- State Pays Unemployed Texans Three Weeks of Extra $300
- AG Paxton: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Awarded $ 20 Million Settlement for Bastrop State Park Restoration
- Enrollment Open for Texas Tuition Promise Fund
- Abbott Given Primer for State Takeover of Austin Police Department
- Dispute over $130 million state cloud data manager contract offers unique window into often opaque and controversial Texas procurement process
- Texas Medical Association, physicians ask again for Medicaid expansion – remember, this is Obamacare expansion. The TMA is lefty and greedy.
- Houston church*, coffee shops challenge state’s ‘no-guns-allowed’ signs – difficult to actually call the Unitarian Universalists a church. Leftists are challenging.
- An Easy Way for States to Save Health Care Dollars
- State Rep Biedermann: Let Texans Carry Guns Without Permits – it is what the plain reading of the 2nd Amendment provides for.
- Texas Dems make bad argument on voting by mail and the 26th Amendment
- In a letter to Texas Supreme Court, H-E-B’s CEO advocates for mail-in voting – I’ve tried to explain time and again that H-E-B is run by a Democrat and uses the firm’s position and money to advance Dem-causes in Texas.
- H-E-B’s Charles Butt sends letter to high court, backing Harris County in debate over mail ballots – he’s advocating to break the law but you better damn sure wear a mask in his stores (even though that’s not a law but a decree from Abbott.)
- Grocery Store Magnate Sides With Democrats in Mail-Ballot Fight
- ACLU of Texas Asks Hundreds of School Districts to End Discriminatory Rules
- Report: Harris County’s bail reforms let more people out of jail before trial without raising risk of reoffending – yeah and tons of criminals who do crimes while out.
- SD30: Springer Talks Special Election, Right To Life, Second Amendment
- TX23: San Antonio congressional candidate used faux Border Patrol agent in TV ads – well his opponent is a lesbian who works in the DC-area not Texas. So what?
- HD134: Planned Parenthood group endorses Republican Sarah Davis, rebuffing activists’ push to support her Dem opponent
- TX24: Dem “news” site calls Republican Beth Van Duyne a bigot
- As O’Rourke helps Leftist Hegar raise money, Cornyn also uses him to stir up donors, warning: ’Beto is back’
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump Considers Defunding Anarchist Cities
- 20 senators ask FDA to remove abortion pill from U.S. market over safety concerns
- Ted Cruz comes under fire for FDA abortion letter calling pregnancy ‘not a life-threatening illness’ – what moron Leftist thinks pregnancy IS an “illness?”
- AG Barr, CNN Blitzer Battle over Mail-in Voter Fraud
- More Barr: Mass mail-in voting is “playing with fire”
- Appeals court rules NSA’s phone metadata collection program was illegal
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- Presidential race / national politics
- ‘He’s the candidate we need’: Trump’s ‘silent majority’ in Houston isn’t backing down
- Rove: Trump Needs to ‘Make an Appeal for a Broader Group of People’ – in practice this Rove stuff has usually meant being more liberal.
- Pennsylvania Poll: Trump Ties Race with Biden in Keystone State
- Biden Is A Prisoner Of His Own Paradoxes
- Biden backs off federal mask mandate, says he would ‘pressure’ state officials instead – flip-flop
- ‘Biden is a mensch’ Kamala’s husband says Jewish community should vote against Trump
- Trump Has Been The Most Friendly President Toward Israel, Obama The Most Hostile
- Nolte: Washington Post Says Election Will End in Violence Unless Biden Wins Landslide – sounds like “dog whistling” to violent Leftists to me!
- Why Won’t Biden Condemn Antifa or BLM Violence?
- Mitt Romney: Trump’s Tweets ‘Intended to Further Inflame Racial Tensions’ – Mitt Romney is a self-righteous liberal like his pro-union, pro-big gov’t and high tax father.
