- Lawmaker: At least 38 local government in Texas have attempted to raise property taxes above state cap
- While popular, Abbott move for state to “police” Austin a terrible and costly idea
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown
- LBB Latest: State agencies likely to dodge additional cuts despite significant economic downturn
- Texas applies for extra $300-a-week federal jobless benefit, more, more
- Jobless Texans could soon see extra $400 in unemployment benefits
- TWC confirms at least 3,500 cases of identity theft in unemployment benefit system this year
- Report: Only 1 in 5 of the 143 largest public pension plans is resilient: California, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas and Pennsylvania account for more than half of the unfunded liability.
- Texas’ Obamacare Challenge SCOTUS Date Set for After Election
- Texas appeals court rejects ‘Save Chick-fil-a’ lawsuit, hands San Antonio a victory
- Texas Republicans quietly ended public hearings for redistricting. [Leftist] Advocacy groups are demanding change.
- Abbott Names Chair And Appoints Three To Texas Board of Respiratory Care
- Public Safety Commission Approves Two Promotions for Assistant Chiefs at Department of Public Safety
- Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces Low Interest Rate, High Demand for Texas Short-Term Notes
- Despite Case Dismissal, Pardo Family Placed on Child Abuse Registry
- Is the Fifth Circuit Too Conservative Even for the Current Supreme Court? – odd question given that the Supreme Court is not very conservative.
- Legislative Study Group urges leaders in Washington to ensure a complete census, delay deadline until April 2021
- Lawsuit Filed Over Abbott’s Extension of Early Voting
- In Texas, USPS woes and state deadlines could leave voters without enough time to return mail-in ballots
- Bexar County Probing Legally Questionable Election Practices
- Harris County GOP precinct chairs select Stan Stanart as nominee for County Clerk
- TX7: Lizzie Fletcher launches first TV ads in Houston congressional race
- TX21: TV Ad Targets Wendy Davis’ “Selfish” Use of Campaign Expenses VIDEO
- Can Texas flip? Beto O’Rourke, Stacey Abrams, Julián Castro, MJ Hegar to talk running in South – it’s like listening to someone who had a tiny breakfast place that made a little money tell you how to manage a national steakhouse chain.
- SD30: Special Election for Pat Fallon’s Senate Seat Undetermined As Potential Candidates Express Interest
- Texas Democrats are successfully suing to kick Green Party candidates off the November ballot – note how they howl suppression when Republicans use rules to to do similar to them.
- Appeals court blocks three Green Party candidates from 2020 ballot
- What Trump’s save-the-suburbs pledge means in Texas’ ‘only political battleground’
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Postal worker: San Antonio post office hid backlogged mail from congressman – we separated the Post Office from political control exactly to stop this type of political micro-management of the money-losing operation.
- USPS releases new ‘Thank You’ stamp designed by Houston artist – very nice
- Editorial: Trump is doing nothing to prevent another Beirut in Texas. We want to know why. – typical and a state issue more than federal
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn, Rubio, Scott Introduce Resolution Commending SpaceX and NASA’s Successful Mission to the International Space Station
- Sen. Cruz Applauds President Trump’s Move to Invoke Snapback Sanctions and Maintain Arms Embargo on Iran
- Former FBI lawyer pleads guilty to falsifying email in Carter Page surveillance application
- AG William Barr announces nearly 1,500 arrests made under ‘Operation Legend’ in big Democrat run cities
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden/Clinton vs. Trump: Comparing 2020/2016 Polling ‘Gaps’
- Trump Accomplishments List: President Provides Six-Page Document Detailing Successes of Administration
- President Trump Promotes V-Shaped Economic Recovery During Coronavirus Pandemic
- DNC Committee Omits ‘Under God’ From The Pledge Of Allegiance
- For the Democrats’ sake, I hope the DNC viewership is low
- All pageantry, no progress: Wednesday night at the DNC
- Biden Goes Global: ‘Build Back Better’ Plan Modeled After United Nations Disaster Relief Program
- Biden will have to do more than win debates to defeat Trump
- Did the DNC miss an opportunity to spotlight Hispanic Texans? – or – DNC Convention Smartly Highlights Texas Latinas
- Why Weren’t Beto And Julián Featured At The DNC? – they are relative no-bodies, why can’t Texas Dems figure this out?
