- State Senator Nichols warns against tax hikes
- Attention: You cannot count on press to warn you of local property tax increases
- Greg Abbott’s drift from conservatism easy to track, appears he’s betting on a Trump loss
- Abbott’s pivot from conservatism a gamble motivated by ambition AUDIO
- Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion
- Abbott Appoints Three To Texas Emergency Services Retirement System Board Of Trustees
- Abbott Waives Certain Trucking Regulations To Expedite Hurricane Hanna Recovery In The Rio Grande Valley, Coastal Bend
- AG Paxton Warns Texans of Price Gouging in Wake of Hurricane Hanna – B.S. the market, supply and demand and voluntary transactions, sets proper prices.
- What defunding the police in Texas could look like
- Texas DPS network outage added to delays for drivers seeking licenses in July, agency admits
- Abbott Sides With Democrats, Extends Early Voting in Upcoming November Election
- Commentary: Time for Texas Parents to Take Back Public Schools From the Radical Left
- Analysis: Opinion: Funding for rural broadband in Texas is in trouble. The pandemic might save it.
- Log Cabin Republican Get Out Spoken
- Sue Melton-Malone, SBOE Dist. 14, Talks Education and the Family
- Brandon Waltens chats with Texan Martin Holsome who has announced he will run as a Republican in 2022 for Texas Governor. AUDIO
- Beto O’Rourke, Texas Democrats Launch Ambitious Black Voter Outreach Effort
- Texan journalists start The 19th, a new publication empowering women – another Leftwing propaganda effort. Wait, didn’t thy announce this way back last year?
- Dallas-area GOP congressional candidates Genevieve Collins, Beth Van Duyne greet Trump in Midland
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Who Will Fund $24 Trillion in New Government Debt?
- Republican senators revolt over coronavirus proposal
- Sen. Cornyn introduces health coverage bill for laid off, furloughed Texans
- Rep. Gohmert Tests Positive for Virus, Cancels Trump Trip
- Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert confirms positive coronavirus test, blames mask
- Congressman Gohmert tests positive for coronavirus
- Texas prosecutor John Bash to probe Flynn case
- HUD revokes Obama-era rule designed to diversify the suburbs
- The bewildering bombardment of Bill Barr
- Jim Jordan Asks Bill Barr 5 Questions About Protests That Prove They’re Anything But ‘Peaceful’
- The Must-See Moments From Bill Barr’s Fiery Congressional Testimony
- Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill to Block Federal Funding for Governments Engaged in Religious Discrimination
- Sub-committee ranking member says he doesn’t think antitrust laws need to change VIDEO
- Debunking the TikTok Competition Canard
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- Presidential race / national politics
- President Trump arrives in Midland/Odessa, more VIDEO
- President Trump arrives in Midland
- Reporter’s Notebook: Trump’s visit to Midland
- In West Texas, Trump touts energy policy, scoops up $7M from donors, and tries to tamp down Biden surge
- Trump Seeks Out Loyal Donors in West Texas Fracking Fields
- Watch: Trump delivers remarks at Double Eagle Energy rig
- Supporters line up to catch glimpse of Air Force One
- Sen. Ted Cruz: Standing with Trump in support of Texas energy producers
- Biden is not the president America needs
- Biden’s notes: ‘Do not hold grudges’ against Kamala Harris
- Biden unveils economic plans based on race and gender
- Biden ‘Racial Equity Plan’ would enrich wealthy lawyers at employers’ expense
- Biden vs. Small Business
- Democrats: Abandoning Blue-Collar Workers
- 100 Police Departments Refuse to Protect Democrats’ Convention Because of Protest Policies
- Sen. Cruz: Democrats Have Cynically Decided It’s Politically Convenient to Bow to the Violent Mob and Keep America Shut Down VIDEO
- Edmund Burke on the market and the limits of commerce
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- Border / immigration
- Feds Seize $500K in Two Incidents at Texas Border Crossings
- 37 Migrants Found Packed in Livestock Trailer in Texas 50 Miles from Border
- Gulf Cartel Holds Father of Former Mexican Border City Mayor for Ransom
- Texas Civil Rights Project halts extrajudicial expulsion of child asylum seekers
- Mexico Owes The United States Billions Of Gallons Of Water. And It’s Not The First Time. – that’s not as much as it seems and this goes back and forth every few years.
