The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Much reform has been accomplished on Texas’ local government property tax system but many exceptions that were needed to get bills passed need ending – especially the “hit ’em while they’re down” disaster loophole abused by local politicians. A new law takes effect next year that does tighten down the disaster loophole but only time will tell if it is enough.

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In the border/immigration news stack there is a story that is an example of anti-Trump hyperbolethat only works with voters because of decades of failed public education – it’s the proportionality problem as I’ve long called it.

Campaign finance numbers rolling in:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Will Texas Democrats once again flee the state to attempt to stop redistricting in the upcoming Special Session? If so, will leadership finally make them pay a serious political price for breaking the law and leaving?

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Told you so: Kerrville city manager says he had weather alerts turned off on his phone. We don’t have a warning system problem, overall. We have a pay attention to warnings problem. More of the same, a terrible mistake of judgement: Camp Mystic did not evacuate immediately after flood warning.

Told you so: TWIA Committee Recommends No Rate Change for 2026 Policiesdespite rates being “inadequate by 3% for residential coverage and 5% for commercial coverage.”

TX2: Steve Toth to challenge Dan Crenshaw in GOP primary – good. TX1: Former teacher educator running for East Texas seat in Congress as a ‘conservative Democrat’ – there is no longer such a thing.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Hearst story on a “largely forgotten” flood event says much including contradicting the media outlet’s extreme climate change narrative. I explain.

And another point to make related to all the stories like this: Before Camp Mystic expansion, FEMA took buildings off flood plain map, records show. When will people learn that government programs are rarely a reliable solution?

More heavy rain in semi-arid West Texas leads to more flooding last night and today. Many headlines.

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RIP: Great Texas artist David Adickes, dead at 98-years.

Special Session of the Texas Legislature is coming:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Warnings of warnings of warnings! How much is enough? How many systems are needed, layered on top of each other, to warn of weather and similar emergencies? At what point to individuals bear some responsibility for paying attention to known risks and warning systems that are have been in place for decades?

Government officials are not our parents or masters, well that is the Leftist view I concede, and those officials are not automatically at fault for decisions we take.

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image via facebookCity of Lubbock is facing a big budget shortfall and now, due to what I believe to be incompetent and irresponsible management in the trash department, taxpayers are out even more money!

Oil and gas drilling rig count falls, again.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott updates items on his Called Session of the Legislature list. Most are good but two are not. One is a cave to teacher unions and less accountability for public schools. The other is something that sounds good on the surface but in practice is bad policy for the public related to police.

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Hearst to now control the major newspapers of Texas’ four largest markets: Hearst buys the Dallas Morning News.

The wages of sin… State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Jasmine “Crocked” Crockett Holds Healthy Lead In Hypothetical 2026 Texas Democrat Senate Race, Shock Poll Shows – she’s not even running as of yet. What a kick in the —– to Beto, Castro, and Allred! She’d be good for the Texas GOP as the Democrat nominee. More: Must Be a Day That Ends in Y: Jasmine Crockett’s Claim About Biden vs. Trump Is BATS**T Even for Her.

“Climate change” blamed for worsening Guadalupe River flooding – these so-called “experts” as well as media people who amplify them have little to no credibility. All they offer is assertions but not one model they have has ever come close to accurate predictions of what they claim thus they are closer to Druids dancing around a poll than to science.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Not only have the feds, under Trump, stopped objecting to Texas’ 1000-foot floating barrier in the Rio Grande, DHS has announced it is going to build 17-miles of floating barrier from Browsnville to the Gulf of America– and all using money left over from an appropriation in FY 2021 for border security that the Biden Administration didn’t spend.

Also, Secretary Rollins: ‘No Amnesty’ for Illegal Alien Farm Workers.

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Local government sales tax numbers releasedby the Office of Comptroller – up from July of 2024. Look up your city here.

Governor Abbott order flags at half-staff to honor flood victims. More than 170 missing, at least 118 dead.

San Antonio-area voters have created their own problem that may end their moniker of “Military City U.S.A.” They’ve been electing far-Left Marxists like Greg Casar and Joaquin Castro to Congress and local far-Left people to run the city and county.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After failing, in 2007, to well clarify the reach of the Johnson Amendment, the IRS has now joined plaintiffs asking a federal court in Texas to stop enforcement of the horrible restriction on political speech aimed mostly at churches and pastors. Sadly, many have used the un-American LBJ-sponsored legislation as an excuse to conform Christ’s Church to the world instead of working to move to the world to the way of God.

Here is a very good background piece on the Johnson Amendment which was seemingly written by LBJ to frustrate his political opponents.

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DEI marches on at Baylor University and at the City of San Antonio.

Secretary Rollins: ‘No Amnesty’ for Illegal Alien Farm Workers.

DHS: San Antonio City Council Candidate Calls for Shooting ICE Agents. 10 arrested, police officer shot in neck after alleged coordinated attack on Texas ICE detention facility.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A natural disaster hit Texas at just the wrong time on the calendar and wrong time of day from our perspective. The disaster is already exposing who are the real adherents of “hate” and our arrogance that we can be “in control.” Some go dark at such times, others reflect the light of Christ that testify to our capability to go good. I want to thank the Christian faith of Tavia Hunt, wife of the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, for her witness at this terrible time (click to read.).   You can find links to many of the stories I cover on the flooding today here.

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Border news:

Oil and gas rig count fell last week in Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: 15 suspects, including former Texas House candidate and Bexar Co. Democrat chairman have now been indicted in vote harvesting investigation despite media telling us election fraud almost never happens. These latest indictments were handed down earlier this week and yet I didn’t see the story anywhere else in Texas media. If you don’t report it, you can claim it doesn’t happen….

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More than 100,000 illegal alien patients sought care after Texas hospitals were required to ask immigration status. It may be a small percentage of patients but it is big money costs to all. You can click each county on the map in the story for local numbers.

Former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg looking into run for governor‘s office, sources say – it would be good for the GOP to have him as the Democrat nominee as he’s a way-out-there loudmouthed Leftist.

A good update on possible redistricting: Texas Republicans Urge Abbott To Add Redistricting to Special Session.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A story from today’s press review demonstrates why Democrats and Republicans are NOT a “uniparty.” On spending, maybe you can make a partial claim on such but it is universal to all elected government, all places. However, on governance, which is often the most important part, the two parties are at very opposite poles.

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Texas Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $4 Billion in June, up from June of 2024.

TWIA is still underfunded by ratepayers.

Ex-Texas governor’s energy firm buys gas turbines for ‘unprecedented’ Amarillo-based grid – beware, Toby Neugebauer is partner in this deal.

FAIL: ‘Sick-of-ICE, Sick-of-Trump’ in San Antonio Fizzles — Less than 80 People Attend.

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