- Disgraced lameduck Speaker Bonnen Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Hike Staff Salaries as High as $280K
- “No New Revenue Rate” doesn’t mean what some would have you to think
- Tax-break program to cost Texas $1 billion a year by 2022. Tesla soon will be a beneficiary
- Williamson County Requests Help from State Troopers After Austin Defunds Police
- Governor Abbott Holds Briefing, Press Conference On Hurricane Marco And Tropical Storm Laura, Requests Federal Emergency Declaration
- Abbott Announces FEMA Approval For Federal Emergency Declaration Ahead Of Tropical Storm Laura, Marco Landfall
- Governor Abbott Mobilizes Texas National Guard In Response To Tropical Storms Marco, Laura – see other stories under the general news section
- Chief Judge David Jones: The Man Who Saved the Texas Bankruptcy Practice
- Texas Rangers Promote First Women to Rank of Captain
- Parole Is A Dismal Failure In Protecting The Public From Felons
- Governor Abbott Appoints Robertson To 385th Judicial District Court
- Governor Abbott Appoints Browning To Fifth Court of Appeals
- Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge sworn in as president of Texas Police Chief’s Association – makes you question the integrity of the TPCA.
- Austin’s police cuts give Texas Republicans new campaign material
- Texas and Harris County Republicans, Let the Dust Settle and Move Forward
- Conservatives, GOP candidates sue to block early voting extension
- Gov. Greg Abbott sets Sept. 29 special election to replace state Sen. Pat Fallon
- SD30: Special Election for Sen. Pat Fallon’s Seat Scheduled for September 29
- SD30: State Rep. Drew Springer to Run for State Senate
- SD30: Salon owner Shelley Luther announces run for Texas Senate seat, more
- Governor Abbott Sets Emergency Special Election For Texas Senate District 30
- TX23: Tony Gonzalez wins GOP runoff for Rep. Will Hurd’s seat following recount
- 7 in 10 Texas voters would prefer candidates who support the oil and gas industry, poll finds
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- A&M Professor, NASA Researcher Accused of Concealing China Ties
- Democrat Who Survived Vote-by-Mail Disaster Chairs USPS Hearing
- Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19
- Sen. Cruz, Who Led Fight to Shred Catastrophic Obama-Biden Iran Nuclear Deal, Praises Administration’s Move to Invoke Snapback Mechanism
- U.S. Reps. Will Hurd, Michael McCaul break from Republicans and vote for USPS rescue bill
- Valley congressman vote to pump $25 billion into US Postal Service
- ‘Neither rain nor heat’ kept these demonstrators from post office rally in San Antonio – it’s interesting who these folk are.
- House Republicans question whether Amazon charity is discriminating against conservative nonprofits
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- Presidential race / national politics
- China disappears at the DNC; The country that caused the COVID outbreak got just one mention
- Barack Obama: Joe Biden Goals ‘Not that Different’ from Bernie Sanders
- Biden says he’d shut down economy if scientists recommended – classic progressivism, ruled by unaccountable “experts”
- Former Dallas mayor, Steve Bartlett, among 27 Republicans supporting Biden, more – no surprise there
- GOP chooses to boldly stand for nothing – I guess they were lying when saying the GOP stands for racism, etc.
- Biden/Harris: Never mind all that stuff we said during the primary
- Biden Is Promising to “Fair Share” Your Small Business Into the Dust
- White Nationalist Leader Richard Spencer Endorses Joe Biden
- Why isn’t Joe Biden being tested for COVID-19?
- Trump’s job approval rating jumps 5 percentage points, ahead of GOP convention
- Donald Trump, Joe Biden will be scarce in Texas, but down-ballot races attract national bucks
- Why Donald Trump is confident he’ll carry Texas again
- Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick applauds Trump for heeding suburban women’s fears about crime, low-income housing
- Patrick: Texans’ low profile at GOP convention a sign of confidence – agreed, you don’t give much time to states you expect to win.
