Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Agriculture Commissioner, and former state rep., Sid Miller talks about his disappointment with the legislature and how is now going on a “RINO hunt!”Among the key comments in the two-segment interview is this about Governor Abbott failing to get a property tax relief deal done in the Regular Session, then failing in the first Called Session, and then calling a second Called Session for the same thing: “Why call another special session when know you don’t have a deal?” Exactly, and there is much more for Commissioner Miller in the interview.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.More key U.S. Supreme Court decisions out today and the Court announced a key Second Amendment case it would take up in its next term:Supreme Court strikes down Biden student-loan forgiveness programSupreme Court Sides With Christian Web Designer In Compelled Speech CaseJustices take up major Second Amendment disputeAnd, 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 U.S. Supreme Court ruling today are of importance. The ban on using race for college admissions is a long sought after stop to today’s Democrat and Leftist backed reverse discrimination to try and somehow settle the score for past injustices (mostly created and enforced oddly enough by the Democratic Party in this country.) The ruling matters and will affect UT-Austin, Rice, SMU, and others shat have openly been using a racist admissions policy. Sherry Sylvester of the TPPF joins us to talk how this ruling relates to our fight to get D.E.I. and similar off of our public university campuses.The second ruling, Groff v. DeJoy, is even more important for Americans of faith and will affect all employers with 15 or more employees. This religious accommodation ruling rights a bad error in 1977 that gutted much workplace protection of people of faith. First Liberty and others did great work in this case.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 news of Abbott’s 2nd Called Session of the Legislature is that there is not much news as both the House and Senate seem to be where they were a week ago. However, the Senate did add a big political weapon to its proposed property tax relief package: a big public school teacher pay bonus.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: Governor Abbott calls another special session of the legislature after getting nothing from his first called session. This time, Abbott tries to dictate the specific policy lawmakers should take but, that policy has no long term solid plan to ensure it doesn’t fizzle next time there isn’t an abundance of money to spend and, it gives most of us significantly less property tax relief.I explain why I support the Senate approach now even though I support more strongly the idea of what Governor Abbott is now, at this late date, pushing for.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.Queer homosexual (or alphabet?) group upset that the City of Lubbock will not pass a resolution specifically honoring pride in homosexual behavior. Should we honor swingers, celibates, adulterers, monogamous heterosexuals, fetishists, etc. with resolutions to “acknowledge” them simply because of their sexual behavior? Of course not and we should stop promoting homosexuals and their events too. These people are like all the victimhood grasping people on the Left; they are stuck in adolescence and need constant approval of others to find value with their life (or more likely to assuage the natural guilt they feel from their choices.) Far more concerning than their homosexuality is that these people need the support of politicians to fill fulfilled!A&M, UNT, UT and others awarding minor degrees in homosexual studies. And don’t doubt that all of these programs are pro-homosexuality as opposed to critical or questioning.Anti-Wimp: Robbers lose in shootout with armed pregnant woman and her husband.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: Polling in Texas shows a massive increase in support for true public school choice with landslide numbers favoring such. And while so many legislators were elected to do little but protect the money flows to the government owned and operated school bureaucracy, people across the nation seem to finally be awakening to the decades of rot that has made traditional public schooling anything but traditional and resulted in it being unpalatable for those with moral and ethical values.Our friend Robert Zimmerman has penned an essay on this subject that is worth sharing with all: The insidious presence of porn in K-12 public schools.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 business climate in the United States. Meanwhile the service and retail sectors are hurting in the Lone Star State.U.S. Supreme Court stubs its collective toe in yet another muddled decision on states and elections that will only invite more lawsuits.The Vatican and Lefty-friendly Pope Francis is going after Tyler’s Roman Catholic Bishop who hasn’t surrendered sufficiently to the Leftist secular culture.Texas college allegedly fired biology professor for teaching sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y. Odd that a public community college, part of the Alamo Community Colleges District, opposed to religious values would be named “Saint” Philips College!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

Charles "Cully" Stimson, along with co-author Zack Smith, explain how the "pro criminal nuts" behind the "Fair and Just Prosecution" movement are using language to bamboozle Americans in local district attorney races to elect George Soros backed candidates who, once elected, choose to go to extremes to NOT effectively prosecute criminals, in their new book: Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America's Communities (Kindle and paperback editions.)A very short summary of the problem can be found here: George Soros’s prosecutors wage war on law and order. Leftist prosecutors fulfill Soros’s aims by refusing to go after entire categories of crime.Texas now has several of the district attorneys in office and the cost to Texans is the same as elsewhere in the country: Rising crime rates. In Travis County it has manifested in rising crime while police face prosecution for working to stop riots from getting worse.This soft under belly of local district attorney elections is the latest vulnerability the radical Left has attacked to sow danger and chaos into our country.The first segment of my interview with Cully Stimson aired as a segment of Pratt on Texas on 26 June 2023 and then much more detailed discussion continued in a Podcast Extra. I have included the on-air segment as the beginning of the Podcast Extra for those who did not hear the program.