- Cuomo says Trump will need ‘army’ to protect him if he pulls federal funds to crime-plagued cities
- Former Michigan GOP Governor Rick Snyder Endorses Biden
- Ted Cruz Accuses Democrats of Keeping States in Lockdown to Hurt Trump and He’s Right
- Biden is Setting Up the Conditions for Dropping Out of Debates
- Kamala Harris Repeats the Lie That the Right Is Responsible for Political Violence While the Record Shows Otherwise
- Kenosha Residents and Business Owners Thank Trump, But Media Spins a Misleading Story About the Visit
- Sen. Cruz in Real Clear Politics: On National Security, Americans Have a Clear Choice in November
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- Border / immigration
- Human Smuggling Incidents Stopped in Six Days near Border in Texas
- Illegal Alien Dies on Texas Ranch near Border Despite Rescue Effort
- Gulf Cartel Boss Gets Second Chance to Run Operations on House Arrest
- Sen. Cruz asked to help secure reopening of border bridges
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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 9/03/2020 (pdf) – 12,870* 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 5,068,862.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read. Plus, according to the CDC only 9,856 have died nationwide with COVID-19 as the exclusive cause of death!
- CDC’s COVID-19 fatality numbers suggest fraud to cause panic
- 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 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
- Hydroxychloroquine Could Save ‘Thousands of Lives,’ Says Texas Freedom Caucus in Letter to Pharmacy Board
- Florida Gov. DeSantis: ‘We Will Never Do Any of These Lockdowns Again’ – he’s a read deal conservative
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Gov. Abbott hints at further reopening Texas, with ‘next steps’ next week
- Texas Coronavirus Update: More Than Half a Million Recoveries
- Some Texas VFW posts risk permanent closure after getting grouped with bars in Abbott’s COVID-19 order – thanks Tyrant Abbott
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Still Trending Lower in Texas
- Hundreds of N.Y.C. restaurants file $2 billion suit against Cuomo, de Blasio over indoor dining ban
- Andrew Cuomo wants 4000 NYPD officers to enforce social distancing if he opens NYC restaurants for indoor dining – but doesn’t want them to stop rioters!
- 99-year-old Lubbock woman survives COVID-19 – it can’t be!
- TMA president trying to scare people over COVID-19
- Austin Officials Have Some Explaining to Do About Questionable Coronavirus Decisions
- Texas nursing homes must routinely test staff for COVID-19 or face fines
- Restore our lives using medical science, data and common sense
- 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
- Unmasked Citizen With Medical Exemption Cuffed and Warned – the Guv’s decree does not even allow detaining someone over this. Thug cop.
- ‘No compassion left in this world.’: Woman streams tear-filled moment over H-E-B mask policy – is it time for specific response with force? HEB is run by Democrats and they don’t care, their among the first in Texas, before gov’t orders, to require masks if memory is correct.
- Despite Whitmer’s pleas for a national mask mandate Dr. Birx says that’s up to governors
- 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
- CDC to release new resources to support reopening schools
- AG Paxton Issues Legal Guidance on School Reopening
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- Texas coronavirus hospitalizations are at a two-month low, but school reopenings pose new risks – sewing the panic.
- Absent widespread testing, Texas schools have limited tools to prevent coronavirus spread
- Klondike, Floydada ISD announce schools face sanctions for not enforcing face coverings at UIL games – stupid beyond expression
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- Business
- Tilman Fertitta’s Post Oak Hotel earns historic double five-star rating from Forbes
- In Live Music Capital of the World, venues feel let down by Austin leaders – the council has been squeezing them for years, remember the noise ordinance?
- Condo project planned for South Congress Avenue in Austin
- DFW Loses Bid for Hyperloop Transit System Testing Center
- Clues abound in pair of mystery projects. Amazon, we’re looking at you
- Virgin Hotel in Dallas launches The Last Virgin Drag Brunch
- Brookings: Creative arts industry lost 2.7 million jobs, more than $150 billion in sales in 4 months – killed off by the Leftists these folk support! Karma?
- COVID-19 not letting up on supply chain disruptions: ‘Losses we’ve seen affect millions of Texans’
- Drive-in movies make a comeback during time of pandemic distancing
- Corey Friedman: Fed Up with California, Joe Rogan Picks Texas Over Taxes
- Phillips 66 Partners to expand Gray Oak pipeline from west Texas
- Another successful SpaceX Starship prototype hop in Texas, Also today they launched another collection of StarLink sats
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- ‘Protests shouldn’t end in people being blinded’: Cities, states begin to ban police use of rubber bullets – “protesters” are not shot, rioters are shot.
- St. Louis Mayor Flees Home over ’Protests,’ Threats
- Trump Considers Defunding Anarchist Cities
- Poll: Fans Say NBA Has Become ‘Too Political’ as Ratings Crumble
- NFL, NFLPA Announce 1-Hour Televised Social Justice Special on NBC – and most of the audience will be Lefty media people so they can write about it.
