- Pratt’s charge to all good citizens for 2021
- State of Texas: ‘The public needs access to its government’ — balancing health and transparency at the Capitol VIDEO
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Releases Protocols for Opening Day of Texas Senate, more
- State Preservation Board outlines COVID protocols for reopening of the Texas Capitol set for today
- Texas House Administration sends members protocols to consider for their offices (pdf)
- A Conversation with Dade Phelan
- A Preview of Emergency Powers-Related Bills Filed Ahead of the 87th Texas Legislature
- The Texas Legislature session is almost here. GOP and local government lawmakers are ready for war.
- Taxpayer Funded Storage of Mysterious Art Collection Target of New State Legislation
- Landry: Looking ahead to the start of the state legislative session – the AJ has a multi-time loser Democrat advising readers what to expect! Laughable.
- Texas’ medical marijuana program is one of the most restrictive in the country. Advocates hope the Legislature will change that.
- What to possibly expect on the revenue estimate next week
- Texas Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $2.9 Billion in December, 5% less than Dec. 2019
- Texas Supreme Court blocks Austin, Travis County dine-in curfew
- AG Paxton Calls on Texas Supreme Court to Halt Unlawful City of Austin and Travis County Shutdown Orders
- AG Paxton Urges Third Court of Appeals to Halt Unlawful City of Austin and Travis County Shutdown Orders
- Fraud investigations block some Texas unemployed from getting their checks
- Planned Parenthood president: Saying abortion is a small part of what group does is stigmatizing – yeah, because it is about 95% of what they do!
- Webinar on Texas Prepaid College Tuition Plan and Scholarship Opportunities
- Abbott Appoints Three To San Jacinto River Authority Board Of Directors
- Governor Abbott Proclaims January 2021 Human Trafficking Prevention Month
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce Extension Of Emergency SNAP Benefits For January 2021
- Texas ‘wild pig wars’ leader assumes role in national task force
- Ike Dike plan is better but still not good enough
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Meet 7 new Texans in Congress
- Texans begin new congressional terms as fights over GOP attempts to overturn election continue
- Arrington, Pfluger, Jackson & Gonzales Start Congressional Terms
- A new proposal in the House of Representatives could eliminate gendered language from its rules
- ‘Super Spreader’ Speakership Election: Nancy Pelosi Allows Democrats to Break Quarantine to Help Secure Another Term
- Ports to Plains IH-27 Expansion Bills Die in Congress – just demonstrates how wasteful is Congress and what a joke “infrastructure” spending is.
- Pelosi proposes gender-neutral language for House rules, vote in Democrat-led chamber Monday
- Rep. Cleaver Closes Prayer for New Congress With ‘Amen and Awoman’
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- Presidential race / national politics
- GOP senators, led by Cruz, to object to Electoral College certification, demand emergency audit
- Sen. Ted Cruz Tells Critics of His Presidential Election Audit Idea to Calm Down
- Ted Cruz, 10 others to object to certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory
- Cruz on Fox News: We Have an Obligation To the Voters To Ensure This Election Was Lawful VIDEO
- Ad from anti-Trump PAC calls Ted Cruz part of ‘new Jim Crow caucus’ for challenging Electoral College – how the dishonest react to scrutiny
- Kevin McCarthy Announces Support for Challenge to Electoral College
- Donald Trump Challenges Tom Cotton: How Can You Certify ‘Wrong’ Election
- ‘Lack standing’: Rep. Gohmert’s lawsuit against Pence to overturn election results thrown out – another gutless ruling. We all have standing in such and a member of Congress should have indisputable standing.
- Rep. Tom McClintock: Congress Must Not Seize Power to Determine Presidential Election – false argument, Congress has a constitutional role
- Bernie Sanders Sides with Mitt Romney: ‘He Is Right’ in Blasting GOP Colleagues Who Plan to Object to Certification
- Media Freakout Over Leaked Trump Call With Georgia’s Raffensperger
- House Dems to FBI: Investigate Trump for solicitation of election fraud in Raffensperger call
- Responding to challenges of Biden’s victory, Chip Roy objects to seating of fellow representatives, more
- Republicans condemn ‘scheme’ to undo election for Trump
- MAGA Patriots Must Win the GOP Civil War
- A Legitimate Election Dispute Remains Pending Under Georgia Law Without a Hearing Date or Judge Assigned – a good example of how justice is being denied
- Data Scientists: Outright fraud in Georgia election VIDEO
- At Least 140 House Republicans Expected to Object to Electoral College Vote
- NY Mag’s Nuzzi: GOP Establishment Frustrated with Hawley — ‘He’s Not Some Moron Like Louie Gohmert’
- Why Democratic gains in the suburbs will outlast Trump
- Gen Z Republicans see new era for party after Trump
- Vulturous Charles Koch Reemerges to Oppose Trump’s GOP Influence
- Joe Biden Team Blocks Reporters from ‘Chatting’ During Virtual Press Conferences
- Biden Should Retain These Trump Policies to Keep America Great in 2021
- The useful idiots of TikTok
- A look at the sex-ed curricula being pushed by Democrats VIDEO
- Ted Cruz: ‘Best Answer’ to Voter Fraud Is to Win Georgia Runoffs by Insurmountable Margin VIDEO
- The Manufactured Consent of the Elites
- Do Black Lives Matter in the White Elite’s Civil War?