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- Coronavirus related (while I hold over some stories for a while this is not a collection that grows each day. You must go to previous days’ posts.)
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/29/2020 (pdf) – 5,877* deaths. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season P&I deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,095 for the annual season. The # viral tested in Texas is now 3,476,926.
- * Texas’ count of coronavirus deaths jumps 12% after officials change the way they tally COVID-19 fatalities – more evidence of unreliable numbers
- Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Individual Liberty in a Pandemic: Government’s Power to Restrict Your Freedoms in a Crisis
- Texas bar owners suing Abbott over booze ban: ‘Bar Lives Matter’
- Facts About COVID-19, CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Shutdowns Are Not a Serious Solution to the Coronavirus Threat
- Unemployment in Costa Rica reaches 20.1%, the highest in its history, in midst of pandemic – the cost of ill-advised “shutdowns”
- Pandemic tensions revive protests in Latin America
- Time is Running Out for Coronavirus Course Correction
- Country-by-country data on mortality risk of the COVID-19 pandemic
- A Phony “Pandemic” of Stats and Symbolism
- Texas biotech facility in College Station tapped to mass-produce potential COVID-19 vaccine
- Houston Coronavirus Hospitalizations Trending Downward
- America’s Frontline Doctors SCOTUS Press Conference Transcript
- Flat Earther Busted for Coronavirus Conspiracy Graffiti in Texas
- COVID-19: Bad policy rules!
- Months into pandemic, Texas reveals ravages of COVID-19 nursing home infections – this was easy to forsee. See: Health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Coronavirus cases in Texas nursing homes more than doubled in July. Families say the state still isn’t testing enough.
- Abilene mayor tests positive for COVID-19 – asymptomatic
- Abilene ISD admits mistake by not following COVID safety precautions at administrators retreat
- Report: UT has had more COVID-19 cases than any other university in US – so?
- Abbott: Every healthcare need of every person in RGV is going to be met
- Girl power does not stop the spread of COVID – typical
- Doctors With Coronavirus Treatment Face Orwellian Suppression
- Houston’s paramedics told to assume everyone has COVID-19
- Hydroxychloroquine Dispensing Restrictions Expire, More Doctors Advocate for Its Use as Coronavirus Treatment
- Plano Teen Helps Develop Technology Aimed At Speeding Up Detection, Treatment For COVID-19 Patients
- COVID & masks
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- How much do face masks actually help?
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Sen. Bob Hall Criticizes Abbott’s Face Mask Order Shift: ‘We Are Expected to Live As If We Have a Monarchy’
- Some “experts” claim we need to wear masks “for several years.”
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Republican activist sues Gov. Abbott, challenging mask order
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Woman takes Lefty talking points about how ‘it’s just a mask’ apart
- SRI finds ‘counterfeit’ masks among hospital supplies of coronavirus gear
- In an age of science, why are face masks a matter of opinion?
- Hotze Calls Out Ken Paxton for Siding With Democrat Mayor in Mask Mandate Lawsuit
- The face mask hypocrisy of Lubbock’s Mayor Pope VIDEO
- Denton City Council Extends Face Coverings Order Through August For Essential Businesses
- COVID & schools
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Dr. Scott Atlas: There Is No Risk To Children From Covid-19, I Don’t Know Why People Deny This. AUDIO
- Dr. Scott Atlas: Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- Virus Spread, Not Politics Should Guide Schools, Doctors Say
- UIL announces plan for high school sports
- Amid calls for school shutdowns, U.K. scientist says student-teacher infections ‘incredibly rare’
- CDC to release new resources to support reopening schools
- AG Paxton Issues Legal Guidance on School Reopening
- Attorney General Paxton Says Local Health Authorities May Not Order School Closures, more
- San Antonio School Districts Weigh Legal Action Over State’s Latest Reopening Rules
- Cornerstone Church sues San Antonio, county, Metro Health as it seeks to reopen its schools
- Texas faculty group urges governor to delay in-person classes at state universities until Sept. 8 – go to work
- Tarrant Co. Judge to Parents: No Transparency, Closed-Door Meetings Will Continue
- Conservative think tank leader says schools should reopen since most Texans dying from COVID-19 are elderly or Hispanic – what a nasty way to headline this piece, designed to impugn Vance for making a rational argument.