- Kamala Harris’s Misleads With Claim Pandemic ‘Worse in U.S. than Other Advanced Nations’
- Harris makes history as first woman of color to accept a major party nomination for vice president
- Democrats Showcase Illegal Immigrant: ‘I Need Health Insurance. I Deserve it, Right?’ VIDEO
- Scandalous Hunter Biden to Speak at Final Night of DNC
- Elizabeth Warren an afterthought at the DNC but she did make it onto a Native American panel – ha!
- Opinion: I’m a gun totin’ Texas Republican, and I’m voting for Biden to preserve the Union – takes very little to see what fraud this person is.
- ‘Republicans’ at the DNC
- Sen. Cruz in the Daily Caller: ‘Will Democrats Defend The Police? I Wouldn’t Count On It’
- Fact-shaming Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech
- Michelle Obama, America’s Most Pampered Princess
- McEnany: If Goodyear Permits Black Lives Matter, They Should Allow Blue Lives Matter Too – exactly
- PolitiFact, again, makes a fool of itself in Goodyear Tires matter by not recognizing that BLM & LGBT are equally political expressions
- Teacher sues Virginia school district after being fired for refusing to use transgender pronouns
- The GOP Should Shun Laura Loomer
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- Border / immigration
- Border wall: Hundreds of miles funded, 5 new miles built
- El Paso airport bust leads border agents to stash house holding 32 migrants
- Teen Tried to Smuggle 158 Pounds of Liquid Meth into Texas, Say Feds
- Steve Bannon, ‘We Build The Wall’ Leaders Arrested for Alleged Fraud
- Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon arrested for defrauding ‘Build The Wall’ donors
- Shootout between Mexican soldiers and cartel members leave 9 dead in Tamaulipas
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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 8/20/2020 (pdf) – 10,559* 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 – a moderate to mild flu year. The # viral tested in Texas is now ? – not posted on 8/20.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read.
- Texas positivity rate, Abbott’s key metric in fight against COVID, proven to be unreliable
- Collin County Slams State’s Bad Coronavirus Data – Judge Chris Hill says the county is “100 percent certain” the numbers reported by Texas DSHS are not accurate.
- Texas 2019-2020 flu fatalities through 8/14 report: 10,053 (32.92 per 100K) – clearly lockdowns and the other “decrees” do NOT work to stop viral spread.
- Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Never has a virus been so oversold
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Has Sweden been vindicated?, More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else
- How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Depends Which One You Mean
- Could mass testing for COVID-19 do more harm than good? – a must read
- After Criticizing Hydroxychloroquine Use, Texas Medical Board Says Doctors Free to Use Drug – and this isn’t the outside TMA but Abbott’s appointed board that polices physicians! They were as Leftwing political as others.
- How a state senator is pushing an unproven coronavirus cure – more media hit on those who do not carry their fear line.
- Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown
- Kamala Harris’s Misleads With Claim Pandemic ‘Worse in U.S. than Other Advanced Nations’
- Texas COVID-19 Hospitalizations Fall Below 6,000 – and we have over 58,000 staffed hospital beds, this threat to the “system” has mostly been grossly overstated.
- Coronavirus live updates: Opioid overdoses up 30 percent during pandemic
- Mom attributes COVID-19 isolation to young man’s death from extremely rare disease
- Coronavirus’ mental health toll will only get worse.
- COVID & masks
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Wearing face masks more than doubled Texas COVID-19 fatality rate! (But wait there’s more…)
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- 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
- Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles with their mask
- More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19
- Face masks are ‘NOT necessary’ and could even harm the fight against coronavirus, say Holland’s top scientists
- Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political – exactly as I have written and spoken about. See: More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Oxford: Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles
- Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
- Joe Biden Calls for National Outdoor Mask Mandate, Regardless of Age
- Young Children Pose a Dilemma for Airlines With Mask Rules – airlines, due to dumb customers, are being as stupid as Biden on masks.
- Coronavirus causing big conflicts at work over masks, cleaning and more
- 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; Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- 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
- Texas announces new way to track WuFlu in schools – daily reporting
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- Business
- Avalanche-Journal commits to staff diversity – they’ll all be without a job is they don’t commit to people who can write stories accurately using the English language and who actually know enough to ask the right questions to make stories relevant. Instead they are focused on “diversity” which naturally exists.