- VDH: Our grandees seem too exhausted, too guilty, or too ignorant to pass on and improve the civilization they inherited for others to come.
- Does anyone in D.C. care about the middle class?
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- Border / immigration
- Federal Court: President Donald Trump Has Authority to Bar Uninsured Immigrants from Admission
- Trump extends immigrant and work visa limits into Biden presidency
- 9 Migrants Escape Texas Human Smuggling Stash House 350 Miles from Border
- Mexican Coyotes Abandon 48 Migrants in Winter Storm near Border, 2 Dead
- Honduran Migrant Gives Birth on Mexico-US Border Bridge
- New Independent Drug Group Discovered in Mexican Border State
- Mexican Border State Shootout Confirms Breitbart Report on Cartel Tactics
- Sen. Cruz Applauds Trump Administration for Issuing Presidential Permit for Expansion of Pharr International Bridge
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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 01/04/2021 (pdf) – 27,917* deaths & “active cases” of 300,785 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy; Is US COVID-19 death count inflated?; Here’s how the media is misreporting COVID-19’s death toll in America
- WuFlu numbers in Texas do not justify erosion of freedoms
- Texas Supreme Court blocks Austin, Travis County dine-in curfew
- Austin won’t be allowed to restrict dining-in at restaurants, Texas Supreme Court says
- As skepticism runs rampant, Houston-area faith leaders call for vaccinations
- Harris County halts COVID-19 vaccine registration after granting access to non-qualified patients
- Fauci says mandatory COVID-19 vaccines possible for travel, school – do you think Dr. Faulty is getting Secret Service protection? I wonder.
- Calling Out the Fauci Administration
- New York assemblyman files bill to us COVID to put people in detention camps
- Cuomo: I’ll fine doctors up to $1 million if they vaccinate someone who isn’t eligible yet
- California City Will Remove Public Seating as Coronavirus Cases Spike
- Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger tests positive for coronavirus – but not ill
- Greek Church Tells Priests to Ignore Pandemic Closure Order – the Orthodox Church has spent the last 2 centuries of radical change proving it to be THE orthodox outpost of Christianity. Blessings upon them.
- Operation Warp Speed considers halving COVID vaccine to accelerate inoculation campaign
- Resistance to the COVID Vaccine Is Coming From a Surprising Sector — Frontline Healthcare Workers
- Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine next to seek emergency use authorization
- Austin-area Black leaders call for action on vaccine strategy
- ‘It’s Time For Us Patriots To Rise Up’: Bar Owner Leads Rally To Protest Possible 5-Year Liquor License Loss Over Indoor Service
- 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.
- Leftist media attempts to shame people into wearing masks
- Senator (and doctor) Rand Paul: Masks ‘Are All About Submission’
- Anti-maskers protested outside of Miller’s Cafe. Mayor Turner wants you to get lunch there – pro-freedom protestors
- 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
- Edinburg CISD board of trustees delays spring semester
- Texas school sports moved indoors for the winter. So did the coronavirus.
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- Business/Economy
- Texas Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $2.9 Billion in December, 5% less than Dec. 2019
- Baker Hughes oil & gas drilling rig report; up 2 in Texas, more
- Oil drilling in U.S. ends fraught 2020 at pre-shale levels
- Exxon signals historic fourth consecutive loss on demand hit
- Wrong-way bet on Covid is changing oil-trading industry forever
- The state of the global rocket industry in the 21st century
- Musk: SpaceX Super Heavy will land on launchpad, caught by launch tower
- Online vaping sales regulation bill harmful to small businesses, local vape shop owner says
- Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot shareholders approve merger
- Development Corporation of Abilene working to bring in large company to Abilene
- Permian Highway Pipeline now in service
- Brent Coon ordered to pay attorney’s fees in suit over ‘botched’ Deepwater Horizon oil spill claim
- Crackdown On CBD ‘Cowboys’ As Texas Farmers Harvest First Crop
- Hundreds of Google employees form union for entire company, a big tech first – I wonder if they’ll shut the servers down each May Day.
- Dallas Food Desert Grocery Store Closes – it’s not a “food desert” and the locals don’t support a full grocery store but socialists refuse to recognize such.
- H-E-B owners among richest families in US, according to Forbes – more wealthy Democrats
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Do Black Lives Matter in the White Elite’s Civil War?
