- Texas GOP infighting over speaker’s gavel a glimpse of party’s post-Trump future in Washington – a fine press outlet but a shallow reaching to make a “today” link to Trump. The Texas House speaker issue is not new and the fight goes back a decade.
- Allen West takes sharp-elbowed approach as Texas GOP chair, raising intraparty tension ahead of legislative session – good and it’s not new tension just a GOP chairman who represents the party members who elected him for once.
- AG Ken Paxton on misconduct allegations: ‘I make no apologies’ – so far nothing has been shown to be cause for apology except from his staff who thought they were the boss and kneecapped him when he didn’t allow such.
- Texas House General Investigating Committee sets meeting for Monday about an apparent workplace harassment complaint
- Costs of new school finance law continue to climb
- Rep. Patterson urges TEA to waive December STAAR EOC testing – B.S., I’m still paying full school taxes and I want measurements!
- Proposed K-12 Sex Ed Curriculum Highlights Abstinence, Consent, and Online Behavior
- Houston Students Push Teachers, State Board To Adopt Anti-Racist Curriculum – they want state defined values pushed upon themselves.
- New Bill Would Classify Gender Disfigurement as Child Abuse
- Texas lawmakers revive Black Caucus Foundation to push social justice, empowerment issues – is this not racist inherently?
- Texas Tribune pumps brakes on Abbott’s high-speed rail letter to Japan
- More than eight years in, Texas high-speed rail company still lacks permits to build Dallas-to-Houston route
- Supreme Court declines to order virus safety steps for vulnerable Texas inmates
- TDI: Insurance adjuster test now available online
- Governor Abbott Appoints Gore & Arnold To Texas Workforce Investment Council
- Congressman, Direct Action raise concerns about election fraud in Texas
- Tarrant Co. Elections Administrator Explains County’s Questionable Voter Turnout Report
- Travis County Clerk Settles With Local Republicans Over Poll Watcher Dispute
- Midland resident was unable to vote after someone voted for her
- Herman: The chair of Texas GOP is not a registered Republican. Nobody registered in Texas is. – Actually that headline is wrong. In Texas voting in the primary is a form of party registration and it lasts for 1 year.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- U.S. Rep. Chip Roy: ‘I will do whatever I want to do on Thanksgiving’
- Biden plans airport mask rules
- McCaul, Cornyn, Thornberry join GOP pushback to Trump’s plan to slash U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan
- These Texans were rescued by the U.S. government after getting stranded in Peru. Now, the bills are arriving. – yes, it always works this way. You do not want to choose an official evacuation flight unless it’s life or death.
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Lindsey Graham: Biden Not ‘President-Elect’ Until Trump Concedes, or Court Cases Have Been Dismissed and States Certify
- President Trump gets more than 1,000 new votes in Georgia after missing ballots are discovered
- Giuliani “enters the ring” in Team Trump’s Pennsylvania case
- Rep. Louie Gohmert sees ‘revolution’ as option in face of ‘cheated election’ – that is undeniable no matter how appalled are Leftists in the press
- These Texans are being eyed for Biden administration jobs
- Transition update: Rep. Filemon Vela floated as possible cabinet pick
- Biden Appoints ‘Anti-Free Speech’ Richard Stengel to Transition Team Media Post
- What happens if the Electoral College can’t pick a winner?
- Financially Troubled Startup Helped Power Trump Campaign
- The inevitability of Trump 2024
- Texas Trump Supporters Unite to ‘Stop the Steal’
- Trump Supporters Protest Election Results in Downtown Dallas
- Who deserves blame for the Democrats’ lost House seats?
- Newsflash for CNN: You can’t cancel Christmas stupid
- Saluting the heroes of CNN: As the Resistance pick through the rubble of the Trump regime, CNN anchors are counting the cost.
- The Obamas Show Their Ugly Side
- Dershowitz: Goergia Candidate Raphael Warnock’s Anti-Israel Views Could Cost Democrats the Senate
- Zuckerberg: Facebook Censored ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop ‘Violence or Civil Unrest’ – yeah right!