- Marble Falls ISD superintendent asks parents capable of choosing remote instruction to do so initially
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- Business
- Texas Ranked Best Business Climate In America By Business Facilities Magazine
- Bank of San Antonio reports a $13.2 million ‘Ponzi-style fraud’
- Skywriter MD adding more than 100 jobs, investing $400,000 in Downtown Lubbock
- Gun sales up 50 percent for some Lubbock vendors – great, go to LSG
- Chiefs QB Mahomes II becomes part-owner of MLB’s Kansas City Royals
- Survey: Edinburg one of fastest-growing midsized cities in US
- ‘I try not to think about it’: Bars, Restaurants Brace for Novel College Football Season, or None At All
- Chevron acquires Noble Energy, including 92,000 acres in Permian Basin
- Carolyn Betts moves her tech recruiting business to Austin from San Francisco
- Uptown Dallas’ landmark Crescent is up for sale
- Liberty Mutual Insurance seeks to rent out a big chunk of its Plano offices
- J.C. Penney has three offers to buy it and bring it out of bankruptcy late this year
- Bankruptcy court will try to resolve a fight between Neiman Marcus and its creditors
- Dallas Morning News declines to recognize union; organizers say election is ‘only path forward’ – so the libs don’t want a union at their place!
- American Airlines executive says new strategy helps fix ‘very massive revenue problem’
- Sports Illustrated Publishes #MeToo Allegations About Mavericks Exec
- El Paso Electric’s $4.3 billion sale completed
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- What defunding the police in Texas could look like
- Police, Gohmert react to violent protests in Tyler
- Buffalo Soldiers Museum Vandalized With Hateful Graffiti
- New York police confirm arrest of protester in unmarked van
- County judge starts petition to save Midland Lee HS name
- Crowds gather again to protest, support Confederate statue in Vernon VIDEO
- 100 Police Departments Refuse to Protect Democrats’ Convention Because of Protest Policies
- Sen. Cruz: Democrats Have Cynically Decided It’s Politically Convenient to Bow to the Violent Mob and Keep America Shut Down VIDEO
- Get woke, go broke! NFL to ‘amplify’ social justice with end zone messages
- Unexpectedly, Minneapolis car thefts skyrocket with fewer cops available
- Charter commission to Minneapolis city council: Maybe slooooow down on abolishing the police
- DHS: Federal agents will stay in Portland to protect courthouse, despite what mayor is saying
- Austin Police Association president apologizes for comments about Garrett Foster
- Austin City Council declares racism a public health crisis that is ‘killing Black and Brown people’ – typical of Leftists
- ‘I’ll be on Satan’s lap:’ Sheriff’s deputies searching for suspect(s) in Gatesville church vandalism
- The protests in Weatherford were not as peaceful as others have claimed, according to two victims.
- Austin: Did bad info from 911 call set fatal Ramos shooting in motion?
