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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A little-reported, yet, news story out of free China, Taiwan, is huge for Texas’ future. Also, as predicted Saks is destroying the Texas-based culture of Neiman Marcus by closing the corporate offices in Texas and closing the flagship store in downtown Dallas!

Also in the key for Texas business stack: Texas Oil Export Port To Get Trump Team’s Blessing.

And much Texas space news including:

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.

Did Lubbock’s state rep. Dustin Burrows use our taxpayer money to buy the Democrat votes he used to become Speaker of the House? That question and others are being asked today of the Republican elected by a majority of House Democrats and a minority of House Republicans.

Texan Brooke Rollins, the new U.S. Secretary for Agriculture, is looking to reform SNAP welfare with Robert Kennedy, Jr. in a great way sure to cause much distress from the Left.

Much border and illegal immigration related news in the stack today including: New head of Border Patrol swears in National Guard, DPS who can arrest immigrants.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Lieutenant Governor and others have a ridiculous idea that Texas should spend big taxpayer dollars to import Hollywood into Texas. Not only is this wrong and nothing but corporate welfare that doesn’t payback reliably, we should have the opposite policy of keeping much of the Hollywood machine out of Texas!

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.

Odessa’s mess foisted on it by the non-conservatives and civic cheerleaders.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Stops Rad­i­cal Abor­tion­ist from Unlaw­ful­ly Sup­ply­ing Dan­ger­ous Drugs to Kill Unborn Babies

Oil and gas rig count rises.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate held hearings in which more of the scandal plagued Texas Lottery was exposed – see below. Also, the Senate passed major property tax relief.

Meanwhile, a month into the 140-day legislative session, BurrowCrat chief Dustin Burrows finally named House committees (that leaves much of the power in the hands of the same old Straus/Bonnen/Phelan crowd) and then the body voted to take another “vacation!” But don’t think they did absolutely nothing in the House, they found time to meet for 48 minutes on Tuesday and hosted a Pagan “prayer” from one of the Leftist members.

Lottery scandal:

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.

TPPF Secures Victory in Money v. San Marcos at the Fifth Circuit for property owners.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate continues to work while House members sit around collecting generous per diem checks. Today the Senate was working hard on much need bail reform, reform that has been thwarted by the House for several sessions. Lt. Gov. Patrick spoke to the press today and made it clear that this is an item that is of top importance to him and the Senate and for which he is willing to play “hardball.”

Also, related to the Legislature: High costs of wind and solar electric generation variability are being passed on to us, ratepayers, instead of those who cause the costs.

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.

There are some extremely surprising numbers and variability in today’s local city sales tax numbers. Top 20. Look up your city here.

Harris County’s jail remains out of compliance since 2022 and the Commission on Jail Standards wants the attorney general’s office to force compliance. Note that Harris County’s Democrat leadership has money for all types of welfare and other projects but none for the basics of government.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate is already working on big priority items while the House, almost a month into the session, has not even appointed committees as of Noon today. While the House dawdles, a senate committee has passed out to the full senate that body’s property tax relief plan for the 89th Session.

Also we take a look at Senator Sparks’ bill on moving all bond debt elections to the November uniform election date.

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: Breaking into ex’s apartment proves fatal in Fort Worth.

More illegal immigration news including extreme hypocrisy from the socialist Roman Catholic pope, Pope Francis.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Pubic education is no different from any other giant government bureaucracy, it’s full of wasteful spending, questionable priorities, and fraud and that does indeed include teachers from time to time.  The Texas teacher cheating scandal grows as 60 more public school teachers are added to an already big list of those being investigated for cheating to become certified teachers. More.

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.

How did very conservative Smith County (Tyler) become an unlikely sanctuary county for illegal aliens? By local Republicans electing Sheriff Smith, that’s how: “They Make Bond, They Get Out” Texas Sheriff Defies Abbott, Won’t Turn Over Illegals to ICE.

Under pressure from President Trump, Texas’ BurrowCrat Coalition founder, Speaker of the House Burrows, says the Texas House will pass school choice. Most everyone already expects that but the real question is: How much will the BurrowCrats muck up the good bill already passed by the Senate. Also, when will the House get to work on this or any other issue as Burrows hasn’t even appointed committees as of this morning.

State Sen. Creighton Slams Anti-School Choice ‘Rhetoric.’ Creighton, with help from other Republicans, attempted to correct the record on taxpayer-funded lobbying, per-pupil funding, and other topics related to school choice.

Oil and gas rig count up by one last week in Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Steven Balch, Ph.D. may be America’s original D.E.I. on campus fighter! He is also a regular Pratt on Texas listener which is a great honor to me. Today we talk about how he and others began the fightback against campus faculty Marxism and abuse in the 1980’s and the fruit of that labor that is beginning to be seen around the country.

Dr. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009. Balch received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1964. He received his master’s degree (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) in political science from the University of California in Berkeley. It was during the Berkeley riots that he became a conservative and he is now a Republican. 

Dr. Balch was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at the White House on November 15, 2007. The award cited him “for leadership and advocacy upholding the noblest traditions in higher education,” and went on to say that “his work on behalf of reasoned scholarship in a free society has made him a leading champion of excellence and reform at our nation’s universities.”

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.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, for the sixth time, the Texas Senate has passed a true school choice bill, SB 2. It’s now up to the House to get it passed and without mucking it up to much.

Note the ignorant race-baiting and contradictory statements of Democrat senators offered against the SB 2 in debate. It’s truly shameful but shows why they want substandard schooling as without such, they’d have a very hard time getting people to believe their political and social rhetoric.

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.

After girls’ sports investigation, Irving ISD faces legal threat over its  social media censorship of criticism. Also related: Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Documents from Dallas and Irving School Districts to Ensure That No Boys Are Competing in Girls’ Sports.

“Revolution” The Democrat elected officials and protesters openly use the word to describe what it is they are about so, why do so many cringe when I, and others, properly use the word to describe what is the Left’s goal in America?

Much border and illegal immigration news:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott’s proposal to require a super-majority of 2/3rs for voter-approval tax rate elections is right. I explain why one of the most common arguments against this type of clamp down on local government spending is without merit.

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.

A federal judge has told the Trump Administration that taxpayers must continue to fund legal services to illegal and other aliens in U.S. custody even though such folks do not have a “right” to legal counsel as do citizens – see anything wrong with that?

And, here’s another Texas Democrat still in denial of the crisis at the border and with illegal immigration: U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar of El Paso.

Another look behind the curtain at how D.C. and the deepstate has used our money to fund their media allies: Politico, NY Times Propped Up By Millions Of Dollars From US Government [from taxpayers!]

Texan Scott Turner confirmed as HUD secretary.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Abbott says we’ll pass school choice without the big handout, offered last time, to the ISD bureaucracies. The governor points out that when offered billions last time around the ISDs wouldn’t play ball so too bad. But the real reason we should not hand more big money to the administrative machines of government school districts is the continued failure of those schools to deliver good results: Texas Students’ Test Scores Shrink as Spending Grows.

Meanwhile, Democrats keep talking about “billionaires” instead of parents and students. Also, they maintain their position that students in really bad schools should continue to be captive to such with no real alternative.

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Texas sales tax receipts come in much stronger than last month.

Texas Secretary of State Office of Elections decertifies E-Pollbook system from ES&S.

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