- State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled Nearly $3 Billion in November – a 6.3% falloff from last year
- Texas Taxpayers & Research Association Legislative Preview (pdf)
- AG Paxton: Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp Joins OAG as Special Advisor for 87th Legislative Session – a great move, especially with all the anti-gun rights bills filed by Leftist Democrats.
- Key Texas House leader says Capitol occupancy may be limited in upcoming legislative session – a great excuse to get us out of “their” domain!
- Rep. Geren: Talks on legislative operations point to only members and essential staff on Texas House floor during pandemic
- Republican Legislator Wants Health Sharing Ministries to Register With the State – No!, No!, No!
- More wanting legislators to be paid so they can make it a fulltime job
- Landgraf files bill to increase transparency in public debt elections
- House Bill Targets Last County School Board Remaining in Texas (Harris Co.)
- GOP lawmakers heading into the legislative session take aim at voter fraud, despite no evidence of widespread problem – here we go again from the Leftwing Texas Tribune! Hey Karen Brook Harper, does voter fraud have to be “widespread” to justify laws and rules to prevent it? Is the Tribune for voter fraud as long as it is limited?
- Texas enrollment and FAFSA applications down, as education leaders worry pandemic is disrupting college plans
- Judge Refuses to Toss Challenge to Texas Drone Photo Ban
- AG Ken Paxton’s antitrust lawsuit against Google could harm Texans, group of state leaders say – so what? Google is loyal to the Chinese communists not American values.
- Study: I-35 in Austin has the worst traffic in Texas – I hope we didn’t spend more than $10 to get this most obvious answer.
- Governor Abbott Appoints Ries To State Pension Review Board
- Governor Abbott Appoints MacNaughton To Advisory Committee To The Texas Board Of Criminal Justice On Offenders With Medical Or Mental Impairments
- Texas to shutter three more prisons as units face critical staffing shortages
- That Harley didn’t take MJ Hegar to the Senate. Now she’s selling it on eBay – so was it just a prop? Fake Dems. Hilarious quote from Dallas Co. Democratic Party chairwoman Donoavan!
- Garcia & Retta: The Latino Vote in Texas
- SD30: Gov. Abbott Backs Drew Springer Against Shelley Luther in Senate Runoff, more
- Crystal Mason, jailed for illegal voting conviction after casting provisional ballot, seeks to have conviction overturned
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Bipartisan group of lawmakers unveil $908 billion coronavirus relief package framework
- Left ‘Giddy’ Anticipating More Spending on Schools and Tighter Regulations on Local School Districts
- Barr Appoints Durham as Special Counsel to Continue Probe under Biden
- Why A Return Of Earmarks Could Ease Gridlock – yep, the pork barrel will roll big!
- Federal watchdog says Labor’s jobless numbers inaccurate, points to pre-pandemic data collecting
- Circuit Judge Tom Reavley, ‘Pope of the Fifth Circuit,’ Has Died, more
- Sen. Cruz Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Emergency Appeal on Pennsylvania Election Challenge
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump raises at least $150 million since Election Day, as supporters back election litigation
- Barr: No evidence of fraud that’d change outcome of presidential election – they’ve investigated almost nothing.
- IT Contractor Who Worked With Dominion on Election Day in Detroit: ‘What I Witnessed at the TCF Center Was Complete Fraud’
- Cyber Security Expert: Dominion Was Connected to Internet on Election Day, Communicated Overseas
- Mathematician Says Biden May have Received 130 Percent of the Democrat Vote in Maricopa County, AZ
- The Badger State’s Ballot ‘Fix’ Was In
- Trump team to file suit in Wisconsin Supreme Court alleging ‘abuse’ in absentee voting
- Whistleblowers allege ballots illegally crossed state lines, ballot backdating, digital manipulation
- Georgia secretary of state probing Warnock-led voter registration group for voter fraud
- Twitter Blacklists Mathematician Who Testified at Arizona Voter Fraud Hearing
- Chris Krebs: Nothing ‘Based in Reality’ Shows Election Wasn’t Secure
- Controversial federal judge draws Trump lawsuit
- Poll Observer: Dem Operative From California Worked at Pima County Polling Place on Election Day to ‘Turn Arizona Blue’
- Our Election System Has Been Weaponized
- Team Biden Defends Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s Pink Hammer and Sickle Hat
- Biden heal the nation? He can’t even heal his own party
- Biden’s inaugural committee will accept big bucks from corporations – that was reported as terrible when it was for Trump.
- The baffling Georgia boycott effort – surely it’s a false flag operation and pro-Trump folk are not this stupid.
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- Border / immigration
- Guatemalan Allegedly Assaults Border Patrol Agent in West Texas
- Judge: Detained immigrants must see a judge within 10 days – sorry stupid judge but you cannot fiat capacity.
- Pop-Up School for US Asylum Seekers Thrives Despite Pandemic
- Cartel Gunmen Force Bus Driver to Ram Mexican Border City Police Cameras
- Vargas: SCOTUS must include undocumented immigrants in 2020 Census Apportionment
- Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case to Exclude Illegal Immigrants from Census
- Cuellar: I’m looking forward to telling border wall contractors to pack their bags
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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 12/01/2020 (pdf) – 21,379* deaths & “active cases” of 186,678 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about half of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy.
- McLennan Co. judge closes bars due to WuFlu
- Site counts the “Price of Panic” over COVID
- Tucker Carlson: ‘Dr. Fauci Was Revealed as a Power-Mad Incompetent’ VIDEO
- David Mamet Calls Out ‘Experts’ and Questions Lockdowns: ‘The Virus Here Is Government’
- White House report calls on Texas to ‘intensify’ COVID-19 mitigation efforts
- Houston doctor in heartbreaking Covid-19 photo pleads with public to slow the spread – he’s a publicity hound and note that he chooses to go to work everyday but thinks others shouldn’t. If they didn’t he couldn’t be fed, there would be no power at the hospital, and no supplies or drugs for the patient.
