The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The Colony Ridge controversy: I was among the first to report on such but it has blown up into something well beyond what the known facts represent and, the issue is, at present, an example of how conservative leaning media and political groups can act as badly as the Left with hype and misinformation.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.Governor Abbott said to have notified legislative leaders that he will call a Special Session to begin next Monday, 9 October at 1 p.m. Press reports indicate that it will be focused on school choice but may also include border and illegal immigration related items.“Why is school choice such a big issue?,” asks the Austin American-Statesman and I tell you why in today’s show – at the fundamental level.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: A reporter from another world, not Texas, came to Texas and was shocked by our comfort around firearms and culture of self-defense. Like many pseudo-intellectuals, underlying her surprise is an odd idea that we know when and where, specifically, crime is going to occur. If we could predict such, we’d have no crime. Thus, carrying a firearm everywhere is required if one is to have effective self protection. Also, does the woman not know that Texas was born into the issue of self-defense and guns? The anniversary of the Battle of Gonzales, “Come and Take It,” is on Monday, October 2nd.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.Oil and gas rig count takes yet another dive.Analyst points out that Sherman local governments didn’t need to offer the huge tax breaks to semiconductor firms: Texas Instruments and GlobiTech score $3B of subsidies for Sherman semiconductor plants.Local governments seem to always be out of money but those same governments are almost all involved in funding mission creep in a variety of areas.Insubordinate, self-centered, and arrogant fired Office of Attorney General political appointees get go ahead to continue with their “whistleblower” case in Travis County where we all know they’ll have an impartial and competent judge and jury! [Sarcasm for those can’t sense such.]Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: “Gift for mayor of Hutto ignites uproar,” read a headline in the Austin American-Statesman this week. The lesson here is that those who claim so much around them is “racist” are themselves so stewed in racist thought that they cannot conceive of people are are not. What we need do is to start ignoring the always-offended when they simply impute into others racist intent. Prove it, make a case for intent, or sit down and live with the rest of us.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.Amarillo’s state Rep. John Smithee is being pushed to challenge for the Texas House speaker’s gavel. I’ll tell you why Smithee might be very good but why you should not jump on any bandwagon at this time.Court ruling on transvestite shows for children has a prima facie problem: The ruling talks all about “drag shows” but the law is about lewd performance of any type in front of children.Border Patrol chief makes surprise visit to his old post at Eagle Pass this week. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

This is a repeat of Monday, 18 September 2023 as an unexpected situation has prevented me from performing the show today (9/27/23).Our Lone Star story of the day: The historic Ken Paxton impeachment trial ended Saturday with full acquittal and reinstatement of the Attorney General.Afterward, in order to put it in the historic record, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick delivered a deserved and scathing address to the Texas House of Representatives and listed reforms that need to be made in order that impeachment might not be so abused in the future. Watch these remarks that well echo my early criticism here (begins at about 1:50): https://tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=35&clip_id=18360 You can watch closing statements (beginning at 24:50) here: https://tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=35&clip_id=18357Our 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.Another Hispanic female officeholder switches to the Republican Party in Texas.Rep. Steve Allison, HD121 pulls a big name Bexar Co. GOP primary opponent over not being for school choice.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Regulating, raiding, dealing with “game rooms” has long been a big issue across Texas but, in Lubbock County some officials have acted as if it’s all new to them. Early in the year Lubbock Co. Commissioner Jason Corley proposed a program to deal with the game rooms but Judge Parrish and others were having none of it. But due to public pressure they said they’d take the summer to prepare an ordinance to discussed in September. It’s September, where is it?A story out of Beaumont shows that many outside of Lubbock know these game rooms are a problem and have long been trying to keep them in-line. Maybe people in these other jurisdictions are not somehow being bought off by game room operators?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 Paxton so-called “whistleblowers” won’t go away even after their sworn testimony made their claims unbelievable.As I predicted, after months of decline in the Texas manufacturing sector, growth in the service sector has slowed. Retail remains in the dumps.