- Large weekend protests in Minneapolis over police-involved death
- Coffee shop receives outpouring of support amid Black Lives Matter movement
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Hidalgo Co. SO: Man kills wife and mother-in-law on New Year’s Eve
- Starr County Sheriff respond to stabbing
- Boy, 8, and woman, 24, among wounded by apparent celebratory gunfire in Houston
- Bullets land after shots in the air New Year’s Morning in Lubbock
- Arlington parents thankful 6-year-old daughter is alive after bullet barrels through window on New Year’s Eve
- 2020 saw an unprecedented spike in homicides from big cities to small towns
- Wichita Falls sees no increase in fatal accidents for 2020
- Suspect in custody after shooting at Starrville Methodist Church in Winona leaves pastor dead VIDEO – armed pastor made a fatal mistake, he pointed a gun without being willing to immediately use it. I understand why but these are the type of mistakes for which there is no second chance. More
- Sheriff identifies pastor killed in East Texas church shooting
- 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Charged With Beating Mother to Death
- ‘I don’t ever recall a New Year’s Eve like this’: Arlington PD has busy overnight, investigating two homicides in first 40 minutes of 2021
- Arlington man arrested in connection to girlfriend’s New Year’s Day shooting death, Arlington police say
- Arlington police arrest 21-year-old man after 4-year-old boy died overnight New Year’s Day
- 3 people killed, 3 injured in violent start to 2021 in Dallas
- 3 Deputies Shot, 1 Woman Killed Outside Houston Nightclub
- Police: Beaumont Officer Shot Suicidal Man Who Opened Fire
- Ector firefighters safe after being trapped while battling mobile home fire
- Midland PD: Rollover along I-20 kills Midland man
- Odessa Fire Rescue saves dog from fire
- Odessa PD: Suspect flees after crashing into street light, elementary school wall
- Wichita Falls: Food service worker and inmate charged in cigarette smuggling scheme
- 10-car pileup reported in I-20 near Trent on New Year’s Day
- Woman arrested after allegedly striking disabled man with soap bar
- Man arrested for firing gunshots during Abilene bar fight
- Former Brownfield Mayor, GOP chairman, Brad Moore Killed in Car Accident
- City of Smyer issued fire equipment stolen from vehicle in Lubbock
- Following drive-by shootings in Lubbock, six arrested, weapons recovered
- LPD searching for suspects who robbed apartment, threatened tenant on New Year’s Day
- 1 arrested, 2 wanted after theft, chase in southeast Lubbock County
- Manor grassfire under control; no structures threatened
- Corpus Christi man dies in single-vehicle crash
- Driver Killed In High-Speed Crash Into Tree In Plano
- Tarrant County sheriff reports first in-custody death of year; 5 inmates die of COVID
- Texas golf coaching legend Guerrero dies at 96
- Gas station in Chapel Hill destroyed by overnight fire
- Vidor police looking for suspects in armed robbery of service station
- Man dead after crashing into back of flatbed truck in San Antonio
- Sheriff sends Anaqua Springs shooting deaths case back to investigators for more scrutiny
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- Weather
- New Year’s snowfall: Your pictures from across North Texas
- Texas driver stranded on I-20 for 14 hours
- Snow pictures from all over the Permian Basin
- Snow heralds New Year
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- Local government
- Abilene acting on development plans, mayor says, Looking 5 and 50 years ahead to city’s future
- Former Wichita Falls City Councilman dies at 92
- Texas County Official Suspect in Defacing Old ‘Negroes’ Sign
- Mize retires after more than 3 decades with Plainview FD
- Fort Bend County swears in African American sheriff for the first time in 150 years
- Waste gas from landfill will offset up to 75% of VIA’s bus fuel demand
- 10 problems with San Antonio’s police union contract and state law
- Citizen Victory: Controversial Dallas Police Memo Rescinded
- Harris Co: Taxpayer Funded Storage of Mysterious Art Collection Target of New State Legislation
- City of Austin reports allege ‘militarized’ mindset in Austin Police academy
- Abandoned south Austin railway could be restored to offer trail, transit options
- Does Fort Worth have too many apartments? Council members want moratorium on rezoning – socialism, it’s a matter for the markets only.
- Trophy Club creates position to deter juvenile crime, seek alternate solutions
- Longview makes progress on bond projects in 2020
- Roma police chief dies from COVID-19
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- Colleges & universities
- Webinar on Texas Prepaid College Tuition Plan and Scholarship Opportunities
- Steve Sarkisian named new UT-Austin head football coach
- Texas fires Tom Herman
- Texas Southern creates program to develop tomorrow’s bankers
- Odessa College aims for Vision 2030
- TTU: Medical Student Debt Acquisition, Repayment Focus of Doctoral Student’s Research
- A Homecoming for Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine’s Newest Faculty Member
- Aggies develop sanitary, hands-free door opener
- Texas A&M nets impressive Orange Bowl win over Tar Heels
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- Military
- Two female Army soldier deaths in Texas under investigation, one found shot on freeway
Pratt’s post for 1/4/2021
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