- American Airlines Will Drop Flights to 15 Cities in October
- Exploding Coke, English cucumbers in recent lawsuits naming H-E-B
- As the Texas restaurant industry struggles, so do farmers, truckers and others in the food supply chain
- Businesses pivot to plastic barriers – interesting read
- Texas oil and gas companies brace for drilling restrictions if Joe Biden wins
- As Sears fades from Houston’s memory, new retailers rise in its place
- USAA donation to aid military families largest in 100-year history – while facing increasing criticism for not paying claims or treating customers well
- Tellurian to defer construction of Permian Global Access pipeline
- Kairos Aerospace completes survey of 62,000 wells, 25,000 miles of pipelines
- Laredo to begin completions on 15 wells in Howard County in 2020Q4
- With Tesla moving next door, Bastrop looks to appeal to auto industry
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- ‘Spirit of the Confederacy’ statue finds new home in Houston’s African American museum
- Elected Waller County constable says he was racially profiled in traffic stop – read this fully and this guy’s claims do not stack up.
- Democrat run Portland’s 84th night of Antifa chaos
- ‘Fort Lori’: The Magnificent Mile was looted but there’ll be no protests on the Chicago mayor’s block
- Black Lives Matter Protests ‘Contributed’ to a 38 Per Cent Rise in Attacks on London Police
- McKinney Mayor Fuller, councilman Shemwell find common ground, condemn continued aggressive protests
- Facebook cracking down on Antifa, removes nearly 1,000 affiliated groups
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- No jail time for senior Air Force NCO convicted in sex case after San Antonio trial
- Comal County deputy shot while serving felony warrant in Spring Branch
- Firefighters Contain Large Blaze at Dallas-Area Factory
- Padre Island National Seashore to Reopen After Hanna Repairs
- Man charged with assaulting another man with hammer in Odessa
- Midland Police investigating stabbing near Dollar General The scene is still active and little information is available at this time.
- Victim in Big Spring hit and run dies, driver’s charges upgraded to manslaughter
- Odessa Police looking for hit and run suspect at Music City Mall
- Vernon Police need help finding missing teen
- Levelland Police Department looking for missing person
- Woman faces multiple charges after allegedly interfering with ongoing pursuit
- WFPD: Man breaks into dead woman’s home, steals dolls, stuffed animals, pictures, Bible
- Man arrested for flooding motel rooms in Wichita Falls
- An argument over cigarette lands one in jail
- Bike cop arrests Wichita Falls businessman in nation’s capital
- Dallas man facing evading charge after police say he lead them on chase, drove at pedestrians in yard
- Callahan Co. man gets two life sentences after pleading guilty to killing wife, 10-month-old child
- Suspects possibly behind string of burglaries in Taylor County arrested after chase
- Man shot in Sweetwater Tuesday night, no arrests made
- 12 Brown County men arrested for child sex crime
- Man left by brother in Abilene arrested for being drunk
- Hobbs man nabbed in undercover sting by Lubbock Police, accused of seeking sexual contact with 16-year-old
- Plainview apartments hit with fire Wednesday
- Gun Seizures Rising at Texas Airports Despite Fewer Travelers – gotta carry in case you face a Leftist riot at the airport!
- UTV missing in Central Texas, heifers missing in West Texas
- Tropical Depression 14 could be headed toward Texas
- Mother of man accused of shooting Cedar Park officers had reported mental health issues, lawyer says
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- Local government
- At least 38 local government in Texas have attempted to raise property taxes above state cap
- Texas appeals court rejects ‘Save Chick-fil-a’ lawsuit, hands San Antonio a victory, more
- This is not the time for the SAWS board to maintain the status quo
- ‘Fire everybody and start over’ — Sheryl Sculley looks back on 14 years as San Antoino city manager
- Racism is officially a public health crisis in San Antonio
- Midland PD to unveil Nathan Heidelberg Memorial Highway sign
- Judge sides with Midland county judge in DA’s lawsuit – another example of how the judiciary is helping erode accountability and the rule of law.
- Harris County commission upholds firing of ex-deputy involved in chokehold death near Denny’s
- Bexar County Probing Legally Questionable Election Practices
- Carroll ISD Board President: Board Previously Approved Parts of “Socialist” Plan
- Leon Valley council agrees to mediation to heal division
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- Colleges & universities
- Sullivan: Is Aggieland Tilting Left? – Yes.
- A&M research to examine mysteries of armyworms
- MSU Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA program receives accreditation
- MSU biology prof. earns two grants to explore wildlife on two historic fort locations
- HSU: Dr. Patrick Miller Extends IASC in Brazil and India
- TTU: Changes Visible in Academics, Campus Life and More as Students Return to Campus
- Texas Tech president says women’s basketball program, AD Kirby Hocutt to be reviewed by university
- UT-Austin students and employees urge officials to stop in-person classes, lower tuition and offer hazard pay – wimps and babies
Pratt’s post for 8/20/2020
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