- Dick Blumenthal Complains Facebook Not Censoring Breitbart Enough
- Sen. Blackburn: Big Tech Censorship Is Election Interference
- Nolte: Corporate Media Threaten to Blacklist Parler and Substack for Refusing to Blacklist
- California: 2 Charged with Voter Fraud, Allegedly Submitted Thousands of Registrations on Behalf of Homeless
- No bail for armed man who drove to Democrat-run Philly to challenge the vote
- Arizona’s Biggs, Gosar: ‘This Election Is a Joke… America Deserves an Election Audit’
- Memory Card with Uncounted Votes Found in Georgia
- Once a black woman holds a political seat must it always be filled by another black woman? – yes unless she is a conservative or Republican!
- Abortion Giant Changes Name to Downplay Eugenicist Founder
- Guess Which Political Party Spent the Most on the 2020 Election…
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- Border / immigration
- 4-year-old girl found amongst group of illegal aliens on raft
- Human smuggling attempts result in 74 arrests, CBP says
- Stash House Raids Yield Arrests of 100 Migrants in Texas near Border
- Man found with weapon, drugs and money at Presidio Port
- CBP Officers save the life of woman at the Ysleta port of entry
- Mexican Cartel Operative’s Body Snatched from Funeral Home Reappears
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- Coronavirus a.k.a. WuFlu related – See this link for archive of essential WuFlu-related stories
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 11/17/2020 (pdf) – 19,579* deaths & “active cases” of 135,231 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 4/10ths of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy
- Texas Surpasses 20,000 Virus Deaths, Second Highest in US – but actually 22nd highest per capita and 31st highest number of total recorded cases per capita
- Austin Public Health creates coronavirus vaccine distribution plan as trials show promise
- Supreme Court declines to order virus safety steps for vulnerable Texas inmates
- Mayor Urges Houstonians to Forgo Holiday Gatherings, Parade Canceled – bleep him.
- Houston cancels Thanksgiving parade for the first time ever as COVID-19 pandemic continues
- Harris County, TX announces plan to randomly knock on doors and collect blood samples – all you need do is say “get a warrant” and then close the door.
- Jake Tapper: ‘Christmas Is Probably not Gonna be Possible’ This Year
- 4-year-old San Antonio boy loses both parents to COVID-19
- Texas leaders stick with COVID-19 reopening plan as other states lock down – there is zero reason to move toward restrictions statewide. Since the media stories have not told you, the active cases in Texas peaked last week and has been trending down. 135,321 in today’s report, it was 137,022 on Nov. 12th.
- Sweden’s rule of eight marks a change in strategy – see, it’s the politicians clamoring for control here, not the health officials.
- NYC Restaurants: 10 p.m. Coronavirus Curfew Reduced Revenue by 30 Percent
- New York Sheriffs: No, we won’t be enforcing Cuomo’s Thanksgiving restrictions
- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Won’t Say if He Will Stay in the State for Thanksgiving Despite Democrats Discouraging Nonessential Travel
- Gov. DeSantis’ Office Vows No Lockdown in Florida
- California gov’t officials: Lockdowns for thee, Hawaii for we?
- Pfizer chooses 4 states for pilot vaccine delivery program
- Here are the side effects you might feel from a COVID vaccine
- Wichita Co. Judge Gossom: COVID discussions do not include another lockdown
- COVID-19 deaths plummeting worldwide
- Nature: Why do COVID death rates seem to be falling?
- Michigan’s Whitmer says state can’t do much to help laid-off workers, calls for federal money
- In a season of faith, new COVID-19 restrictions impact the Catholic Church
- Local media complicit in undue COVID panic reporting
- ‘COVID Is Real:’ Rural Health Care Providers Struggle To Treat The Sick – of course it is “real” but it doesn’t require much of any treatment for most patients
- Internal email reveals 65 virus cases among WHO Geneva staff – demonstrating all this mitigation stuff is rather worthless.