- Austin Council Members Want to Defund Local Police and Demolish Their Headquarters
- Downtown Austin memorial to slain protester Garrett Foster vandalized – memorial? He pointed a rifle at innocent people in a car legally driving through Austin. A tombstone is about the only memorial the Leftist radical deserves.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man Dies in El Paso After UTEP Campus Police Use Stun Gun on Him
- AG Paxton Congratulates Apprehension Unit on Arrest of Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive
- Houston Man Jailed After Getting Jump on Lobster Miniseason
- Man charged with murder in Odessa
- Man charged with exposing himself to teenage girl
- Man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill girlfriend
- Wichita Falls Police: Man arrested for shooting guns in city
- Man who went to AA meeting then bar sentenced for intoxicated assault, more
- Left-behind license plate leads to arrest
- Abilene police searching for convenience store robbery suspect
- Cash rewards offered for info on wanted fugitives in Abilene
- 1 dead after rollover crash north of Hawley
- Lubbock Woman Sentenced To 20 Years For Tampering With Evidence
- Mysterious seeds showing up in Texas mailboxes, USDA says report them VIDEO
- Accidental juvenile shooting in Howard Co., more
- Nacogdoches police officer helps to save man’s life while he was bleeding from laceration
- Vanessa Guillén inquiry: 35% of women at Fort Hood said they were sexually harassed
- Greenville Police Looking for Driver Involved in Hit-And-Run
- Three Face Murder Charges in Connection to 2017 Plano Cold Case
- Woman Arrested After Deadly Shooting in Cedar Hill
- Copperas Cove firefighter dies from line of duty illness
- Rita Gluzman killed her husband with an ax and a hammer. She was just released from federal prison in Fort Worth
- 65-year-old woman rescued during human trafficking sting at Houston massage parlor; owner arrested
- Man shot, killed convenience store clerk over cash, lottery tickets – and the mandated mask will protect him
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- Local government
- Attention: You cannot count on press to warn you of local property tax increases
- Anderson Co. commissioners say no to busting SB2 property tax protection
- Angelina Co. commissioners use tax reform rule to permit a potential tax rate increase – scum bags
- Angelina Co. commissioners hear residents complaints against sheriff
- Lubbock’s city council OKs first vote to loosen protections for brick streets
- Lubbock Co. Sheriff Kelly Rowe Talks Jails, County Budget, and Homicides
- Panola County courthouse closed after employee tests positive for COVID-19
- Tarrant County Judge to Parents: No Transparency, Closed-Door Meetings Will Continue
- Fort Worth City Council Responds to ‘Back the Blue’ and Pro-America Rally
- VIA Approves Transforming Former Nightclub into New Service Facility
- Austin City Council declares racism a public health crisis that is ‘killing Black and Brown people’ – typical of Leftists
- City of Austin’s reintegration plan delayed — again, city remains under hiring freeze
- Austin Council Members Want to Defund Local Police and Demolish Their Headquarters
- Amid Economic Downturn, Austin Council Moves Forward With Monstrous Tax Hike
- Dallas PD Chief Hall Comments After Grand Jury ‘No Bills’ Police Association Pres Of Tampering In Amber Guyger Case
- El Paso County applies for countywide voting
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tech Foundation Reports Involvement in Data Breach
- MSU Texas’ Area Health Education Center provides PPE for rural clinics and hospitals
- Beloved MSU faculty member dies
- Report: UT has had more COVID-19 cases than any other university in US – so?
- UT Austin asking students to self quarantine 14 days before classes start, considers 25% attendance at football games – yeah, good luck with that.
- UT Tyler fermentation program partners with East Texas wineries, distilleries as industry continues to grow
- UTSA classes will be 95 percent online this fall
- UTSA researcher recognized for pioneering work and global impact
- Texas A&M police investigating theft of university ambulance
- Texas A&M President Michael K. Young says ‘100 new infections a day’ discussed as measure for shutting down in-person classes this fall
- A&M professors analyze Texas’ response to COVID-19
- Texas State faculty urge administrative action on campus return
- TCU called to act on video of admitted student using racial slurs
- Baylor students must test negative for coronavirus before returning to campus this fall, officials say – wasteful use of testing resources and generally ineffective at doing anything given the tens of thousands of daily interactions with others that will happen.
- New University Of Houston Medical School Looks To Tackle Texas’ Primary Care Shortage
Pratt’s post for 7/29/2020
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