- House Administration publishes operation plan for first day of session.
- Patrick Fights For Republicans While Phelan Fights For? AUDIO
- Limit taxpayer-funded lobbying, but give cities a voice – an example of the insanity. Cities are not citizens, they belong to citizens. Cities do not need any special voice other than that of their citizen owners and their elected representatives.
- Restrictions on public access to Texas Capitol to require COVID test
- Texans might be ready for casinos, but lawmakers aren’t convinced
- $22.6 Billion in Outstanding Debt Adds to Fiscal Strain on Texas Localities, Taxpayers
- Texas Education Agency takes abuse of COVID “emergency” to new lows
- Report: Texas improving access to mental health care services
- Texas attorney general’s office denies whistleblowers were fired because they reported Ken Paxton to authorities
- A dead animal and a warning: Texas AG Ken Paxton spars with campaign donor over alleged text threats
- 200 Plus Houston Road Rage Incidents Prompt Local and State Response
- Texas GOP Chairman Allen West says party will boost outreach to minorities – fine but gimmicks don’t work.
- Welcome to Texas, Toyota, CBRE, HPE, Oracle and Elon Musk – Now start voting Republican!
- RIP: 72nd District Court Judge Ruben Reyes, more, more, more, more, more – one of the finest men I’ve known and a model father and husband. Ruben was a Christian man of authentic faith and decent in every way.
- SD30: Texas Senate runoff shapes up as battle for the future of Texas Republican party
- SD30: Runoff Election Heats Up Between Shelley Luther and Drew Springer
- SD30: Shelley Luther, Drew Springer take vastly different approaches to winning North Texas Senate seat
- SD30 runoff reports show serious money flowing into low turnout race
- SD30: Southwest Pipe Trades Association Endorses Springer
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz introduces Legacy Act to preserve Medal of Honor recipients’ honor
- Pompeo: China Infiltrating Our Government, Businesses, and Schools
- Bovard: Section 230 Protects Big Tech From Lawsuits. But It Was Never Supposed to Be Bulletproof.
- Federal agencies hacked including U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments
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- Presidential race / national politics
- U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Determine the Integrity of the 2020 Election
- Texans react as Supreme Court tosses AG Ken Paxton’s suit challenging election
- Texas electors meet at 2 p.m., Biden set to formally win election
- Texas casts its 38 electoral votes for Donald Trump, more
- GOP protests as Michigan Dems cast electoral votes for Biden
- Michigan Capitol Closed Due to ‘Credible Threats of Violence’ as Electors Meet
- Michigan legislature presses ahead with investigation into election irregularities
- Judge orders release of report showing Dominion Voting Systems had 68% error rate in Michigan county
- After Examining Antrim County Voting Machines, ASOG Concludes Dominion ‘Intentionally Designed’ to ‘Create Systemic Fraud’
- Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Trump Lawsuit to Overturn Election Results
- White House’s Stephen Miller: ’Alternate slate of electors’ will vote in contested states
- Rep. Arrington explains support of election vetting
- Majority in new poll support allowing authorities to require proof of citizenship for voting
- ‘We’ve learned our lesson’: Republicans target early vote in Georgia runoff election
- ‘Collusion’ vs. Collusion
- Is America still a democratic republic?
- Can the GOP win by losing Georgia? – but our freedom is not a game and when we lose it, we may win an election but we rarely get the freedom lost back.
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- Border / immigration
- November Illegal Alien Apprehensions Fall Slightly amid 7-Year High
- 36 Illegal Aliens Apprehended in Packed Texas Stash House near Laredo
- Mexican Drug Cartels’ Global Reach Mirrors A Multinational Company
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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 12/14/2020 (pdf) – 23,911* deaths & “active cases” of 272,933 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about half of 2/3rds of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy.
- WuFlu numbers in Texas do not justify erosion of freedoms
- Data: Hospitals underwhelmed by 2nd COVID wave, as they were with 1st
- Amid fears of overwhelmed medical systems, data shows ample hospital capacity nationwide
- Lubbock-Area Hospitals In A Race Against The Clock
- The vaccine is coming, but will Texans take it?
