- Governor supports making alcohol-to-go sales permanent in Texas
- Texas LGBT [homosexual] Caucus requests statewide change in teacher hiring policies
- Governor Abbott Announces $123.6 Billion Economic Impact Of Military Bases In Texas
- Abbott Appoints Oakley And Wilson To Board of Pilot Commissioners for Harris County Ports
- Two Empower Texans staff members reprimanded after recording reveals them joking about Gov. Greg Abbott’s wheelchair use
- Empower Texans opponents rush to exact revenge over anti-Abbott tirade – but we’ve seen the filth and lies many of them have when caught on mic.
- Senate District 14 Race Heats Up with New Ads, Endorsements
- Anti-choice, oil money pours into GOP race against Rep. Lizzie Fletcher – they mean pro-life money, their “choice” is to murder babies!
- Coronavirus fears postponed a Texas election. Now it will go forward with even greater risk for some voters. – B.S.
- Royce West seeking to capture moment in Texas Democratic Senate runoff against MJ Hegar
- Beto O’Rourke’s PAC shifts to next phase to help Democrats flip Texas House
- HD60: Anti-Conservative Joe Straus’ PAC Backing Glenn Rogers in Runoff Election
- AUDIO: Jon Francis, HD60 GOP runoff candidate, on Pratt on Texas AUDIO
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Cornyn, Cruz reject Democrats’ push to gut qualified immunity for police
- Rep. Arrington: “We can’t hamstring our police”
- Sources: Venezuela Wooed Texas Republican to Ease Sanctions
- Money mischief: Fed’s response to COVID-19
- President Trump Fires Manhattan U.S. Attorney – very much worth a read to understand more fully the claims made and legal position
- Stop Making the Same Mistake With the Supreme Court
- AG Barr says ‘developments’ in Durham investigation may arrive before end of summer
- NSA director says release of Bolton book could cause ‘irreparable damage’
- Top Democrat urges foreigners ‘visiting’ U.S. to respond to 2020 Census as NYC faces undercount
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- Presidential race / national politics
- 3 reasons Donald Trump is confident he’ll carry Texas
- Inside Trump’s Oklahoma debacle – this headline sums up almost all press coverage. In watching, I thought it the opposite and ratings show it was huge reach.
- President Trump Makes Wide-Ranging Speech in Tulsa
- Trump campaign refutes AOC boast that teens sabotaged president’s rally VIDEO
- With ‘kung flu,’ ‘thugs,’ and ‘our heritage,’ Trump leans on racial grievance as he reaches for a campaign reset – everything is a code word, or dog whistle, to Leftists.
- Joe Biden and DNC outraise Trump campaign operation in May
- Biden campaign forms team to begin ‘very early stages of pre-transition planning’
- Pollak: The 2020 Election Is Now About China Pollak: The 2020 Election Is Now About China 8,069
- We are living through a frenzy of conformity
- Here’s some left-wing stuff we can cancel, too
- AOC Praises Teens, Allies for Using Chinese App to Meddle in Election
- Can’t stand free speech? You’re fired!
- Andrew Cuomo just accidentally knocked the teeth out of the Dems’ argument for mail-in voting
- The Silent Majority Can Be Silent No More
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- Border / immigration
- Cornyn, Cruz offer different takes on DACA ruling
- Trump Says He Will Renew Effort to End DACA Protections
- Trump confirms new visa restrictions coming
- Texas companies would feel the impact of a limit on H-1B visas
- CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan: COVID-19 Led to Game Changers on Illegal Immigration
- $2.7 Million in Meth Seized at Texas Border Crossing
- Drug Lord Controlling Mexican Border State Prison Unmasked
- Leaked Documents Reveal Extent of Former Mexican Border Governor’s Corruption, Contract Rigging
- Criminal Illegal Immigrants Released Over COVID-19 Violate House Arrest Orders Often
- DACA Texans are essential to our COVID-19 response and economic future – really?
- In Zapata County, local government is fighting the federal government to stop one piece of the border wall
- Trump celebrates border wall milestone as opponents continue to fight against it
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- Business
- Texas Unemployment Rate 13.0 Percent
- Dallas Fed: Texas added 318,100 jobs in May
- American Airlines is exploring new ways to compensate passengers
- Passengers File Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against American Airlines
- Six Flags Fiesta Texas reopens with plenty of new COVID-19 precautions
- Meat price spikes at H-E-B, other grocers mean big business for San Antonio-area ranchers
- Three SpaceX Starship prototypes in line for testing at Boca Chica
- RRC: Permits drop nearly 30 percent from March to April
- Amazon Building Fulfillment Center in Fort Bend County Without Tax Incentives
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/22/2020 (pdf) – 2,182deaths in Q1 plus almost all 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 1,715,177.