- Who will speak at the Republican National Convention and how to watch
- Twitter says Trump tweet violates rules on civic and election integrity
- The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots
- George W. Bush’s absence from RNC shows again how GOP has changed under Trump
- Melania Trump called ‘trashy, evil’ foreigner by ex-NYT writer
- Who on earth would hope for the abolition of America?
- NRA PAC fundraising is taking a hit
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Agents Seize Drugs, Cash in South Texas
- Texas Traffic Stop Leads to Human Smuggling Stash House Bust
- Mexican Cartel Gunmen Remove Rival’s Heart, Eat It VIDEO – an example of the stupidity of the Left’s cultural relativism.
- Cartel-Linked Family Protests In-Custody Death of Blogger Relative in Mexican Border City
- Woman dies in line at border crossing as CBP aims to discourage non-essential travel
- In an investigation tied to private border wall, federal prosecutors have Steve Bannon’s nonprofit in their sights
- CDN: An uptick in violence in Piedras Negras and Northern Coahuila
- TBC: Trump proposal for border bridge crossings is unconstitutional
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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 8/24/2020 (pdf) – 11,266* 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 4,668,028.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read.
- 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. Collin County Pushes for Fix as State Agency Admits ‘Significantly’ Overstating Coronavirus Cases
- Texas positivity rate, Abbott’s key metric in fight against COVID, proven to be unreliable
- 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.
- Houston pastor Stella Immanuel tweets Texas Medical Board is investigating her – typical
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown
- Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Emails Show Businesses Held Sway Over State Reopening Plans – as they should, it was business that was shutdown by gov’t edict.
- 57 percent of Republicans say coronavirus death toll is ‘acceptable’ – this is a matter of wording and worldview. It’s acceptable in that we can’t do anything about it; seeing the world as it is as opposed to how we wish it as libs do.
- Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19
- Only 12 Texas nursing homes approved to restart family visits
- Bexar County’s coronavirus hospitalizations lowest since late June
- Do We Want State Authorities Making a Coronavirus Vaccine Legally Mandatory?
- 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…)
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- 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
- 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
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- 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
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
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- Business
- The Texas economy is booming, leaving big rigs in a bind for places to park
- Blue Origin having serious problems with BE-4 rocket engine
- Blue Origin-led partnership delivers lunar lander mockup to NASA
- Many Predicted the Dollar’s Demise. Coronavirus Proved Them Wrong. VIDEO
- College Town Economies Brace for Covid Blow
- Texan Botanicas and Healers’ Business Boom During Pandemic
- Barron Petroleum announces discovery of new oil and gas reserves
- Oil rises with dual storms shutting U.S. Gulf Coast production
- Oil experts say rig gain a “silver lining” for year of downturn
- Shiner to launch hard seltzer
- Owner: Restaurant caught in ‘fakebook wildfire’
- AT&T’s 5G network is inconsistent, but shows promise – the lesson is that 5G has been way overhyped to date.
- Tomlinson: Texas retailers must upgrade to survive the coronavirus – he misses the point that many of us are not entering stores because of the mask and other rules.
- Arena Energy files for bankruptcy as latest downturn casualty
- Gerald D. Hines, developer who shaped Houston’s skyline, dies at 95
- San Antonio’s Zachry Group sued over management of 401(k) plan
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots
- Video shows police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting Black man in back VIDEO
- Violence Flares in Kenosha After Video Shows Police Shooting Black Man VIDEO
- Kenosha Police Involved In Jacob Blake Shooting Weren’t Wearing Body Cameras
- Shaun King: ‘I’m Not Going to Call for Peace’ in Kenosha
- 88 Nights of Destruction: Rioters Set Portland Police Station Ablaze
- Pastor Calls for Reparations: Free College for Black Students – pastor of what? Greed and envy?
- Jemele Hill Compares America to Nazi Germany – who?
