Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Study of the Texas Republican efforts at property tax reduction over the past 3 legislative session, from a not-friendly-to-Republicans source, shows tax reduction has generally been very successful statewide. Read it here: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/26/texas-property-tax-cuts-analysis/

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Harris County District Attorney Ogg infuriates Houston’s Democrat Party political machine by preserving justice in handing a key case to the Texas Attorney General’s office.

More on the despicable pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT-Austin and elsewhere:

Lubbock’s voter turnout is almost double any May election for 20 years. Conservatives must get out and vote. See my Lubbock voter recommendations here.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: State Rep. Carl Tepper (HD84) joins us to discuss a major story out today from ProPublica and the Texas Tribune which shows that school districts are not complying with the law that says local governments must post candidate campaign finance reports online. Of the 35 districts spot checked, NONE, were complying with the law and worse yet, it seems many candidates in local elections haven’t even been submitting campaign finance reports.

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.

Press reports what many of us already knew: Wind, solar, and battery on the Texas ERCOT power grid could cause “immediate catastrophic grid failure.” This report is about the inverters these vendors use and how such systems have simply tripped off-line putting the entire grid in danger.

More on the arrests and breaking up of the Anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT Austin.

Lynn County hospital district bond issue: A Pratt on Texas Listener Club member has provided me with the hospital’s latest audit which showed “material” and “significant” weaknesses in its accounting.

See my Lubbock voter recommendations here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: An elected Democrat County Court-at-Law judge in El Paso let go the 100+ rioting illegal aliens that tried to breach the border wall claiming there was no probable cause for their detention! Fortunately the El Paso district attorney immediately took the cases to a grand jury and that jury issued indictments against the invaders.

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 named best state for business for a record-breaking 20th year – in a row!

Texas wins over state and national Democrats at the Supreme Court over universal mail-in voting as the justices refused to take up the case for consideration.

The filthy stench of “local government” is on full display in Granbury and Hood County in the Granbury ISD bond election.

See my Lubbock voter recommendations here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock faces a pro-marijuana use proposition (Prop. A) on the May 4th ballot. What of all the libertarian and other promises of the benefits of legal weed? Three words: Up in smoke. Read: Americans are watching legal weed’s promise go up in smoke.

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 Texas Supreme Court has issued a temporary block on Harris County’s lottery-style “guaranteed income” welfare scheme. The Attorney General is right about the unconstitutional nature of the program but many believe, and I’m one of them, that the same prohibition makes our “economic development programs” questionable too. There is nothing charitable about forced charity.

See my Lubbock voter recommendations here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Travis County’s far-left, Soros-backed, district attorney could be the first to face possible removal under last session’s HB17. And despite the Lefty DA claiming it’s all “MAGA Republican” partisanship, it turns out that the petitioner appears motivated by her experience with the DA’s office on a sexual assault case in which she was the victim.

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.

Lubbock is facing a big mayoral election that will either further empower the tax and spenders and those who think their business deals more important than the property rights of working citizens or, will restore fiscal discipline and trust in fairness at City Hall.

When combined with the pro-marijuana use proposition on the ballot, this election could be the pivot point of a generation in Lubbock sending the state’s largest strong Republican vote city into the abyss of urban Leftism. On the other hand, if voters install true conservative leadership at City Hall and reject, by a wide margin, the pot-prop the city could add years to its success in not falling down the urbanism slide to leftism.

See my Lubbock voter recommendations here.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock is facing a big mayoral election that will either further empower the tax and spenders or, will restore discipline and trust at City Hall. I talk with candidate for mayor Mark McBrayer about the issues including why big money developers are working to elect his tax raising opponent.

(By the way, McBrayer properly, in his own, requested air time the way all candidates must. No other Lubbock mayor candidate has wanted to appear on the show and some are even afraid to appear at local forums! I’m always amazed at people who run for office but are afraid to be questioned.)

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 sets more employment records, unemployment rate falls.

Oil and gas rig count goes up by 2 this week in the Baker Hughes report.

Two stories from the stench-of-local-government stack:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A longer look at the unethical election for bond debt, with a huge tax increase, by the Lynn County hospital district. Lynn County citizen Jennifer Ritz joins us to express the frustration of many in the county that sits just south of Lubbock.

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.

Judge issues TRO against City of Austin’s public comment restrictions.

California to Texas: Largest state-to-state move in the US, Texas Realtor report says.

Democrat Sues Tarrant County GOP for Place on Executive Committee. Another sign of the general lack of ethics and integrity of our society.

Long-Lost First USS Enterprise Model Is Returned to ‘Star Trek’ Creator Gene Roddenberry’s Son

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A slew of court related items involving Texas dominate the news today and I provide commentary on all:

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More comment on the current, inaugural, election for public members to Appraisal District Boards of Directors across Texas. Story shows how ignorant some legislators are: Houston voters to elect property tax board members for first time.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The old fossil federal judge, Janis Jack, is at it again – thinking she can just mandate, fiat, that a giant government bureaucracy work the way she wants. Jack demonstrates much of what is wrong with liberal Democrats. Texas fined $100,000 daily in foster care abuse lawsuit.

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.

New likely voter polling out in Texas shows Trump with huge lead but Ted Cruz in a much tighter race.

DeVillier wins at U.S. Supreme Court, can sue Texas for flood damage the state created.

Lynn County’s hospital district engages in a setup election to pass a huge tax increase. Unethical and immoral – one polling place in the county and it’s at the hospital!

New Braunfels ISD’s Staffing Decision Hints at a Larger Problem – what it reminds is that “temporary” government spending almost always become permanent government spending which translates into permanently higher taxes.

Border related news:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: State Rep. Gary VanDeaver (R-New Boston) was a paid consultant for a lobbyist group representing public schools while in office and serving on education committees. VanDeaver’s two-timing the taxpayer is an example of what is grossly wrong in Austin and hopefully voters will turn him out in the upcoming GOP primary runoffs.

Also in the campaign stack of interest:

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 historic criminal trial of Trump in New York is itself criminal and a sign of the debasement of our nation. Turley points out: Prosecutor’s Case Against Trump Hinges On ‘Serial Perjurer’.

The same type of lawfare used against Trump is being used in Texas by the State Bar Association.

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