- Senator Hall is right and Governor Abbott rottenly wrong
- Rep. Landgraf expects challenging legislative session – and so does everyone else.
- Independent Analysis Recommends Windstorm Insurance Rate Hikes of 44% – yes but politicians are going to put right back where we were with TWIA
- Governor Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration In Response To Tropical Storm Beta
- Rep. Howard calls on Gov. Abbott to release a plan for allocating remaining $5.7 billion in CARES Act funding for Texas
- Governor Abbott Lowers Texas Flags To Honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- DPS Announces Saturday Appointments through December
- TABC Explores Need for More Ethnic Diversity, More Female Officers
- Abbott Appoints Krawczyk To Family and Protective Services Council
- Abbott Appoints Hayes And Mentesana To Appraisal Management Companies Advisory Committee
- Why the Texas Supreme Court is allowing candidates who didn’t pay fees onto Nov. ballots
- Postal Service says voter registration, vote-by-mail materials permitted in Houston post offices
- Patriots Needed NOW to Secure Elections
- Time to Protect Texas Elections
- GOP Chairman Calls for Attorney General to Seize Harris County Mail-in Ballot Applications
- Democrat Tulsi Gabbard says voter fraud ‘serious threat,’ seeks to outlaw ballot harvesting
- With COVID-19 pandemic still a problem, Texas candidates weigh return to in-person campaigning
- SD30: Midland’s Tim Dunn Contributes $1 Million to Shelley Luther’s State Senate Campaign – I’ve been 99% with Dunn but this is a real mistake.
- SD30: Rep. Springer candidate goes virtual after wife tests positive for COVID, more
- SD30: Huffines: Texans Need Outsiders Like Shelley Luther in Austin – yes but not one who has no history of demonstrating conservative political beliefs.
- SD30: Fallon Jabs Luther: We Don’t Want a Senator ‘At Odds’ With Abbott
- SD30: What is Shelley Luther hiding?
- TX25: Democrat Julie Oliver launches 6-figure TV ad buy
- TX21: Wendy Davis: Congress should investigate ICE immigrant hysterectomies
- U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls expanding mail-in voting “playing with fire” despite rarity of voter fraud
- Immigration activists call out Cornyn for dishonest ad
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump: Expect the SCOTUS nomination at the end of the week
- Lowry: A Lame-Duck Confirmation Vote May Be a Chimera
- Trump’s Supreme Court nominee list includes 3 Texans
- Ted Cruz says Senate should confirm Justice Ginsburg’s replacement before election, Cruz favors replacing Ginsburg before November election
- Sen. Cruz for FoxNews.com: After Ginsburg – Why the Senate Must Confirm Her Successor Before Election Day
- Cruz, Cornyn Hypocrites for Backing Ginsburg Replacement Before Year Ends
- The amazingly persistent myth of a non-political Supreme Court
- Fill the seat: There will be no constitutional crisis.
- ‘Notorious RBG’ and her triumph over tribalism
- What happens to Roe v. Wade without Ruth Bader Ginsburg? – life goes on and maybe for millions more babies currently being aborted if that evil travesty is overturned someday.
- The Cockburn prize for most cringeworthy RBG tweet goes to…
- 6 ways Justice Ginsburg’s death could have major implications for Texas
- Two female federal judges emerge as top contenders for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee
- Pelosi won’t rule out impeachment to stop Trump on Supreme Court nominee
- Ocasio-Cortez: Impeachment of AG Barr, Trump on the Table to Stop SCOTUS Pick
- Cotton says Senate to move ‘without delay’ on Ginsburg replacement, Coons seeks delay
- Trump says he approves TikTok deal, with possible Texas headquarters
- House approves Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s bill to memorialize long-forgotten Texas Legation in Washington
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- Presidential race / national politics
- How Ginsburg’s death could reshape the presidential campaign
- Photos: Lake Livingston, Texas Boat Rally for Trump VIDEO
- Trump Tells Minnesota Rally Crowd: ‘I’m Your Wall Between American Dream and Chaos’
- Biden holds steady 6-point lead over Trump less than 45 days from election
- Biden incorrectly states 200 million people in U.S. have died of coronavirus
- After Ginsburg’s death, 59% believe Biden should reveal his Supreme Court candidates
- A year after impeachment, Hunter Biden’s Ukraine activities come home to roost
- College professor tells students she hopes all Trump supporters die of Covid before election
- How environmentalists destroyed California’s forests: Short-sighted eco-measures helped cause the devastation we see today.