- Black Lives Matter Group rally together for change in Wichita Falls VIDEO
- Union Pacific plans to investigate QAnon-linked vandalism to ‘Be Someone’ bridge – the Leftist message was OK with media
- Wylie ISD Pulls Assignment Comparing Cops to Klan After Backlash from Parents and Police
- Abbott Wants Teacher Fired Over Cartoon Comparing Police to KKK
- ‘Give Em Hell’ riot at Denver PD calls to establish ‘peace force’ and ‘abolish police’
- Confederate statues don’t preserve history; they distort it. Dan Patrick should stop defending them. – how can something this is history “distort” history?
- Looters steal firefighter’s wallet as he battles historic California wildfires, official
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Houston still in path of Tropical Storm Laura as Marco takes aim at Lousiana
- Port Arthur Mayor Issues Evacuation Order Before Laura Hits
- Marco Collapses, Sets Stage for Laura to Hit US as Hurricane
- Tropical Storm Laura, expected to become hurricane, could cause ‘widespread’ flooding in Texas
- Forest Service provides update on the 8889 Fire in Ward County
- RivieraParkFire in Potter County is 3,148 acres and 100% contained VIDEO
- 3 Years After Harvey, Some in Houston Still Waiting for Help – why people should stop trusting government with most important matters.
- Police Believe Body Found in Bayou Is Missing Houston Girl
- Search ends for 2 still missing after Texas port explosion
- Bodies Found of Remaining 2 Missing in Texas Port Explosion
- Man charged with sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl
- DPS arrest, charge two men with online solicitation of a minor
- Police: Coke and smoke lead to domestic fight
- Wichita Co: Man accused of killing teen apprehended
- Juvenile jailed for distributing child pornography
- Iowa Park animal hoarder caught with dog in backpack
- Another Archer Co. VFD former official charged with embezzlement
- Ex-Dallas cop admits surfing child porn on police computers
- Army: Soldier missing from Fort Hood reported sexual abuse
- Colorado City AMBER Alert suspect held on $72,000 bond
- Lubbock man wanted by Lubbock Police and U.S. Marshals
- Lubbock woman pleads not guilty to distributing and producing child pornography
- Lubbock man pleads not guilty to possessing prepubescent child pornography
- Man found dead in ditch near Spring
- Lake Travis Middle School virtual lesson disrupted by explicit video, racial slurs
- Cooper ranks the poorest of Texas towns, study finds
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- Local government
- Democrats’ Destructive Decisions Spark Austinites to Take Back City Government
- Williamson County Requests Help from State Troopers After Austin Defunds Police
- Leander approves ban on camping in public areas
- “No New Revenue Rate” doesn’t mean what some would have you to think
- Midland County Commissioners propose no-new-revenue tax rate
- Avg. Lubbock citizen to pay more under city, county proposed tax rates
- Riddick’s era as Midland ISD superintendent appears to be in jeopardy, more – good
- Meeting on Lake Ringgold water use permit Tuesday online
- Bowie City Council to adopt tax rate, budget
- Abilene air fire station funds, service on tap at council
- Dallas Council Member Says Only 4 Police Officers Have Credibility Issues
- Wylie ISD Pulls Assignment Comparing Cops to Klan After Backlash from Parents and Police
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas students said pandemic-era tuition should be cut. But it’s going up at some schools due to distance learning fees.
- A&M Professor, NASA Researcher Accused of Concealing China Ties
- Odessa College board to tackle tax rate
- MSU: Styles steps down as head cross country and track coach
- Abilene Christian University to break ground on new residence hall
- ACU engineering grad returns to alma mater to work on molten salt project
- TTU vet school deans recall milestones, discuss next steps
- TTU Researchers Contribute To Broader Understanding Of Committed Relationships
- A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. This UT-Austsin grad student from Maine solved it in days
- Summer enrollment increases at Houston colleges ahead of an unpredictable fall
Pratt’s post for 8/24/2020
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