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The border and illegal immigration problem grows worse by the month and year and there is plenty of evidence the Biden Administration as well as the Democratic Party supports the disaster. Given the complete stick-in-the-eye to the people of Texas from Washington, DC, what exactly is Texas doing about it? I don’t mean what Texas politicians talk or posture about doing but what is actually happening with our money that shows any form of effectiveness?Biden Administration Knew Border Surge Was Coming, Internal Documents Show—And Did NothingMigrants Resume Border Crossings into Texas Town as Biden Admin Re-Opens Rail BridgeICE gave contract approval power to woman who previously defended immigrants from deportationBiden Regime Gives Christian Family That Fled Germany 15 Years Ago Four Weeks to ‘Self-Deport’VIDEO: Mexican President Claims Conservative Media Won’t Talk About ‘Republican Bob Menendez’ – and that he’s from Texas!Alleged Cartel Informer Brutally Assaults, Bites Border Patrol Agent in TexasOur 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 manufacturing activity rebounds in September but outlook remains negative.Texas Republican Party executive committee votes 58 to 2 to call on House Speaker Dade Phelan to resign.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Big political news from Big D: Saying “American cities need Republicans,” Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announces his switch to the Republican Party in the pages of today’s Wall Street Journal. Johnson lists solid reasons for his switch and Texas Democrats are furious. The Texas Democratic Party responded with “hate speech” against the black, male mayor – at least that’s what Dems would call it if the words came from Republicans.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 Tech’s shameful reintroduction of racial segregation thwarted by anti-DEI law and one student decries the move as she favors DEI’s new form of segregation and lowered expectations for select, Left-favored minorities.The Texas border with Mexico is again dominating the news. Empirically Operation Lone Star is not making any significant dent in illegal crossings, and crossers go right through the Texas razor wire, so why not scale back the expensive theater security and focus on what is working: Moving these folks the feds release to other parts of the county in a much higher volume.TX19’s Jody Arrington proposes a federal budget that would go a long way to righting the American fiscal ship – can enough of it ever pass?After a few good weeks of adding oil and gas drilling rigs, the rig count takes another plunge.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas border with Mexico is again dominating the news. Empirically Operation Lone Star is not making any significant dent in illegal crossings so why not scale back the expensive theater security and focus on what is working: Moving these folks the feds release to other parts of the county in a much higher volume.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.More impeachment follow-up including a rabidly Leftist state senator ridiculously claiming that Lt. Gov. Patrick ran the Paxton trial in a manner biased against House prosecutors. Sen. Eckhardt goes so far as to suggest it was Patrick who prevented the ex-mistress from testifying. However, an entirely different story on that subject appears in a WFAA interview.The differences between school “vouchers” and Education Savings Accounts.Harris County’s liberal chiefs are oddly aghast that their fellow leftwing judges are spending a fortune appointing private attorneys for defendants.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s not just “those little counties” anymore. Dallas County and Harris County Republican Party’s vote to support censure of House Speaker Dade Phelan for not supporting GOP legislative priorities and for the impeachment push through.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.Hint: If you want more conservative local government, STOP HIRING NON-CONSERVATIVES to run it!Much border news today. EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS: 7K Migrants Cross into One Texas Border Town in 72 Hours. By the way, note that Texas’ very expensive Operation Lone Star doesn’t seem to be making much of a difference.Judge blocks new Texas law aimed at keeping pornography out of public school libraries. The weakness of this ruling is left out by the press but I’ll tell you what it is.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Is a special legislative session on school choice coming soon in Texas? Most likely it us but don’t by this week’s media narrative that the impeachment strife between Senate and House leaders puts a new spin on the issue. The lines on school choice have already been drawn and the strife between bad House Speaker Phelan and Lt. Gov. Patrick, as well as other members, was already at a peak.Pushing Back Against Compromise School Choice Efforts – Texans For Fiscal Responsibility. I generally agree with these guys on where the lines of compromise must be drawn but we also cannot ignore the effectiveness of incrementalism in getting through legislation that would otherwise fail.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.More impeachment fallout including Patrick saying that Speaker Phelan need to be a man. Another county GOP in Rep. Murrstache’s district passes a censure of the man who led the House sham impeachment investigation.Texas again leads all states for annual jobs growth, Governor Abbott crows.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com