Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: "Woke" D.E.I. and similar, under the original titles and with changed names, is going on in major state agencies, not just on college campuses, under Governor Greg Abbott's watch.TxDOT has been found to be spending money on, and pushing, D.E.I. with all of its awful ideas such as segregation, pronoun usage, and more - because as we all know, you can't maintain Texas' highways if you don't get the pronouns right!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 cities are engaging in "highway robbery" by spending massive money outside of the areas of providing basic city services. Worse, they are leaving citizens with massive debt. Maybe it's time to push constitutional amendments that forever clip the wings of local governments when it comes to spending and mission to creep.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates, or hear the podcast of the show after 6pm Central here.

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: In Mexico, journalists are now routinely murdered for reporting on the racist ruling party (Morena) and it’s ties to the narcotics cartels. When eminent people in the U.S. point out the devilish corruption, Mexico’s corrupt Presidente tells people who have fled his country how they should vote in Texas and the U.S. El Presidente is a clown, but a dangerous clown.See the Conservative-U.S.-Mexico Policy Coalition Statement here.Has Governor Abbott lied to the people of Texas about Operation Lone Star? He said we were working “with” property owners along the border and placing barriers where those owners agreed. But, in a major Hearst story we learn that Texas is placing razor wire and more on private property for which owners have not given permission AND will not indemnify those owners for liability that arises from injury from such!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.CNBC declares Florida, Texas among ‘worst’ in nation to live and work. It’s a sign of how liberalism is homeopathy for being lobotomized! “Only liberals could think all the liberal places everyone is leaving are inherently superior to all the conservative places everyone is going.”HD87: Amarillo and parts of the Panhandle will have a chance to elect an actual conservative Republican to the Texas House as liberal Republican Four Price is not running for reelection. It’s another loss for the Amarillo Matters and Kel Seliger crowd. Hopefully voters will deny that crowd’s primary choice.And, other news of Texas.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 border enforcement, what little of it there is, blows up in the national press due to a DPS medic who has made all kinds of claims that Texas is being inhumane, etc. The coverage and incendiary Democrat statements, miss the point: Human responsible agency. No one us cut by razor wire unless they try to get through it breaking into the country. No one is pushed back into anything unless those persons first choose to take an illegal and dangerous action.Also, as I mentioned earlier the biggest problem Abbott has with his floating 1,000-foot border barrier is that it may violate a treaty. If it does, no amount of Fox News chest-beating appearances will change the fact that it will have to come out.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: Armed robber gets surprise from 7-Eleven clerk.The impeachment debacle brings us a Discovery Order to stop the House managers from more unethical behavior toward A.G. Ken Paxton; a new Gag Order to stop mostly the pro-impeachment team from trying the case in the press (it is a political case after all) instead of in the Senate, and; a fine example of biased press hypocrisy regarding Paxton and political donations. Tons of outlets ran this but ignored this.Tax relief passed. I explain why much more must be done before we go for the school district M&O tax phase out.And, other news of Texas.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: An organized Leftwing political campaign in Lubbock, including by Moms Against Gregg Abbott PAC, successfully bullied Sandy Henry at the Science Spectrum to cancel the facility rental for an event at which parents and citizens were to be taught how to find pornographic, sexually explicit, and sexually inappropriate books in school and public libraries. Homewood Suites by Hilton in Lubbock also appears to have done the same.Is it the position of Homewood Suites or the Science Spectrum that it is good policy to have in our libraries pornographic, sexually explicit, and sexually inappropriate books for children? Or, is it simply that Sandy Henry of the Science Sprectrum and the Homewood Suites stand with the Left on the idea that only Leftist expression is to be protected?And don’t buy the baloney from Henry about cancelling the event because it is “controversial.” First, science itself is controversial and second, the facility has rented its meeting space for many things that the Left would consider controversial including churches, partisan political debates, and 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.More lawsuits filed against Texas:Group Sues Texas Governor and Others Over the State’s TikTok Ban on Official DevicesParents, doctors sue Texas to block transgender minor medical procedure banHere’s another big nothing from the liberal press when deconstructed: Attorney General Ken Paxton met with GOP activist he was prosecuting. Oh boy, a politician meets with a political activist for a few minutes two weeks before a primary election – that’s certainly never happened before! The story is classic example of misdirection to the point of being absurd.And, other news of Texas.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: Media and White House, all one team, crow about reduced illegal border crossings but it is a “shell game,” says a current Border Patrol agent as well as a former chief of the Border Patrol.And on the note of the border, will Gov. Abbott and Texas Republican legislators ever bother to pass meaningful illegal immigration legislation such as requiring e-Verify for employment in Texas? They killed just that bill in the Senate during the regular session.