- ‘Male-bashing’ taking its toll on families, churches
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- Border / immigration
- CBP Unmanned Aircraft Flights Lead to Multiple Arrests in Texas near Border
- Illegal Aliens Rescued After Being Stuck on New Border Wall VIDEO
- 35 Migrants Found During 5 Stash House Raids in Texas near Border
- 100 Pounds of Drugs Found in Pickup Truck at Texas Border Crossing
- COVID-19 Spotlights Patient Transport Delays At the Border, But We Can Slash Wait Times
- Border Patrol agent and teenager in Juárez play catch across the border
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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 9/21/2020 (pdf) – 14,893 deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,593,488. * 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 overstated COVID positive testing rate by about 100%
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Texas press discovering Abbott’s rule by decree power grab months late
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Never has a virus been so oversold, Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- 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, Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- 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
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown, The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Tucker Carlson: From Its Very First Days This Pandemic Was Shrouded in Lies
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Liberty Going Out of Fashion: 69% of Britons Support 9pm Coronavirus Curfew
- Chinese virologist: China’s government ‘intentionally’ released COVID-19
- COVID-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Abbott Over Nursing Home ‘Edicts,’ Alleges Constitutional Violations
- Abbott relaxes limits on restaurants, retail and gyms, but keeps bars closed
- Mayor Payton: Midland is ‘open for business’
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction, Texas Supreme Court clarifies CDC eviction order
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- Tilove: Outside Abbott’s window, a plea for empathy – disgusting B.S. that Abbott is responsible for anyone’s death of a virus. He’s bankrupted and put people out of work directly, as well as trampled on our fundamental rights, but he has not made anyone ill or killed them. Shameless ignorant scapegoating people.
- Bars rip Abbott for keeping them closed
- Abbott: Most businesses and restaurants can expand reopening capacity
- Practically no COVID-19 illnesses among professional athletes
- CDC removes update about coronavirus airborne transmission – another flip-flop
- China covered up COVID origins and WHO was complicit in spreading disinformation per report
- COVID & masks
- 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 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…)
- 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
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- 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’
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Seven weeks after mask mandate, 40% of Ohio counties show an INCREASE in COVID-19
- Modern fascist America: No mask, no healthcare
- Charges dropped against man in face mask dispute with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff
- 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
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- Houston-area school districts report ‘pretty positive’ results, no big outbreaks after reopening
- Floydada ISD asks for help complying with UIL guidelines
- Fort Worth ISD Board President Opposed to In-Person Classes Photographed at Football Game
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- Business/Economy
- Rich states, Poor states Index ranks Utah, Texas first for economic outlook, performance
- Houston-to-Dallas bullet train given green light from feds, company says
- New Direct-to-Patient Health Care Platform Takes Off in Texas
- Condo project planned near Shoal Creek in Austin
- New solar plant highlights Permian’s energy riches
- Abilene bar struggles to make ends meet as bars remain closed
- Tik Tok’s new headquarters could potentially move to the Lone Star State
- Pabst Brewing sets up new headquarters in Lone Star and Pearl country
- Oasis Petroleum skips interest payment amid negotiations with creditors
- 873-acre tract near Magnolia sold for single-family home community
- Chuck E. Cheese CEO talks future with new tech, safety precautions
- Robots will soon be fulfilling your H-E-B online grocery orders
- Metro Aerospace, a small Dallas-based defense company, seizes opportunity to grow
- Dallas-Fort Worth new home sales hit annual record levels, but prices slide again
- 7-Eleven expects to add 20,000 more jobs this year
- Denbury returns to stock market after shedding $2.1 billion in debt
- Century-old Fort Worth building joins list of landmarks for sale
- American Airlines plans to train pilots on 737 Max in late October
- Fewer data center projects are being built in North Texas this year
- Huge DFW Airport business park hits the market
- Microsoft’s $7.5 billion video game deal includes Dallas-based developers
- New biotech hub is a big win for Dallas’ ambitious Pegasus Park
- Alamo Drafthouse closes 4 of its 6 movie theaters in Dallas-Fort Worth
- Amazon plans to put 1,000 warehouses in neighborhoods
- Amazon to hire more than 6,500 workers in Dallas ahead of the holiday season
- ‘Most hotel owners can’t afford to pay their mortgages’: 3 S.A. hoteliers on their industry’s crisis
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Down the memory hole: Black Lives Matter deletes “what we believe” page
- Justice Department tags NYC, Portland, Seattle as cities permitting violence and destruction
- NAACP weighs in on Midland L.E.E. solution – they object because of the sound/name LEE. I grew up with a black neighbor named Lee, was she objectionable?
- Cedar Park students disciplined after stealing BLM yard signs, yelling racial slur – good but would it go the other way?
- ‘The View’ segment ends when Republican Kim Klacik blasts Behar for ‘parading around in blackface’
- Another Race Hoax: Indiana racial justice activist lied about being Black
- Protesters descend on Lindsey Graham’s home after demonstrating outside of McConnell’s
- $20,000 acrylic case installed around Jefferson marker
- Baylor athletes protest on-campus
- Donald Trump Calls Los Angeles Deputies Who Were Ambushed and Shot
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Turner: ‘Expect the unexpected’ as Tropical Storm Beta approaches Houston region
- Tropical Storm Beta Forecast to Make Landfall Late Monday in Texas, La.
