Republican immigrant woman wins RGV Congressional seat | Lesson for all in waterless Odessa – Pratt on Texas 6/15/2022

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A Republican from the Valley will be the first Mexican-born U.S. Congresswoman as Mayra Flores wins special election to serve in Congress for TX34 until the end of the year.

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Mayor Joven gets it right with Odessa’s water outage: Basic infrastructure maintenance should have always been the highest priority. But, it isn’t anywhere because such is not politically “sexy” to office holders.

Caterpillar moving global HQ from Chicagoland to Irving, Texas.

Border news.

The Uvalde school massacre and the petulant tribal behavior of some politicians. Also, the Texas leader response doesn’t seem much better than that of the feds (see Monday’s show.)

Texas Supreme Court rightly rules on vote by mail “solicitation.”

U.S. Supreme Court wrongly rules on Indian reservation bingo in Texas.

And, other news of Texas.

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