- COVID-19 numbers in Texas justify no more restrictions, none.
- Abbott calls coronavirus increase ‘unacceptable’ but says Texas won’t shut down
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Lawsuit Filed Against Abbott Over Shutdown Orders, Contact Tracing
- Steve Hotze is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott on contact tracing, saying it infringes on privacy.
- Abbott Embraces ‘Patchwork Quilt’ of Regulation He Once Campaigned Against, More Lawmakers Speak Out on Abbott’s Mask Order: ‘Legacy Has Been Ruined’
- Abbott Invites You to Figure Out What His Coronavirus Executive Orders Allow
- 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
- 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’
- Kudlow: ‘There Is no Second Wave Coming’ VIDEO
- How to work out the real COVID death toll: Probably the best way is through antibody tests.
- Here’s what San Antonio doctors have learned about treating COVID-19
- San Antonio has seen a lower rate than many U.S. urban centers – so quit hyping it constantly in the Express-News as if everyone is falling like fall leaves!
- As courts open, a patchwork of eviction policies leave tenants vulnerable
- Texas cracks down on crowded bars as part of undercover COVID-19 operation
- Austin: 3rd Sixth Street bar suspended for defying coronavirus protocols
- Alcohol permits suspended at two Houston-area bars for violating COVID-19 requirements
- TABC Issues 30-Day Alcohol Permit Suspension to Little Woodrow’s in Lubbock
- Texas Federation of Republican Women: Tell Abbott ‘No’ to Face Mask Mandates
- Gov. Abbott advises Texans to wear face masks to stop the surge of COVID-19 cases – poll-driven stupidity
- Hewitt mayor orders commercial entities to require face masks – needs some masked folk to show up at his office.
- Multiple Texas Cities and Counties Adopting Mask Orders
- Mandated mask wearing New Mexico has COVID fatality rate 3 times that of Texas
- Masking the real problem — a deadly virus – but masks do not work against viruses and yet they claim the banner of “science!”
- Texas districts shouldn’t send kids back to school without proper protection against COVID-19 – and that includes masks – more stupidity
- Overcrowding prompts closures of 4 Travis County parks on Lake Travis – yet another example of the non-“science” ridiculousness going on.
- The Pandemic Is Threatening to Close McAllen’s Historic Cine El Rey Forever – no, orders of politicians are
- As coronavirus cases rise, so does Austin-area contingency planning
- 100 days into pandemic, here’s its toll on US lives and livelihoods
- Northwestern Medicine study finds COVID-19 virus strain unique to Chicago
- Cruise Lines Extend COVID-19 Pause on Sailing From the US
- Government health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- China blamed for COVID-19 cover-up
- Coronavirus antibody levels may decline quickly, Chinese study suggests
- FDA warns 9 brands of hand sanitizer may be toxic
- COVID restrictions put others’ health at risk in Lubbock
- Amid threats and political pushback, public health officials are leaving their posts – as Matt Crow puts it: “They brought it on themselves.”
- CDC: Food and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Criminal Illegal Immigrants Released Over COVID-19 Violate House Arrest Orders Often
- Despite COVID surge, Bexar Co. Judge Wolff does not see second lockdown – note Mr. Mask-Requirement’s especially useless mask!
- DACA Texans are essential to our COVID-19 response and economic future – really?
- Tarrant County Jail Reports Less than One Percent Coronavirus Infection Rate
- Survey: COVID-19 Dramatically Impacts Dallas, Houston Jury Pools
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Much of the mob opposes the country, not bad policing
- Self-righteous vandals: The attempt to prettify history is ugly
- Marching against racism is too easy
- Farewell, Uncle Ben
- Time to Listen: Area athletes, coaches speak out about racism, social injustice – why is it “time to listen” to sports people who agree with the Left?
- Don’t defund the police: reform them
- Here’s some left-wing stuff we can cancel, too
- Cancel Culture Is Glorified Cyberbullying, and It Will End in Tragedy
- CNN’s Angela Rye: We Need to ‘Uproot’ U.S.’s Racist Foundation — ‘Going to Make a Lot of People Uncomfortable’
- Teddy Roosevelt equestrian statue to be removed from NYC’s Natural History museum – note that they’ve wanted to do this for some time.