- Millions of people along the Gulf Coast are preparing for Tropical Storm Beta
- Schools, businesses temporarily close as Tropical Storm Beta expected to bring heavy rain
- Arrest in Case of Ricin Letters Sent to White House, Texas, Ricin envelopes mailed to Hidalgo County sheriff, detention staff, Mission PD
- 4 People Killed in Single-Engine Airplane Crash in Texas
- Deputies Find 1 Woman Dead, 1 Chained to Bed at Texas Home
- Texas Man Drowns in Southeastern Oklahoma River
- Midland PD: Alleged victim states car was shot at
- Hog wild: U.S. and Texas have ‘out of control’ population of ‘super-pigs,’ expert says VIDEO
- Teens sharing explicit pics, videos worries police
- OSU radio team member killed at Mineral Wells ProRodeo
- Accused car burglar who left ID with loot arrested
- Condoms help cops catch burglary suspect
- Man arrested for trying to free his brother from jail
- Brown Co. grand jury returns Intoxication manslaughter indictment
- Woman rushed to hospital after accidental shooting in south Abilene
- Indictment: Brother-in-law was suspect who shot and killed Abilene realtor
- San Antonio: Elderly man catches fire after oxygen tank tubes ignite while he’s smoking
- Lubbock PD offers $5,000 reward for information on Jan. 1 Level Nightclub homicide
- Lubbock Police Investigates Hit-and-Run Involving Officer
- Lubbock woman sexually assaulted in back of cab, police report says
- Spur, Dickens and McAdoo VFDs respond to fire at Duck Creek Game Processing
- Houston Woman Created Fake Beauty Company, Stole $1.9 Million in Small Business Loans, Feds Say
- Elderly woman dies in South Austin apartment fire
- Austin police identify man pronounced dead at bus stop Wednesday
- Groesbeck Police Investigates stabbing, Juvenile Arrested
- Forney Man Killed in Head-On Crash with Semitrailer
- Arlington Police Arrest Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Man With His Van
- Dallas Police Arrest 36-Year-Old For Shooting Death Of John Carter
- Amateur Fort Worth Golfer Shaun Hensley Makes Hole-In-One, Wins New Luxury Car
- Man drowns after jumping into lake at golf course in Trinity County, deputies say
- Robber has hit 6 North Texas grocery stores, 3 in Fort Worth
- 3 children killed, 2 injured in 2-vehicle collision on Titanic Avenue in Northeast El Paso
- El Paso Fire Department retrieves body found in Lower Valley canal
- Texas Tech Running Back SaRodorick Thompson Arrested in Lubbock
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- Local government
- Citizens Stop Farmers Branch From Issuing Debt Without Voter Approval
- Kyle residents get more time to apply for Rebel Drive renaming committee – “rebel” is a standard word and does not specifically refer to the Confederacy. Texans rebelled against Mexico in our revolution. Americans were rebels against England, etc. Stupid people.
- Veach takes over as public information officer for Ector Co. sheriff’s office
- Wichita County approves final budget, no-new-revenue tax rate
- Stephens County Attorney requests Attorney General’s decision on nepotism law for the upcoming election
- Abilene: Two-hour parking downtown a possibility
- Bailey County closes county offices due to COVID-19 outbreak
- Former Lubbock Fire Chief Michael Lewis honored by International Firefighter Assoc.
- New focus to upgrade McMillan Dam at Buffalo Springs Lake before it’s too late – “If a major rain event unlike one Lubbock has seen before occurs, then there’d be real concern about the dam’s current integrity.”
- Carroll ISD: Citizen Disputes Committee Chair’s Account on Meeting Over Pro-LGBTQ+ School Plan
- Dallas mayor says council is cutting ‘backroom’ budget deals. But some say he quit communicating
- Hutto to reopen City Hall on Oct. 1; library and utility billing already open
- Carthage officials eye potential ordinance to ban ‘offensive’ billboard ads – hmm
- City of Houston courts suspend all jury trials through November
- Smith County suspends jury duty through December 1st
- Attorney claims Webb CISD board members profited from contract
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- Colleges & universities
- Most Dallas College Spring 2021 Semester Classes To Be Offered Online
- Odessa College to hold tax rate hearing for big tax increase
- TTU Faculty Members’ New Book on Supervillains Allows Closer Look at Ourselves
- COVID-19 cases at SMU, TCU decline compared to previous week
- Baylor athletes protest on-campus
- TCU fashion students adjust to a fashion industry changed by COVID-19
- UT-Austin student petition calls for mandatory COVID-19 testing
Pratt’s post for 9/21/2020
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