Pratt on Texas

REPEAT: Faculty persist in racist viewpoint on campus despite DEI law | Data: gunshot alert system ineffective – Pratt on Texas 7/11/2023

REPEAT: Force you into electric cars & then drain your battery!? | Voter ID for mail-in ruled a violation – Pratt on Texas 8/23/2023

REPEAT: Does big Abbott donor profit from illegal immigration? | Anti-Wimp update | Local sales tax take – Pratt on Texas 8/9/2023

REPEAT: Rogue prosecutors in Texas | New property tax limitation idea | DeSantis at the border – Pratt on Texas 6/26/2023

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day:  Texans for Lawsuit Reform, TLR, is a curiously center stage player in the upcoming show trial impeachment of Ken Paxton. Most curious is how the once respectable group has turned so arrogant that its own statements, its bullying, is laughably self-contradictory.It’s rather clear to most honest insiders, even those like me who over the years allied with TLR on  much, that the group’s too-big-for-their-britches these days leaders are out for Paxton’s political blood after the humiliation taken by TLR in the primary. TLR got poor Eva Guzman to give up a spot on the Supreme Court to run against Paxton, spent millions on her, and came in a distant third behind even to scandal plagued George P. Bush.This is another reason I maintain that impeachment was the wrong vehicle for issues with Paxton, whether true or not, because all of the impeachment process comes down to political scalp taking.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.Houston wins bid to host the 2028 Republican National Convention, the first for the Bayou City since Geo. H.W. Bush in 1992.Space X has successful engine test of Superheavy at Boca Chica. And, in another prong of the political attack on SpaceX and Elon Musk, Biden’s “Justice” Department sues the company for only hiring U.S. Citizens or lawful Permanent Residents! (This despite ITAR rules that force such on SpaceX.) Read this story AND the informed comments and you’ll understand how preposterous this is.Another big fall off in the oil and gas drilling rig count.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: Amarillo city council fires its city manager (good); Dallas’ mayor unsuccessfully fights for a property tax cut; McLennan County adopts no-new-revenue tax rate and much more from the local government news and school district news stack.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: Firearm used to stop alleged burglar; sheriff praises armed assistance.Border news: Trial begins as Texas, other states, sue the Biden Administration over it’s free entry to work policy for certain aliens.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: Not only do Democrats want to force you into an electric vehicle, they also want the right, without notice, to drain its battery overnight to shore-up the electric grid they have imperiled by making it hard to build reliable power plants.Diana Furchtgott-Roth of The Heritage Foundation address this latest, very real, policy fiasco of Democrats. Read more here: California Transportation Policy Is Not for the Free.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.Update on several lawsuits against Texas:Nut-case federal judge says Texas can have Voter I.D. for in-person voting but not for the far less secure and easy to cheat mail-in-ballot voting!Judge in border buoy case to rule strictly on the merits of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.Harris County must, for now, follow the new law that requires it to end its Office of Elections and turn duties over the elected county clerk and voter registrar.Texas booksellers ask judge to put book rating law on hold because they apparently do not know, or want to know, what it is they sell to Texas school libraries.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 is another Blacklisting of Americans update from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/    Find other Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra blacklisting updates here: https://prattontexas.com/?s=blacklistBy the way, Zimmerman’s latest book: Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space is a must-read for those who want to understand how wrong the Left is about America’s slavery history as well as how a small part of what became the USA took very wrong decisions which are still at the center of our most difficult societal problems. This book is original, not another rewrite of what others have published. It is also real History written from primary sources.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.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: Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick make a wrong choice for counsel in the upcoming Paxton impeachment trial.The real story out of this weekend blowup is how the press in Texas misleads you by omission. They set it up from Quorum Report to the Statesman to the Texas Tribune as a trivial matter of a $250 donation to Paxton’s primary opponent. However, that WAS NOT the story.The story is how the judge Patrick has picked to help him has direct ties to those investigating impeachment, voting for impeachment, and prosecuting impeachment – that bit was completely absent in the big media stories! What liars.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.Another strong Tejana leaves the open borders Democratic Party to become a Republican. Welcome Kleberg County Attorney Kira Talip Sanchez.Taxpayers Win Appeal on Amarillo Civic Center Lawsuit. It shows how disgusting and arrogant the city hall and civic cheerleader crowd is to have even files an appeal in this case.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: Texas public college and universities are making a big show of ending D.E.I. programs after such were outlawed by the legislature but, it is easy to see that in many cases it’s all just a rebranding and the use of taxpayer money to promote “progressive” (i.e. Leftist) political ideologies on campus will continue.‘No one is going to lose a job’ in response to DEI ban, UT-Dallas president says – note that he also says: “We’re going to continue doing those things,” Benson said. “And so it’ll go under a different name. But I don’t think anyone would have a problem with the actual actions of what we do.”University of Houston’s LGBTQ resource center to close due to DEI banAnd the problem of using taxpayer money to specifically promote Leftist political agendas isn’t limited to colleges, plenty of local governments do the same.City of Dallas budget to use taxpayer funds to boost homosexual “pride” events in Big D.Why? Because the alphabet homosexual community couldn’t raise enough to pay for their planned “drag queen” political statement event.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 falls again nationally but Texas remains even.Solid Employment Growth in July Leads to More Records in Texas.Texas State Library to Cut Ties with Communist-led American Library Association.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com