- San Antonio Councilman Asks Colleagues to Remove Columbus Statue, Rename Park
- San Antonio might cut $109 million in spending over next two years as local economy recovers – I wonder how much are simply planned increases
- Taylor County Jail faces overcrowding as Texas prisons remain closed to new inmates amid pandemic VIDEO
- City of Abilene welcomes Julee Hatton, Abilene’s first Library Director
- Sweetwater looking for new police chief
- Dawson County stalls on jail decision
- Police Chief Floyd Mitchell on Lubbock’s Police-Citizen Relations
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- Colleges & universities
- The Eyes of Texas are watching how UT handles troubling traditions – no just the Leftist agitators are
- Texas Tech Mourns Loss Of Professor And Former Mechanical Engineering Chairman Oliver McGee
- Texas A&M students share stories of campus discrimination – bet there will be no press outcry of campus discrimination against conservative students by liberal faculty.
Pratt’s post for 6/18/2020
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