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Our Lone Star story of the day: House leadership engineers a bill massacre, including many conservative priority bills, by running out the clock at midnight this morning. First legislative deadline of Texas session slashes 80% of bills in House. Texas House deadline leaves hundreds of bills as casualties.

But, of course, the Burrows BurrowCrat leadership team found time to spend passing this law that has nothing but symbolic affect: Bill Decriminalizing Homosexual Conduct Passes Texas House.

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Texas Senate Committee Passes New Version of Public School Funding, Teacher Pay Raise Bill.  Winners and losers in the Texas Legislature’s school funding plan.

Other items from the 89th Legislature:

Texas Labor Market Achieves Five Consecutive Months of Record High Jobs with More Than 37,000 Added in April – click for local unemployment rates.

Baker Hughes’ North America Rig Count Report – Texas loses the two gained last week.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today is the first kill-the-bills-day in the Texas House. I comment on the following:

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Reaches Agreement Requiring Travis County to Abide by the Texas Open Meetings Act and Other Government Transparency Laws

Mexico pays some water owed to U.S., a very small amount, before the October deadline.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again the Texas House and its Speaker appointed committee chairman are killing important legislation – with the clock. Why do they not have the integrity, or guts, to just admit they oppose certain bills? Well, because they have neither integrity or guts.

But even with the sad reality of the same old bill killing going on, and much of it from Rep. Ken King, many good bills are making it through.

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San Antonio mother accused of aiding in son’s threats against local school.

Five Texas cities make national cheapests cities in which to retire list. Amarillo, Brownsville, El Paso, Corpus Christi, and Lubbock.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Illegal use of foreign drivers is killing small Texas trucking companies, others are using the drivers illegal to underpay for labor, and we’ve had two decades of national emergency on the border importing 10 to 20 million illegal aliens into the country. Yet with all of that, Dumb, Deaf, and Blind – Drew Darby, Stan Lambert, and Ken King – voted for a Democrat’s bill that has the State of Texas creating a guest worker program if the feds give permission. See: Texas House Rejects Mexican Guest Worker Program; 9 Republicans joined Democrats in an attempt to create the guest worker program.

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U.S. Inflation Stays Cooler Than Expected, Prices Up 2.3%, Smallest Annual Increase Since February 2021. Oh, and: It Turns Out That Even More of Joe Biden’s Jobs Creation Numbers Were Fake.

Qatari 747 jumbo-jet Trump wants as Air Force One is in San Antonio.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Supreme Court ruling last week is important in reminding local governments that the Legislature is in control of what they can and cannot do. It is also an important private property rights ruling: Texas Supreme Court Overturns Rulings in College Station Extra Territorial Jurisdiction Case.

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From the 89th Texas Legislature:

Senate Leaderhip Fund poll shows Cornyn getting creamed by Paxton – as all other polls has shown. And, a far-Left union Democrat says he is running in TX19 to ultimately challenge Rep. Jody Arrington.

Secretary Rollins Suspends Live Animal Imports Through Ports of Entry Along Southern Border, Effective Immediately. Sheinbaum calls US halt on Mexican cattle imports unfair. 

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much news out of the 89th Legislature in Austin including:

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U.S. Rep. Jody Arrington (TX19) has a fine opinion piece in The Daily Caller: America Cannot Have Free Trade Without Fair Trade.

Oil and gas drilling rig count – Texas up this week.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A good concealed carry bill related to election polling places passes the Texas House. And, the “State Fair” bill has moved out of the Senate and needs a vote in the House.

The Texas House, short of time, finds time to vote on a Democrat’s bill to setup a state “guest worker” program but has not found time to move priority immigration items such as mandating e-Verify.

Senate’s time at school for prayer and scripture bill finally gets a hearing in a House committee.

And the radical Left really hates this one: Bill to further restrict sexually explicit material from public school libraries gets House hearing.

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Taylor County’s judge and commissioners trending in the right direction on property tax breaks for a wind energy farm.

Libs protesting at the illegal alien holding center in Anson miss the only point they have which is due process. People who entered our country without being subject to proper due process to get in, don’t really deserve much of any due process to be deported.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Six indictments and arrests for alleged vote harvesting in South Texas follow a “multi-year investigation.” But don’t worry, the media narrative remains: Vote cheating happens rarely, if at all. And, investigating allegations of such remains a way to harass minorities.

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Local city sales tax numbers released by the Comptroller – report is much better than last month. Find your city’s numbers here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker of the Texas House Burrows, fires his general counsel and policy director. His holding the position to begin with shows the incestuous nature of the Austin power crowd and how they don’t even notice such anymore. These types of conflicts of interests, often through self-serving “power couples,” are all too common in Austin and Washington.

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Key bills are being held up by Rep. Ken King and pressure, from you, needs to be brought to bear.

House State Affairs Committee Members: 

 Also, pressure needs to be brought to the House Public Education committee to get a hearing and vote on HB 1313, banning taxpayer funded lobbying by school districts.

Watch: Reining in the Texas Association of School Boards.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House and Senate appear to have made a deal on property tax relief that, if it holds, will remove a time consuming issue from the limited time left in the 89th Session. Overall it is a good deal. Read more here and here.

Governor Abbott signed the landmark school choice bill, SB2, on Saturday. The unions are not happy: Texas AFL-CIO protests voucher program with banner at Governor’s Mansion.

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About Cinco de Mayo and why it’s good to celebrate a little!

Starbase, Texas is now a thing after SpaceX employees and residents vote to incorporate.

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