- Pfizer’s COVID vaccine delivered to San Antonio
- Long-term care facilities to receive vaccine
- FDA releases fact sheet on side effects, possible allergic reactions to Pfizer vaccine
- COVID-19 vaccine could end the pandemic, but here’s why millions of people plan to skip it
- Starr County announces new shelter-in-place orders, local leaders taking precautions
- A Houston-area doctor treated COVID-19 patients for months. Then he became infected. – so have many others and it happens with flu and other disease
- Fines hit $1.2 million for New Jersey gym owners who’re staying open amid virus mandates
- 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.
- If I get the COVID-19 vaccine, do I still need to wear a mask? – guess what the answer will be
- United Airlines boots family off of plane due to toddler refusing a mask
- Tarrant Co. Commissioner Records Show Little Support 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
- Study: Children are so immune to COVID-19 that even after extensive exposure they test negative
- Texas Education Agency takes abuse of COVID “emergency” to new lows
- School districts react to TEA’s decision to hold STAAR testing this year
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- Business/Economy
- Permian counties account for Texas’ top five for oil production
- Gas Prices Go Up Slightly in Lubbock and Across the State
- Major Google outage denies access to millions, prompts flood of memes online
- Indonesia & SpaceX considering launchsite there
- Three Brothers Bakery founder Sigmund Jucker dead at 98
- Welcome to Texas, Toyota, CBRE, HPE, Oracle and Elon Musk – Now start voting Republican!
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Black ministers’ message in South Dallas: We need our police
- Cleveland Indians to change team name after 105 years, more
- Crowd demands justice in La Marque Police shooting death of Black man
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Texas Prison Gang Leader Who Received Commuted Sentence from Obama Charged Again, Say Feds
- Anti-Wimp: House sitter fatally shoots hammer-wielding intruder
- Man dies in north Abilene fire overnight
- Teen dies in structure fire in Midland County
- Odessa: 4 injured after intoxicated driver strikes truck head-on
- Odessa: Two charged in fatal stabbing
- Edinburg football player who blindsided referee ‘sorry for what happened’
- 2 Montague County teens arrested in connection with ‘Forever’ statue theft
- Victim identified in Saturday’s homicide in Wichita Falls
- Police: Stolen SUV leads police to arrests
- Police: Uncle puts nephew in stitches after hug
- Suspect leads trooper on wild Wichita Co. chase
- 2 killed when helicopter crashes into field near Colorado City
- Man accused of threatening to ‘shoot up’ north Abilene Walmart
- San Antonio bum rescued from trash truck after driver hears his screams
- Georgetown man killed in single-vehicle rollover near Ozona
- Missing 69-year-old man found dead, Irving police say
- Man arrested for swinging golf club at pregnant woman
- Sudan toddler killed in crash, two others seriously injured
- Lubbock FR fights apartment fire in SW Lubbock
- Lubbock police confront man with large knife, struggle, arrest and robbery charges follow
- RIP: Charley Pride, groundbreaking country music star, has died at age 86
- Father slain while unloading groceries in north Harris County driveway
- Teen arrested in shooting of ex-girlfriend in Cypress
- One man dies after rollover auto-pedestrian crash in Peñitas
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- Local government
- Abilene Mayor Anthony Williams a finalist for City Manager position in Washington State – he’s figured out where the money is!
- Abilene council to look at cuts, adjustments, new fees – new fees? Of course.
- Wichita County leaders approve 2021 payments to VFDs
- Dixon: Midland ISD receives 36 superintendent applications
- Odessa City Councilmember abstains from vote on life insurance services due to conflict of interest
- El Paso Mayor Dee Margo loses reelection bid to Oscar Leeser
- Austin earmarked $73.4 million to combat homelessness; $31 million has yet to be spent
- Austin Council Runoff Elections See Astonishing Number of Mail-In Ballots
- Will New City Hall Hike Fort Worth Taxes?
- Tarrant Co. Commissioner Records Show Little Support for Mask Mandate
- Harris County sees first election under new management
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tuition Promise Fund and Texas Match the Promise Foundation Webinar
- TTU Researchers Double Cotton Yields With Genetic Modifications
- Texas Tech confirms Yost out as OC, Matt Wells to return at head coach
- Sen. Cruz Delivers Virtual Commencement Address for Texas Southmost College
- How a Baylor pilot study on rural hunger distributed 40M meals across the country this year
Pratt’s post for 12/14/2020
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