- Hamilton ‘gutted’ after positive COVID-19 test – due to economic incentive these folk are following extreme mitigation techniques not even possible for most people and yet quite a few have had WuFlu (and quickly recovered) during the season. What this suggests is the relative ineffectiveness of masks and other mitigation ideas being foisted upon us.
- WHO chief: Mexico in ‘bad shape’ with coronavirus pandemic
- Wichita Falls health director: Coronavirus worse than anything we’ve seen in our lifetime – then we’ve had it easier than any other people. Wonder if she knows about the Asian Flu, Polio, or many other much worse things my living parents have lived through.
- Covid Was Hiding Among Colds and Flus
- Germans face a ‘lockdown light’ for Christmas
- UK: COVID-19 Vaccine Refusers Could Be Denied Entry to Restaurants, Bars
- Austin City Council to Extend Controversial COVID Rules and Fines Another Year – yes, another YEAR!
- No citations issued for violating Thanksgiving curfew in San Antonio
- Denver mayor tries to save his job with apology
- Newsom threatens California counties with new stay-at-home order
- Los Angeles County lawmaker dined outdoors hours after passing a ban on outside eating
- Hundreds Protest Oregon Gym’s $90,000 Coronavirus Fine
- 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.
- Odessa City Council unanimously supports mask declaration, COVID-19 disaster declaration – another of many reasons not to live in Odessa
- 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
- Study: Children are so immune to COVID-19 that even after extensive exposure they test negative
- TMA COVID-19 Experts Urge Testing for Schoolchildren
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- Business/Economy
- State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled Nearly $3 Billion in November
- Texas Service Sector Activity Flattens Out; Texas Retail Sales Decline
- Exxon Tries to Put the Worst Behind It With $20 Billion Writedown
- OECD Cuts Global Forecast, Warns Governments to Maintain Support
- SpaceX Starship hop in Texas now set for December 2nd
- Field’s Edge breaks ground on tiny-home village for homeless in Midland
- Texas Tech Alumnus Working to Protect Dogs with Masks
- $24 million construction permit in Lubbock has Amazon’s name written all over it.
- Man sues Houston Live Stock Show & Redo for $1M, claims he tripped and smashed his face while leaving at night
- BBVA hit with racial discrimination lawsuit over hire of Houston market chief executive
- Houston offshore oil company wins two lease blocks in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
- $143 million wrongful termination win comes too late for Downhole Technology founder
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Pro-law enforcement billboards go up in Central Texas VIDEO
- Police Cruiser Set Ablaze in Suspected Portland Arson
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Texas Man Sent to Prison for Bomb Threat to Federal Reserve
- Tyler residents charged in shooting rampage in Nevada, Arizona
- 3rd suspect in shooting death on West Vance Street transferred to Smith County
- Longview man killed in Rusk County crash
- Caddo coroner identifies pregnant woman who died after she and a man were shot in a car
- Warrant: Tyler woman possibly used accelerant to set her own house on fire
- Harlingen woman wanted for breaking into home, damages property
- Vandals destroy downtown Lufkin butterfly mural – that was a very nice mural
- No injuries reported in Martin County Explosion
- Odessa police searching for missing woman
- Gun trumps knife in local showdown
- Wife shoots husband after he allegedly chokes her ex-husband
- Rotan woman killed in rollover crash in Fisher County
- Palestine man dies in crash near Colorado City
- Police release details on rollover crash that killed 2-year-old’s mom before AMBER Alert
- Six people killed during two-vehicle crash in Scurry County
- Market Street shooting suspect Robert Baker appears in court, asks for lower bond
- Lubbock murder defendant returns to jail after release on ‘clerical error’
- Montgomery Co. man sentenced to 30 years in prison for beating, torturing wife
- Tarrant Co. Inmate Uses Fire Extinguisher, Hose to Make Brief Escape
- Austin police looking for suspects in Thanksgiving drive-by shootings
- Authorities Probe Deaths of 2 Service Members at San Antonio Base
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- Local government
- Longest serving DA in Ector County leaves post for private practice
- City of Wichita Falls properties for sale in sealed bid
- Abilene City Council to discuss potential budget cuts
- Retired Abilene Police Lt. Lynn Beard running for City Council
- Lubbock City Council considering legislative agenda for next year
- Harris County Violated Election Law in Appointing Administrator, Says Attorney General
- House Bill Targets Last County School Board Remaining in Texas (Harris Co.)
- Garland ISD Grappling With $32 Million Deficit After Voters Reject Tax Increase – way to go voters!
- Garland ISD wants help picking a new mascot after dropping Confederate ‘Colonel’, Garland finally moves against Confederate colonels
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- Colleges & universities
- With honeymoon long over, is a Texas-Herman divorce imminent?
- Professor sues UT alleging retaliation, discrimination over work on equity
- UT: Butler should consider fundraising for more practice rooms
- UT: Students shouldn’t have to explain themselves before getting help
- SMU: Human Rights Council Demands More Inclusion, Diversity for Homecoming – the Leftist are everywhere.
- Midland College to offer 4 learning options for spring 2021
- Remote learning, new health sciences building on Odessa College agenda
- Texas enrollment and FAFSA applications down, as education leaders worry pandemic is disrupting college plans
Pratt’s post for 12/1/2020
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