Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court denies the tech industry and allows Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to be enforced while legal challenges play out in the courts. Funny how these people are so opposed to age verification and parental control; you might even think they have something to hide! 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.

Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico gets creepier, says “drag queens” are an industry that needs protection! He claimed that Texas produces “some of the best drag queens in the nation.”

Governor Abbott Directs HHSC To Investigate Birth Tourism Packages To Foreign Nationals. State lawmakers to explore banning foreign nationals from using Texas surrogates.

Texas sales tax revenue totaled $4.2 billion in June, up 4.2%.

Toyota, in $3.6 billion move, shifting Tacoma production to Texas from Mexico.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Abortion if illegal in Texas but abortion trafficking is not. So why are some cities and counties, including rural areas, refusing to pass bans on abortion trafficking? Often these are electorates of very conservative pro-life people but their commissioners and city council folk are hostile to the pro-life movement. Are they just more fake “Republicans” who claim the title simply to gain office?

We spend the show talking with Mark Lee Dickson, the undisputed leader in Texas of advancing the Sanctuary City and County for the Unborn effort.

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: Senator Charles Perry appeared at the Lubbock ISD trustee meeting to inquire why a vulgar book was returned to school library shelves – it became a lesson on what is wrong with most bureaucracies: focus on process over a focus on results. Senator Perry joins us today on Pratt on Texas. Read more here.

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.

Hancock quits, Governor Abbott names Don Huffines as Texas comptroller.

Baker Hughes: Texas gains more oil and gas drilling rigs.

Pratt commentary: At 250 our allies are not the same as friends.

Texas Regulators Approve Plan To Manage Large-Load Requests, Including Data Centers. Oklo’s Texas Nuclear Test Reactor Clears Major DOE Safety Milestone.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A midterm election Republican National Convention, really a rally, is coming to the American Airlines Center in Dallas on 9 and 10 September. A “Trumpapalooza” it is being called.

And related to the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court has corrected its very bad older ruling on candidate and political party coordination: Justices strike down campaign finance law.

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.

It’s sort of a mega-flip-flop: Gov. Greg Abbott calls for ban on data center development in rural Texas neighborhoods. Beware the wording as most of what he says “they’ve gotta do” is stuff “they” are already doing. Plus, what is a “rural neighborhood” anyway?

From the Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico stack:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: More court and legal news today:

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Dallas Fed: Texas’ Service Sector expanded at an increased rate in June.

Shock poll: Talarico ties Paxton in Texas Senate race, threatening GOP stronghold. The race will be fairly tight but I think this poll over sampled Dems or Dem-leaning “independents.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much court and legal news today:

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Texas ranks as “Best Business Climate” for fourth year in a row in report from Business Facilities magazine.

Dallas Fed: Texas factory growing but growth slows.

Texas (Del Rio) sisters charged with stabbing mom of 5 to death. Sickening footage shows Texas sisters Cookie and Kitty grin as they’re busted for allegedly hacking mom of 5 to death.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court ruling in Texas that significantly affects homeowner property rights, neighborhoods, and short-term rentals.

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.

Fort Bend County Judge Chaos: Some Legal Considerations. Background: Is Daniel Wong Out as Fort Bend County Judge? Fort Bend commissioners call for interim county judge to vacate office. Daniel Wong pushes back against claims he no longer has authority as Fort Bend County judge.

TPWD confirms established population of invasive Zebra Mussels in Lake Meredith; says lake is “infested.” The lake a major water source for Amarillo, Lubbock, and cities of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority.

Oil and gas drilling rig count jumps this week in Texas. Oil and gas expansion gains momentum; outlooks improve but cost pressures grow.

SBOE passes much, delays highschool standards to September.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Big wins at the U.S. Supreme Court on two border/immigration issues.

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Gary Boren talks about his race in the special election for Lubbock City Council – Saturday is Election Day.

Texas Democrats and their media allies talk constantly about rebuilding the party to attract Texas voters and then what do the morons running the Democrat Convention show do? They invite radical socialist Vermont Yankee Bernie Sanders as their keynote speaker; New Jersey’s Cory Booker; Illinois slob J.B. Prtizker, and; New Mexico’s lameduck pro-abortion mill governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. And remember, they didn’t even invite all of their own Texas Congressional people to speak. Who, with any political competence, thinks Sanders and this lot positively influences Texans, outside of their weirdo base, to consider Democrats!?

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Not only is Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico a far Leftist, he claims to “hate Christianity.’ No doubt he does hate all of the clear teachings of Christianity that contradict his secular-humanist Leftist beliefs – the bulwark of his political philosophy. John Nolte at Breitbart covers this best:  James ‘God Is Non-Binary’ Talarico Admits He’s a ‘Christian Who Hates Christianity’

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.

TDI prioritizes transparency by making home and auto insurance data public.

SBOE approves new elementary social studies standards. Texas to pay $8.4 million to fix errors in its new Bluebonnett curriculum. Sounds like a lot but developing curriculum is very expensive. My guess is that Texas taxpayers are still going to come out massively ahead by the savings of thousands of districts from not paying very expensive licensing fees.

Europeans Visiting U.S. for World Cup Fall in Love with America: ‘The Most Wonderful People in the World’

City of Austin Residents’ Municipal Audit Petition Officially Certified

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The press has run stories and photos of what appeared to be hateful bigotry at the Texas Republican Convention directed at a few Muslim attendees. It was a setup! These supposed Republicans were not such, they are recent donors to Democrats.

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.

June Poll Finds a Competitive U.S. Senate race in Texas amid continuing economic concerns, data center backlash. I hit on a few highlights others will not. I’ll discuss more in coming days.

Much from the courts:

AI startup Partly plans hundreds of Austin hires after HQ move from New Zealand. And, Axiom Space, headquartered in Houston, redomiciles in Texas.

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