Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Dishonest Democrat Colin Allred, the Left’s nominee to take on Ted Cruz for Texas’ U.S. Senator, is running an advert on border security trying to put his party’s border policies on the shoulders of Senator Cruz. It’s another in a long line of examples of how Democrats treat voters as being exceptionally ignorant and stupid. And, on the subject of the border and voting, Fox News carried this interesting piece: Texas sheriff candidate ‘shocked’ by growing Trump support in blue Hispanic border county.

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How did Texas do in the Olympics? Extraordinarily well!

Good words from former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on the National Athem: Let’s honor our national anthem with a traditional rendition.

About calls for Republicans to boycott the Leftist Texas Tribune’s little political festival in Austin – go where the people most need to hear our message. It reminds me of the long controversy of Bill Buckley’s writings appearing in Playboy Magazine.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: “Coalition media” is not just one-sided biased, its members are often players in the political game as I’ve long explained. Sherry Sylvester writes about a Texas story that I covered that demonstrates this activism by media propagandists – a story on school choice.

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Webb County’s tax assessor office closed by the state for retraining – the office has been at high risk status for several years not following state law on vehicle title and related processes.

RIP: Kathleen Hartnett White – a good servant of Texas and dedicated Christian.

Oil and gas rig count rises slightly in Texas.

Gov. Abbot orders hospitals to track and report expenses for providing healthcare to illegal aliens.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A big stack of the “stench of local government” stories all out of today’s press review (there are so many I’ve set aside over the last couple of weeks that we could do hours on the subject:)

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Texas A.G. Ken Paxton’s inves­ti­ga­tion Into Act­Blue yields coop­er­a­tion on donor cred­it card identification. More. More.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much campaign news today including a big Democrat endorsing Ted Cruz for re-election; another Democrat name changer to appeal more to Hispanics on the ballot; Abbott makes a prediction on picking up Texas House seats, and; more on what a Leftist disaster is Kamala Harris and her incompetent V.P. pick Tim Walz:

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Local city sales tax numbers are out.

More evidence Texas Dems and teacher unions have no true interest in improving actual public education.

Judge overturns Hidalgo Co. Democratic Primary election.

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Playwright, songwriter, and performer Chip Polk discusses his original play The Reckoning which is running at the Ragtown Gospel Theater in Post, Texas.

Learn all about the Ragtown Gospel Theater here: https://ragtown.com/

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: If Texas were still its own country, it would be in the Top 10 in the world in Olympic medals at this point of the Paris Games! Great piece at WFAA: How many medals have Texas athletes won at the Paris Olympics?

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Local government officials and local media outlets continue the property tax disinformation campaign as governments propose new tax rates for next year’s budgets. Lubbock’s city manager and KCBD’s story is typical as is the KRBC piece on Taylor County.

More than you’ll get from legacy media on Kamala Harris’ leftist Veep pick:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Houston Chronicle and its editorial board used Hurricane Beryl as a platform and reason to disparage Texas Republican leadership going so far as to saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick failed the people. Today, in a very long four-page editorial, those same Houston Chronicle liberals do something you rarely see: They admit they were wrong, very wrong.

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 lawsuits and push to get air conditioning in all Texas prisons continues. The comments of the head of TDCJ may, or may not, win favor with legislators.

Just in time for the election: Biden Administration Pauses Federal Parole Program Flying Foreign Nationals Into U.S.

A fine example of the fact that the lies of society are just that, lies. Our top performing people are church goers and believing, practicing Christians: One Church, Two Astronauts. How a Texas Congregation Is Supporting Its Members on the Space Station.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans are beginning to tarnish the Texas Miracle as they incrementally roll back fiscal discipline one legislative session at a time. Club for Growth’s new report shows what many of us have noticed but legislators don’t want to hear: Spending discipline has gone lax in both the Texas House and Texas Senate.

Texas Public Policy Foundation has a good summary of what the latest Legislative Budget Board report says: Bigger in Texas: Sizing Up the State’s Finances.

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California’s Democrat policies finally force native-Chevron to leave the once Golden State for downtown Houston, Texas.

Oil & gas rig count falls and Texas sales tax collections remain flat, growth less than the inflation rate, signaling economic slow down.

Key ruling on redistricting and the Voting Rights Act from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Galveston County case will slow Leftist moves to systematically put Texas under Democrat control.

Comment on why voters were ready to abandon Joe Biden but willing to support the same policies with Cackling Kamala Harris.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two wins for Texas (and the country) on the border and illegal immigration front: New York’s state supreme court tells New York City that it cannot stop Texas, or anyone else, from bussing migrants to the city citing well-known precedent from SCOTUS in  Edwards v. California. Secondly, Texas has prevailed over the Biden-Harris Administration requiring the Executive Branch to carry out the law duly enacted by Congress, and funded, to build the border wall and other barriers.

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Texas sues the feds over the ridiculous decision to put the dunes sagebrush lizard on the endangered species list.

Another example of who Democrats are and how they lie: Even though the state takeover of Houston ISD is already showing measurable signs of improvement for poor and minority students, Texas Democrats and teacher unions want it all stopped and everything returned to its failed status but with more money of course.

Remember: Annual property tax misrepresentation season is underway!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Politicians dig in deeper on CenterPoint Energy and its alleged poor performance after the last hurricane to hit Houston. There is much too this story and a big part of what is missed is the problem of non-competitive government sanctioned monopolies; the PUC and the type of people appointed to it, and; the pass-through cost system all tied up in utility regulation.

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The “weird” campaign of 2024 and Democrat hypocrisy on “Democracy!”

They’re back again in Lubbock: Same overfunded people claiming the city needs a Visitor Center and justifying such by how many visitors are coming regularly. If they already come then why do you need a glorified free bathroom facility for them? They’re already there! It’s like spending big money to reinstall payphone boxes all over town.

Houston’s closed-case police scandal shows what you get when you run government with identity politics, or DEI. It also shows why all bureaucracies need constant watching, monitoring, and auditing.

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