Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Oh! Now the open border and illegal immigration is an "emergency." After calling us racists, bigots, and xenophobes for years, NYC declare an emergency over the subject - sort of.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Much on oil & gas. Biden goes to enemies to get more oil while working to reduce the productivity of U.S. oil and gas production. Congressman Pfluger says policy should be Odessa over OPEC and Midland over Moscow.O'Rourke says he'll somehow make marijuana legal in Texas if elected governor. Meanwhile Biden announces he'll let federal prisoners convicted on pot charges out of prison.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton gets court win over Biden Administration rules attempting to force “gender” fluidity upon Texans. Plus, Texas argues an important case at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today. LULAC sued over SB1111 which simply makes sure people are registered to vote in the precinct in which they reside – why is LULAC against this unless it wants people voting where they do not reside?Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.DACA declared illegal and the Democrats, who could have easily at multiple times solved the problem by changing law, continue to play these so-called “Dreamers” and blame Republicans for their plight. El Paso, a Democrat-led city, busing thousands to NYC and other locations yet the press doesn’t equate such, generally, with the state doing the same. And, more in the border stack.O’Rourke and Texas Democrats see the polls are bad for them so they’ve decided to go all-out anti-personal safety and anti-Second Amendment for gun control and blaming Republicans for school shootings? I wonder what Republican is the cause of the mass school shooting in Thailand today?And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Stench of local government: Trial over Amarillo’s end-run around taxpayers to rebuild its civic center is underway. Also, Fort Worth’s city manager in hot water for taking private jet trip with folks with business before the city. And, transportation outfit setup by Austin seems to be spending much more money on itself than implementing the city’s giant long term transport plan.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Three important Second Amendment stories in the stackPolling and other campaign news.Border news including more “hypocrisy” from the Biden Administration.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court began its fall term of hearing argument this week and several cases on the docket are important to Texas and Texans. Moore v. Harper and Sackett v. EPA are two big examples. I’ll explain about the theory the “independent state legislature” when it comes to elections for federal office.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.The Alamo Trust acquires major collection of artifacts, artwork by Donald Yena.Texas sales tax take up 17.2% over September of 2021. That does not mean the retail sector is doing well. In fact, spending on restaurants and similar have not even kept up with inflation.Good news: Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Opening Prayer, Chaplain Program Upheld by Fifth Circuit.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: While the governor race debate Friday night was as dull as I predicted, saving you from having to endure it, the so-called “fact checkers” at Texas media outlets were even more predictable – to the point of absurdity.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Governor Abbott appoints John P. Scott, a Texas Tech graduate, as the new Chief of School Safety and Security within the Texas Education Agency.Another Texas rocket firm gets to orbit. Many items in the border news stack including that a source says confirmed “gotaways” in the federal fiscal year just ended were 599,000 – that’s 1,500 per day!And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com 

Chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Lubbock Chapter, Victor Flores joins me for a Pratt on Texas Podcast-Extra.Victor was born in Mexico and was brought to Texas by his mother when he was a child. He was a beneficiary of the amnesty that was signed by President Ronald Reagan and is truly an American success story.Among his many business interests is the Lubbock Pratt on Texas affiliate Walk by Faith Radio, KWBF, 98.7 FM and 1420 AM.After stories of Victor's young years, we spent much time on immigration policy and the border.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: With polls showing no significant undecided likely voters left in the Texas governor race, Abbott and O’Rourke “debate” on TV tonight. Why, all of the sudden, is O’Rourke so worried that there is no live audience for the debate when he agreed to such months ago? Could it be that his message is so worn our Leftist that he needs shouters in the crowd to generate excitement?And some Lefties have a fairly good drinking game for the debate.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Oil and gas rig count, petro and other economic news of Texas.Another Leftist media hit piece out on A.G. Ken Paxton, this time from the reliably anti-conservative AP.Texas gets a win at the 5th Circuit related to cleaning up voter rolls.Victor Flores talks about the upcoming Republican National Hispanic Assembly, Lubbock Chapter Annual Hispanic Heritage Gala.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Harris County’s 2 Republican commissioners are playing hardball in fighting for taxpayers and so are the Leftist Democrats there. Isn’t it shameful that many of your local GOP nominated officials will not truly go to bat for you opposing tax increases when they don’t even have to worry about the consequences from local Democrats with power?Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Latest Quinnipiac poll lines up with others except it shows the GOP (Abbott by proxy) most trusted on gun related issues.How can, after claiming such dire financial damage due to the big Texas freeze, San Antonio’s CPS Energy now be so over loaded with cash that it has to hand out big rebates to customers? I think it shows that while the costs were real to some in the big freeze, there was also a lot insincere bickering.More border related new including a big expense by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News that was a complete bust.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com 

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The Court of Criminal Appeals rules against the legislature in upholding its earlier ruling that the state constitution does not allow the legislature to delegate prosecution of election crimes to the Office of Attorney General. This law was passed when Democrats had a firm hold on the legislature in 1985. Yet today, the press stories are all that this is a court strike down of A.G. Ken Paxton – do these dream of Paxton?Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Border news stack just shows that things keep going from disastrous to more disastrous with even little toddlers being used in the human smuggling the porous border so easily allows. Also, an inspector general audit says ICE wasted $17 million on hotels to not house illegal foreign nationals through a company with a no-bid contract whose executive for federal contracts had been a Biden Administration official.TX15, Beto Pancho and Lefty college students, and more from the campaign trail.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas press and other liberals and Leftist Democrats so viscerally hate Attorney General Ken Paxton they are now cooking up absurd stories about him. Full comment in the show. His opponent is a radical Leftist.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.New polls out yesterday and today show fake Hispanic Robert Francis O’Rourke (Beto Pancho) gaining no ground on Abbott. Latest poll shows what I explained when this journey began: O’Rourke comes with too high of a built in “unfavorability rating.”Port of Houston making big gains as shipments move to the Gulf of Mexico and East Coast ports due to problems in the west. Also, Texas manufacturing, service, and retail sectors are now facing problems.Democrats tried to use a special meeting of the State Board of Education yesterday to insert Leftist tripe in the social studies curriculum. The effort failed.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com