Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much to detest about the Flock surveillance camera company and its odd utopianist founder as well as many reasons governments should not allow the private firm’s cameras to be recording all of our movements. Why would anyone believe the firm takes seriously data privacy when it didn’t even care enough to be properly licensed in Texas? Texas says Flock surveillance violated state law over licensing issue.

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Oil and gas rig count falls despite high prices.

Lieutenant Governor Patrick releases more charges to interim Senate committees.

Perry’s Steakhouse Ordered to Pay $21.2 Million for Tip Theft– and Mr. Perry himself is on the hook, no corporate veil protects. All business that involve tips should read this.

Dallas County jury awards $1.1 billion in child abuse case against stepfather tied to early Humble Oil fortune.

We remember the massacre of Texans at Goliad. For podcast listeners, here is Brian Burns’ great song Goliad.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Census Bureau has released new numbers and while Texas urban areas continue to grow, a bit slower, Dallas County actually lost residents. People, and businesses, keep choosing to move to the exurban areas over the Democrat dominated, and poorly run, core cities. “Among some of the largest metro areas, the fastest-growing counties tended to be on the outer edges, a pattern especially pronounced in Texas,” the Census Bureau reported today.

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.

Texas House of Reps. leader, founder of the BurrowCrat coalition, Dustin Burrows released a very long list of interim study charges for House committees. He also created three new committees – and the unwieldy bureaucracy of the Texas House just grows and grows so that enough members get fancier titles and a little more budget money.

Embattled Johnson County sheriff to be arrested for aggravated perjury in connection with sexual harassment allegations.

Wichita Falls lawyer among those discipline by the Texas Bar.

Fifth Circuit revives homebuilder’s Sherman Act antitrust suit against Mansfield. Mansfield has acted as a monopoly outside its own city limits in the often abused extraterritorial jurisdiction.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the campaign stack today including:

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Enmity between Hancock (Chief Clerk!) and Paxton blows up. (more) Frankly, Paxton’s office gave Hancock what he wanted and now he’s casting stones at the AG’s office for his own failure – I explain in the show.

The Corpus Christi water debacle gets saltier; effort begins to remove mayor.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out in the Texas Republican primary runoff race for U.S. Senate between Ken Paxton and ol’ John Cornyn. One might say about it: The more things change, the more things remain the same. Paxton is leading Cornyn and as expected has picked up the majority of Wesley Hunt voters. See the full breakdown from Quantus here.

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.

Anti-Wimp update: Incident leads to home invasion; homeowner was ready for action.

Federal court in Texas strikes down FinCEN’s horrible real estate surveillance rule that burdened title companies with big expenses and fines. Hub City Title’s Lee Williams discusses the issue with us.

Microsoft to rent data center expansion in Abilene from which Oracle backed away.

TEA orders public schools to suspend instruction and activities related to the nasty Cesar Chavez. Also, new leadership for Fort Worth ISD announced.

UNT to cut its leftwing Women’s and Gender Studies minor.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Democrat voters in San Antonio and Bexar County racists? Didn’t they know that they are supposed to vote in the Democrat primary election according to DEI principles? I examine the liberal hand wringing over Dems voting against black judges in Bexar County.

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 falls despite rising prices.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announces new chairmen of Senate standing committees, fills vacancies, and creates interim select committees. Patrick also sets up select committee on religious liberty.

Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla to Build Advanced Chip Factories in Austin.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I recently mentioned the recent Forbes magazine story on Michael Novogratz who ended up owning the little data center in very rural Dickens County. Well, it’s in the news in a big way today: Massive $3.5 BILLION expansion planned at data center in Dickens County owned by Novogratz’s firm Galaxy.

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.

More Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico Tales: Talarico called out for suggesting men in women’s sports is ‘far right conspiracy’ – said it wasn’t happening in Texas but of course it was.

More on the bursting of the César Chávez bubble. Lubbock’s Democrats want to rename the street after Huerta who was César Chávez’s enabler! (As I well covered in yesterday’s show.) Gov. Abbott says Texas will not honor the state holiday (that should have never been passed) and lawmakers should take it off the calendar.

4 Islamic schools admitted to Texas school choice program after suing.

Texas traffic stop under scrutiny after video shows woman’s arrest. In this case it appears, after watching all video, she is 100% in the wrong and is the one who “escalated” the situation needlessly.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: News from the campaign stack including more little Jimmy Talarico Tales:

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Texas Education Agency Investigating Islamic-Tied Charter School.

In Leftism, the ends always justify the means. They take such straight from Marx and in the César Chávez SCAM Dolores Huerta knew! Don’t give her victim status, she knew what ol’ C.C. was about and didn’t tell because it might hurt the “movement.” Scum all around. Texas Values had the best take on the scam’s disclosure: Texas Values Calls for Austin ISD to Restore Good Friday; Cancel Cesar Chavez/ Dolores Huerta Day Amid Child Sex Abuse Allegations.

Lubbock to get Chick-fil-A distribution center. Abilene regains United Express flights. Will connect to Denver and Houston.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The scam that was, and is, César Chávez, has come home to roost! Tear down those street signs that capitulating ignoramuses allowed themselves to be bullied into a few years back. The Left never cared that he was violently against both legal and illegal immigration, but now they care that he appears to have used his position of power to have sex with young girls and women. Chávez and his group were never anything other than power and money seeking thugs and that was long known to any who would look, even Leftists.

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.

Preposterous: Democrats and their front groups are upset that Texas is finally concurring with a Clinton-era law and refusing to issue occupational licenses to people who are not actually legal to work in the USA! They say it “punishes immigrants who try to work with the system.” That is beyond ridiculous as anyone here illegally or trying to work illegally is inherently themselves working outside of our system.

School choice in Texas has proven very popular as judged by applications for the funding slots. A judge has just ordered the application window remain open through 31 March due to a lawsuit filed by Muslims. Oddly, Pre-K seems to be a big demand which I think is often just parents wanting free childcare.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Forbes says 88 of the 989 billioniares in the USA are in Texas, including the world’s richest. A run down on who are some of these people.

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Funniest story of this last week spills over into this week: Lina Hidalgo says Houston rodeo revoked her ex officio title after dispute. Now, Harris Co. Commissioner Tom Ramsey calls for Judge Lina Hidalgo to resign.

Harris County Commissioners to Consider Pro-Union Policy for County Employees. Another job for legislators – stop this for all local governments.

Lubbock city council races set for May 2nd election. A special election will be needed for District 4 from which Brayden Rose resigned. Our old friend Gary Boren has announced he will run for the District 4 seat.

A great piece on the crown prince of Iran’s Lubbock connection. He was living in Lubbock when the Islamic revolution took place.

Texas Lottery scandal followup: How Australian gamblers took down the Texas lottery for $US95 million. Gambler ‘The Joker’ confirms he bankrolled 2023 Texas Lotto operation.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Because Trump announced it, the Hearst newspapers are down playing, even belittling, the planned $300 billion, yep, with a “B”, refinery at the Port of Brownsville. Such a massive investment is transformational for the Rio Grande Valley as well as Texas and it will mainly refine West Texas Intermediate crude. It would be the first new, and modern tech, refinery in the county in almost half a century. But note how hard the Houston Chronicle goes to downplay it all: Trump’s $300B Texas refinery project draws skepticism from experts. (Note how light the story is on these supposed “experts!”)

Oil and gas drilling rig count down this week in Texas.

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Local sales tax numbers are in for the March report. Look up your city here.

Funniest story of the week and yet I will likely not have time to cover it on the show: Lina Hidalgo says rodeo revoked her ex officio title after dispute.

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