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.Watchdog files complaint over concerns on top Air Force Gen. Brown’s diversity hire priorities. Brown is a Texas Tech graduate and part of a serious problem in our nation’s military.Comptroller distributes $1.1 billion in local sales tax allocations for July, 7.5 percent more than in July 2022. Look up your city here.Paxton’s Legal Team Says Impeachment Managers ‘Withholding Information,’ Asks for ‘Strict’ Deadlines. And related, new PAC Urges Republicans to ‘Stand With Paxton’.And, other news of Texas.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: Two stories in today’s Texas press stack demonstrate the embedded racism in our colleges and universities and those who hold most of the faculty positions. Their desire to propagate a racist, bigoted, victims-forever line will not be stopped by watered down DEI laws; it will only stop when very real, serious penalties are put in place to stop such.How Texas universities can pursue diversity without race-based admissions – look at the tactics proposed! My gosh, they actually suggest red lining(!) among other ridiculous ideas.Kathleen McElroy will stay at UT-Austin, rejecting A&M journalism offer – based on her own words and career, her entire focus on so-called “journalism” is race based.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.In-state tuition rate for illegal aliens in Texas is legal, appeals court says – a perpetuation of gross injustice.Houston’s gunshot alert system isn’t curbing violence, data shows – but libs and city bureaucrats want more of it. Fort Worth is expanding its program despite no positive results.And, other news of Texas.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: Thanks to Texas Democrats and the old fossil Rep. John Bryan for stepping in it again and bringing today's good news: House and Senate leaders have reached agreement on a property tax relief deal.It's largely the Senate's plan and it will likely be voted on this Thursday according to state Rep. Carl Tepper who joins us briefly in the last segment.If all passes, Governor Abbott and Speaker Phelan lost the insider political battle on this one but taxpayers ultimately win and that's what matters. I give full analysis on the show.And for all that effort of the Dems on proposing their own plan, which got the GOP leaders to work, they got nothing.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: ATM robbery doesn’t go well for robbers.And, other news of Texas.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: On the same day Harris County makes a show of suing the state over new elections law designed to help fix elections in Houston, new damning details were revealed in a court case over the 2022 handling of elections by Harris County. The great Holly Hansen has the story at The Texan.“The county’s call log indicates that the presiding judges for the Klein Multipurpose Center and the University of Houston Clear Lake locations called at 6:49 a.m. and 7:01 a.m. respectively because they had not been given any ballot paper at all. In another instance, the call center failed to denote the location of a precinct reporting no ballot paper, while others began reporting a shortage of paper before 9 a.m…”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: Armed car thief shot by armed car owner.Useless committee hearing and an even worse tax relief plan from Democrats in your do little Texas House of Representatives. Note my comments yesterday about this plan and then note from today’s coverage that what it really does is payoff the teachers unions from now on with money you might otherwise get in future tax cuts through school district tax rate compression. In other words, the Democrat plan takes money in future budgets from the tax relief column and moves it to giant annual raises for teachers.Oil and gas rig count drops again in Texas, rises nationally.And, other news of Texas.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: Republicanism is about dispersing power and opposing its concentration in any one person or institution – so why have Texas Republicans, from legislators to the governor to Supreme Court justices, punted so often and been afraid to act on the clear wrongs in the Texas Disaster Act? Is it political cowardice, ignorance, or a desire to have such power? No matter the answer, we are not well served by all the dancing around the fundamental problems shown by Abbott’s use of the Disaster Act, for many years, to amass centralized power.Brad Johnson, of The Texan, covers this issue as well as it has been covered in: Constitutionality of State Disaster Powers Remains Unaddressed by Texas Supreme Court.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 House Democrats take advantage of Republican in-action on property tax relief with their own vote-buying planthat will get good press. It’s an effective campaign strategy except for one thing: Renters, as a cohort, don’t vote in nearly as significant numbers as do homeowners.And, other news of Texas.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: If you ever doubted how the legacy media thinks of you as ignorant rubes ripe for manipulation, look no further than a set of near-propaganda stories on A.G. Ken Paxton and the impeachment cesspool Texas House members threw us into in a fit over a budget request. I discuss the following:Paxton’s Lawyer Says Suspended Attorney General Will Not ‘Dignify’ Impeachment Trial by Testifying. – a straight up story with no bias‘Outside’ report? Law firm that wrote it to defend Ken Paxton was paid $500K by Texas AG. – It has always been known and was never hidden in anyway that the outside law firm’s report was commissioned and paid for the the Office of Attorney General. This is standard practice across the board.Embattled Texas AG Paxton secretly went on China junket against advice of staff, docs show. And?! So what, what business is it of staff? That’s where all this stuff began – with staff that thought they were the elected boss and not the actual boss.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.Border news shows just how despicable is the situation of our easy-access border that Leftists and the Democratic Party supports.Biden loses on “ghost-gun” case in a Texas federal court.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com