- American Museum of Natural History to remove iconic statue of Teddy Roosevelt, following protests
- MLB’s Texas Rangers face pressure to change name amid scrutiny over symbols, historical figures – more insanity
- San Antonio councilman condemns protecting of the Alamo
- ‘Black Lives Matter’ is more than a rallying cry for the dead
- Protesters Would Tear Down The Washington Monument If They Could
- 102 shot in Chicago over Father’s Day weekend but BLM, Leftists continue to ignore
- What really happened with the first shooting inside CHAZ/CHOP?
- Another shooting in the CHOP. Where is Seattle’s mayor?
- CHOP: Neither police nor EMTs could reach the scene of shooting in Seattle’s No-Go zone
- Brett Favre Sets Tongues Wagging, Claims Colin Kaepernick a ‘Hero’ Like Pat Tillman
- Coalition lists 10 demands to transform Dallas and slow police brutality. How will City Hall respond?
- Greta Thunberg hails Black Lives Matter protests – of course!
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 200 Law Enforcement Agencies Across U.S. Hacked, Sensitive Intel Exposed
- Killeen police confirm body is soldier missing since 2019, foul play suspected
- Fort Hood asks for information in Vanessa Guillen case
- Tip leads to search for Vanessa Guillen near Leon River, officials say
- Crash on Killeen highway leaves woman, 40, girl, 15 dead
- Multiple departments battle fire in Hockley County Sunday afternoon
- First Baptist Church in Aspermont burns down overnight VIDEO
- Woman rescued from home seconds before it collapsed during storm VIDEO
- Texas Woman’s Body Found in Kentucky Lake Identified
- 5 Hurt in Early Morning Shooting in Austin
- DPS: Midland man dies in 2-vehicle wreck
- Midland Co. grand jury indicts Tye Anders on evading arrest charge
- Midland man apprehended following hour-long pursuit
- Police: Woman attacks husband with homemade arsenal
- Former Wichita County probation officer indicted
- Brown Co. grand jury returns nine indictments against trio in home invasion
- Tye man arrested for possession of child pornography
- Police: 2 arrested for firing rifle in north Abilene neighborhood
- Man, mid-late 50’s, found dead in Pecan Bayou; Brown County Sheriff’s Office investigating
- Cisco Fire Department rescues driver stranded in flood waters
- Shots fired at Juneteenth celebration in San Angelo
- Motorcycle Crashes Into Cadillac on East Slaton Highway
- Shoplifting led to attack on two police officers, warrant said, suspect recognized by his own grandmother, more
- Man arrested after firing shotgun in air near Houston police helicopter
- Houston ISD police officer’s gun fires during struggle with road rage suspect
- Father, 4-year-old struck and killed on North Freeway
- Body found floating in White Oak Bayou
- Teen, crew injured when BMW driver crashes into Houston fire engine
- Pickup driver attempting to pass car kills bicyclist in north Harris County, police say
- Feds accuse Austin man of defrauding coronavirus aid program of $2 million
- Prosecutors focus on destruction of ‘Live PD’ video
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- Local government
- Austin delays release of Mike Ramos police footage, citing misstep
- Travis County considering $14.65 million tax break for Tesla
- San Antonio: Arbitrator overrules police chief related to allegations of racism in police
- Montague County appoints new county judge VIDEO
- In Zapata County, local government is fighting the federal government to stop one piece of the border wall
- Coalition lists 10 demands to transform Dallas and slow police brutality. How will City Hall respond?
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- Colleges & universities
- Lapinski is new financial aid director at UTPB
- MSU: Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- For Gardner, MSU a spring board to med school
- HPU to start fall semester on Aug. 24 with extra guidelines
- Wayland Releases Updated Fall Schedule
- TTU Researchers Say Genetics May Determine Wound Infection And Healing
- Texas Tech moving to mobile ticketing for 2020 football season – another spit in the face of traditional customers
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- Military
- Push to purge Confederate names gets minimal traction around Fort Hood, but military is paying attention
- Fort Hood asks for information in Vanessa Guillen case
- Governor Abbott Announces $123.6 Billion Economic Impact Of Military Bases In Texas
Pratt’s post for 6/22/2020
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