- COVID & masks – See this link for a group of essential mask-related stories
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread
- Biden plans airport mask rules
- Midland’s mayor put the talkers to the test and it worked, council voted down mask mandate!, more, more
- Dufford: Businesses shouldn’t be responsible for mask mandate
- COVID & schools – See this link for more.
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Fort Stockton ISD moving to virtual learning next week
- Kaufman: Parental Pressure Forces School District COVID Policy Change in Frisco
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- Business/Economy
- Austin’s Resideo plans stock offering, could raise $300M
- Austin-area auto sales slowed in October
- San Antonio home sales surge as inventory tightens
- Significant opportunities for manufacturing could be coming to border region
- American Airlines Plan Voluntary COVID-19 Testing Plan
- SpaceX Capsule With 4 Astronauts Reaches Space Station
- Networks restored at Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center after security threat
- Hearst to move newspaper’s print production from San Antonio to Houston
- Decision at Express-News provokes irony, nostalgia, and sadness
- More than eight years in, Texas high-speed rail company still lacks permits to build Dallas-to-Houston route
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- No Police: Chicago wants to send a paramedic and a clinician to mental health calls
- Democrats discover ‘Defund Police’ message hurt them in the election
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Taylor man accused of stabbing girlfriend 10 times arrested in Mexico after 4-year search
- Authorities arrest man accused in Cedar Park shooting
- Liberty Hill teen killed while riding bike on highway identified
- 1 injured, 1 arrested as weekend shootings in San Marcos continue, police say
- Teenager kicked, tased by Schertz police speaks out
- Body cam shows NBPD officer tazing man during a traffic stop
- Foul play suspected in disappearance of Laredo man
- Three arrested after shooting in Weslaco restaurant
- Officials identify body recovered from RGV canal
- Police searching for man accused of helping hide runaway girl in Edinburg
- Odessa man charged with racing with children in car
- Woman charged with punching, choking boyfriend
- Man charged with inappropriately touching girl
- Man charged with physically, sexually assaulting woman
- Registered sex offender charged with online solicitation of minor
- Wichita Falls police charge man with capital murder
- Wichita Falls PD identify two suspects after car hits house, narcotics found
- Woman charged with driving SUV into man
- 6-year-old girl dies after being struck by school bus in Conroe
- Abilene woman killed, struck by vehicle in south Abilene
- Two Abilene men killed in plane crash reported in Rockwall
- FAA investigators found thick ice on plane after deadly crash in Lubbock
- Teaching assistant set to graduate from UTSA killed in hit-and-run crash, reward offered
- Lubbock PD Releases Name of Pedestrian Killed in Traffic Accident
- Brothers fight with sword and tent spikes, according to Lubbock Police
- Man in fatal Market Street shooting faces second charge
- Slaton package thief pleads guilty in federal court
- Alabama man pleads guilty to production of child porn involving Shallowater teen
- Wife of disgraced San Antonio oilman defaults on settlement
- Lubbock police searching for missing 14-year-old girl
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- Local government
- Starr County jail officers released after security breach
- Edinburg council to consider tax incentive for DHR $76.8 million expansion – why should taxpayers pay for a hospital’s expansion?
- Dr. Umair Shah, head of Harris County’s COVID-19 response, to step down
- Ector County Commissioners enact burn ban
- Abilene council to hear request for budget cuts, offsets
- Lubbock public hearing Tuesday to tackle “sanctuary for the unborn” status
- Tarrant Co. Elections Administrator Explains County’s Questionable Voter Turnout Report
- Amarillo City Council Considering Spending on Projects Voters Rejected
- Travis County Clerk Settles With Local Republicans Over Poll Watcher Dispute
- DeSoto to hold virtual celebration for late Mayor Curtistene McCowan
- Taxpayers can’t keep the Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park afloat
- San Antonio’s CPS Energy board punts on new solar, energy efficiency programs
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas A&M leaders ask students to take COVID test before Thanksgiving
- MSU Bridwell Activities Center begins renovations
- TTU Delayed Spring 2021 start, shortened spring break affect COVID-19 spread
Pratt’s post for 11/17/2020
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