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas now has several of the George Soros supported district attorneys in office and the cost to Texans is the same as elsewhere in the country: Rising crime rates. In Travis County it has manifested in rising crime while police face prosecution for working to stop riots from getting worse. This soft under belly of local district attorney elections is the latest vulnerability the radical Left has attacked to sow danger and chaos into our country.In their new book, Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities (Kindle and paperback editions,) Charles “Cully” Stimson and Zack Smith detail what is happening to America’s criminal justice system one jurisdiction at a time. We visit with Cully Stimson about the issue for one segment of today’s show. A much longer portion of my interview is posted as a Podcast Extra which is the next episode.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.Rep. Burrows launches the idea of a limit of 7.5% property tax increase on any one taxpayer over the previous year as the Senate and House continue to disagree on Texas property tax relief.Governor Ron DeSantis unveils his border security plan while visiting the Texas border with Mexico.Texas manufacturing sector activity declined in June; rig count falls again, and; SpaceX’s Starlink gets study from Japan’s defense forces.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

Repeat of part of the Pratt on Texas Texas Hour from Wednesday, 14 June 2023 and from Tuesday, 20 June 2023.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Senate sets rules for the so-called “trial” in the Paxton impeachment debacle that House members knee-jerked us into. You heard it here first (last week with Senator Perry,) it won’t start in August but in September.The only big surprise is how the Senate split the baby on Senator Paxton, the wife of Ken Paxton. She will not be able to vote but will be on the floor as a member of the “court” and count toward the number of senators present. This is very important as establishment insider Republicans, many long out to ruin Ken Paxton, along with liberal media allies, have been trying to get her seat as well as of another senator not to count so as to lower the number of votes need to get two-thirds to convict.Read the rules here (pdf) https://prattontexas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SenateImpeachmentRulesSR00035I.pdfOur 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.Deadly and damaging weather hit Matador, 4 dead, and across Texas Wednesday night – a full update.Why LULAC, a once reputable organization, is no longer with spit and neither is this KXAN reporting. Texas didn’t end anyone’s water break. The bill in question, not explained, is the one that stops cities from regulating things the state regulates. Read the invective, hateful words of the LULAC chief and then realize that only 2 or 3 municipalities, Austin and San Antonio I think, even had ordinances that the law overrides. And to prove the point that rules are being enforce, including “water breaks” see this story from the Midland paper: OSHA sends inspectors to ensure workers are safe in heat wave.Much immigration and border related news.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: Was Greta Thunberg correct? Of course not, and neither have been the other apocalyptic climate doomsayers been right. Even the models used by the top specialists have been wrong and never close enough to reality in accuracy to justify policy decisions. But it doesn’t matter, the rich West if reordering itself so that the elite few can have control over all and become even richer and more powerful. The rest of the world smiles and plays along but doesn’t really bother other than encouraging the West to bankrupt itself.The planet’s climate has always been changing, at every moment, and at greatly varying rates of change. All policy should be to enable freedom, free markets, and the innovation that goes with such in order create the technology and wealth needed to adapt to changes, not engage in foolish arrogance of controlling a climate we so little understand that even simple models fail to accurately predict much.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 Senate did not issue impeachment rules yesterday and was still working on the issue this afternoon.The most Made in America cars are not from GM or Ford but from a Texas company: Tesla. And Tesla is having a big week with its charging interface moving to be the de facto standard over the government plan Biden is pushing. Also, Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas has reach a milestone in producing 10 million 4680 battery units.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: The Texas Senate, still at work unlike the House, puts forth a compromise property tax relief bill that keeps the much larger relief to homestead homeowners and helps business by expanding the Franchise Tax exemption and pushes further school district M&O tax compression Abbott decided he favored at the last moment of the session. Will the House respond favorably? Abbott is still playing with words on the issue.The House’s version of work is Speaker Phelan creating a committee on property tax reduction! I kid you not! This is something one does to admit defeat or to do nothing. The House and its committees ARE the committees on the subject, it’s laughable that they need some new outside committee – unless of course they are admitting their own incompetence.And over at the Capitol-insider Quorum Report, both its founder and its editor echo what I have been telling you for years about Abbott and he works with(?) the Legislature. Your Texas political swami strikes again!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.Fresh news from the great Texas impeachment debacle.The highly accurate legislator right/left ranking guides are out. The Texas Fiscal Responsibility index is here and you can look up each legislator and the bills used in his ranking – nothing is hidden like the politicians would prefer. And here are the rankings for the House from Rice University’s Mark Jones – it’s amazing how closely this academic ranking the media accepts as reliable lines up, each session, with the Texans for Fiscal Responsibility index.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