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Our Lone Star story of the day: The City of Abilene is awash in new money but still plans to hit residents with a property tax increase! Where is the morality, or ethics, in that?

Lubbock County commissioners still plan to save residents from a property tax increase but the county auditor and the county judge are kicking and screaming for a tax increase so they can continue to grow the local bureaucracy.

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Dallas Fed report says the Texas Service Sector “expanded in August” but its headline downplays it with “moderates.” You know it’s near election time because WFAA tried to play it down more with this headline: Is the Texas economy slowing down? What new Dallas Fed data reveals for local workers and consumers. Meanwhile: Manufacturing Boom: Factory Job Openings Soar To Three Year High.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico is an amalgam of most every confused social spasm of our nation’s unmoored youth and stuck-in-adolescence adult population since the years that brought the fully anti-American deconstructionist Obama movement to the forefront.

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Dallas Fed survey shows Texas’ manufacturing sector “accelerates” in August.

Governor Abbott jumps on the anti-Flock spy camera bandwagon. Welcome, even if it is much later than it should have been.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Supports Pause of 765-kV Transmission Line Buildout Pending Legislative Review

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Our Lone Star story of the day: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson was in Texas yesterday campaigning for Republican Congressional nominees and said that the Trump Agenda is on the ballot. But that may indeed be the problem with the redistricted seats where Trump won big two years ago, today Trump’s approval rating is terrible in these areas. Link to poll.

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Lubbock ISD trustees vote to raise property taxes on citizens instead of cutting spending.

Wildfire update. Ross Fire scorches 85,000+ acres, second-largest in North Texas history (we haven’t been able to accurately track the size of these things for very long.)

Oil and gas rig count rises this week in Texas but only by one.

The famed Texas Rangers, oldest profession law enforcement force in North America, get a new chief.

Federal judge dismisses Fort Worth Muslim’s lawsuit over principal reassignment.

PUC approves routes for first 765-kV power lines in Texas despite much objection.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Are “educational foundations” for public school districts just another way to cheat the school finance system and the court order behind such? Some legislators have awakened to such in the case of relatively small Barbers Hill ISD in Mont Belvieu which has a foundation with a corpus of about $250,000,000 and is rife with what appear to be conflicts of interest. Two good write-ups on yesterday’s hearing on the matter:

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Ross Fire, 80,000 acres, could be burning for ‘days and days,’ official says.

Midland County judge, Terry Johnson, suspended by state judicial conduct commission.

California loses another multi-billion-dollar giant to Texas as corporate exodus grows

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Good news for Taylor and Ector County taxpayers – your county officials are not raising your property taxes this next year. Overall, going on 20-years, taxpayers in Texas have been getting a raw deal from local governments, especially municipalities as city council folk have increased the size of government spending grossly beyond population and inflation. This story at The Texan gives a good summary of such looking at the cities of the Texas Triangle.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Over $1 Billion from Meta in Historic Settlement that Protects Texas Kids Online. Massive Meta settlement targets teenage social-media addiction.

The 87-year-old federal judge from New York needs to retire and go back to the Empire (formerly) State because he would be more comfortable living under Leftist Gov. Hochul: Texas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional again.

Gov. Greg Abbott wants three-year bachelor’s degrees in Texas. Governor Abbott Directs THECB To Develop Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Pathways.

Ross Fire in Texas grows to 80,000 acres as winds shift.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New statewide polling is out from UT/Texas Politics Project showing Republicans leading in all but the U.S. Senate race in August. U.S. House Speaker Johnson is in Texas this week stumping for Hispanic Republicans in key Congressional seats.

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Texas Appeals Court Holds District Courts Cannot Order New Appraisal Review Board Hearings.

Six Flags move corporate HQ back to Texas leaving North Carolina.

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to move forward with order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting | SCOTUSblog.

Abbott fights Minnesota lawsuit on ICE officer extradition. “Abbott said state officials are still investigating whether Christian Castro, who is being held in Cameron County Jail, can be classified as a fugitive because he didn’t flee Minnesota but was apparently reassigned to Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Democrat Party leadership attacks Lubbock Young Republicans claiming a term it used online is “racist.”

No amount of stretching language to fit a preconception allows me to see how “vote hard R this November” is racist or even objectionable to anyone, other than soft R’s! The term has been used for my entire life to describe a voter who votes in each GOP primary and votes Republican each general election. Sorry, Dems but I don’t live in the gutter you do so I am happily ignorant of why you say that voting “hard R” in November is a “deeply harmful racial slur.”

And notice the irresponsibility of the Lubbock media. At least three outlets ran the story but did not bother to explain (or even inquire?) how the term or phrase has racial undertones. If it isn’t obvious then it requires explaining otherwise you are just running baseless attacks.

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An example of how deeply embedded into our institutions is the concept of open borders and non-responsiblity immigration: 1st Circ. Says NH Witness Retaliation Is No Basis For Removal.

Cornyn: Texas to get $7.5 billion from border reimbursement fund. The last few lines are the best of the story!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: “God is not a Christian!” proclaimed Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico in a sermon delivered to his apostasy-riddled church in Austin. Not only was he overtly leftwing political in the sermon, he was repeatedly heretical event to the point of saying Christians are in fellowship with pagans and atheists.

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Texas oil and gas drilling rig count rises this week.

Texas unemployment rate at 4.5 percent in July; Texas leading the nation in job creation.

Scurry County judge elect, Russell Wall, accused of child sex crimes. This is undoubtedly political skullduggery from the social set of the incumbent county judge who Wall beat in the GOP primary, Dan Hicks. It is reported to me that the Scurry Co. Republican Party chairman is saying Hicks should be put on the ballot by the executive committee as he came in second – with no regard to a known incumbent being thrown out by GOP voters. Also, it has been reported to me at the judge who signed the arrest warrant is Dana Cooley who is married to Dan Hick’s son (this has not been independently verified by me.)

Carla Wyatt, embattled Democrat Harris County treasurer, to receive 30% raise!

Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Billed Feds for ‘Sex-Rejection’ Treatments on Minors.

Former Texas Lottery Boss Finally Appears in Court over $95 Million Scandal

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Cook Political Report moves the Texas U.S. Senate race to “toss-up.” Before you panic, you need to be aware of several things that I will explain.

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Am I always against government spending? No, there are some things that only government can and should do and those should be funded well with assurance of efficiency. Take this: TPPF urges SCOTUS to protect right to independent courts. TPPF is correct and the administrative state has been a wrong turn by congressmen who slough off their work to agencies. All deserve their day in a real court but that costs money and should be funded. Also, there is this story: Texas Appeals Courts’ Staffing Plea Collides With Cut Demands. Texas appeals courts run very lean and should get significantly more funding as the case load has grown – but all funding should provide for efficient service.

Paramount CEO David Ellison eyes Austin as potential new base after threatening to ditch California during antitrust battle.

Midland County judge Terry Johnson surrenders after indictment. He could have simply resigned.

How a Texas Student Blew the Whistle on a Rogue AI Hacking Attempt.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Filthy book, possible wasteful spending, and hiring foreign worker to teach Texas school children – both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor push policies to shape up Texas public schools:

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Marxist Texas Congressman Casar & aptly named Castro push municipalities to top working with the federal government to enforce immigration law. Face it, the Democrats are just as lawless and open border today as they were under Biden.

New Filing Details Human Smuggling Evidence Against ‘Maryland Father’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia – but the lying media purposefully skirts reporting on such.

With conservatives still dominating over the RINO county judge, Lubbock Co. commissioners court proposes No New Revenue Tax Rate.

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