- Why Won’t Biden Condemn Antifa or BLM Violence?
- California DA requires department to assess ‘personal need’ of suspect before filing looting charge
- Kamala Harris Repeats the Lie That the Right Is Responsible for Political Violence While the Record Shows Otherwise
- Kenosha Residents and Business Owners Thank Trump, But Media Spins a Misleading Story About the Visit
- Herman: Battle brewing over marker at former Confederate Woman’s Home
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Fired Baytown police officer indicted after assault caught on video
- Houston firefighters rescue window washers after platform collapses at high-rise west of downtown
- Lawsuit Filed Against Apartment in Killing of Botham Jean – the long reach of integrity-free trial lawyers
- Emission Abates From Leaking Natural Gas Well of Texas Coast
- 7-year-old boy dies after mother finds him hanging
- Midland police investigating shooting between motorcycle gangs
- MPD: Man shot, assaulted with bat at Midland bar
- Appeals court upholds Nocona DWI double fatality conviction
- Victim captures burglar on tape after multiple break-ins
- Police: Victim in Wichita Falls nightclub shooting arrested with handgun
- Driver ejected, killed during roll over wreck in Mitchell County
- 25 indicted by Taylor County grand jury
- Abilene police arrest man for child sex crimes
- Abilene police arrest man who strangled wife twice
- Not the man who pulled the trigger – still charged with murder, Cruz takes a plea
- San Antonio lawyer Thomas J. Henry’s longtime partner asks court to sanction him in divorce case
- Bellmead teen shot, second hurt in struggle for gun during child custody exchange
- $5,000 reward offered in unsolved 2007 murder of 56-year-old Central Texas man
- Arrest at Killeen airport leads to seizure of heroin, meth, large amount of cash
- Man found dead at bottom of dirt trench in Cypress
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- Local government
- Odessa assistant fire chief, Joey White, suspended for 2 days, more
- Fitch Rates Midland, TX’s GO Refunding Bonds ‘AAA’; Outlook Stable
- Town of Pecos City seeking feedback on master plan
- Wichita Falls ISD November bond election information – big tax increase
- Wichita County proposes adopting the No New Revenue tax rate
- Report: Ex-county auditor discovered in former workplace, ushered out by deputies
- County commission taking bids on Taylor County Law Enforcement Center makeover
- Citizens push back against Lubbock council’s proposed tax rate VIDEO
- Activists launch petition seeking to disband CPS Energy’s board, more
- A germ-cleaning robot is sanitizing San Antonio’s airport
- In Live Music Capital of the World, venues feel let down by Austin leaders – the council has been squeezing them for years, remember the noise ordinance?
- Fired Liberty Hill police chief alleges mayor used racial slurs, interfered with job
- As Austin reshapes police, will Adler security detail be a casualty?
- Austin Officials Have Some Explaining to Do About Questionable Coronavirus Decisions
- Travis County expects to spend more to handle November vote
- Fort Worth Budget: Lower Spending, Slight Tax Increase, More Police
- Dallas mayor’s plan to cut ’bloated’ city salaries fails with no support – of course!
- Fort Worth and Arlington ISDs Pass Property Tax Rates Above Limit, Requires Voter Approval
- Harris County ESD No. 11 terminates contract with Cypress Creek EMS
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- Colleges & universities
- New $100 million grant could help Rice University discover the next ‘buckyballs’
- Rice University gets high marks as best in Texas, No. 7 in nation
- Midland College grad, supporter has vision for school’s future
- UT regents recognize two UPTB professors
- Texas Tech University Announces Approved MOU with MSU
- MSU Mustangs welcome five new coaches
- McMurry gets $600k federal grant for Hispanic, underrepresented students
- Ex-women’s basketball coach Marlene Stollings prepares to sue Texas Tech over firing
- Tech Graduate School undergoes changes amid pandemic
- Texas Public Colleges Set Aside Over $45 Million for Diversity Measures Last Year – legislature should shave their budgets by that amount at least
- Texas A&M, Baylor Lead State Universities In COVID-19 Cases – meaningless
- Enrollment Open for Texas Tuition Promise Fund
Pratt’s post for 9/3/2020
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