Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftist study programs thrive in Texas public schools and the Daily Caller points out the latest to be found indoctrinating public school students at Judson ISD: School District’s ‘Women’ Studies Course Instructs Students To Avoid Using ‘Gender-Biased’ Words.What’s in Senate Bill 8 and 9 – school choice and teacher retention.Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) threatens to sue school districts as a response to Carroll ISD pulling out of the organization.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.Much border news including:Known Migrant (illegal alien) Got-Aways Top 400K in Past Six MonthsMarch Southwest Border Migrant Apprehensions Jump to 161K After Two-Month DeclineMan Kidnapped in Texas Home, Taken to Mexico by Cartel Gunmen, Remains MissingTwo important court rulings:Paxton Shuts Down Biden Administration “Judge Shopping” Efforts in Lawsuit to Stop ESG RuleFifth Circuit Court Overturns Bail Bond Precedent Cases in Dallas and Harris CountiesAnd, 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: A Democrat state rep.’s entire staff quit yesterday over a slew of alleged problem – she has a history of such. A so-called loophole that let certain legislators turn their almost nothing pay into $140,000 per year is on its way to being ended. And more from the legislature.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.Jonathan Turley’s column on the Trump indictment.Oil and gas rig count for Texas up this week.Gov. Abbott: Texas Leads Nation With Fastest Economic Expansion.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: There’s a new twist from the Left on school choice that would make the most shameless Soviet propagandist proud.Dirty books in our public schools; armed security at every Texas public school campus, and; the fight to protect Texas children from the abusive “trans” sexual movement – it’s all in today’s look at the 88th session of the Texas Legislature.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: As gun jams, food truck cook, grandmother, ends man’s crime career.Texas’ Rainy Day Fund might reach it’s cap if projections hold up. All that means is that we need to save more because, due to inflation, the dollar is actually worth less.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: Why is there such opposition to reforming public education in Texas and America? Public schools are at the center of our cultural and political debates and yet there is a knee-jerk attitude by many, including Republicans, that efforts to reform and improve public schools is anti-teacher and anti-public education.Democrats blacklist their own when they support real reform as Rep. Harold Dutton is learning.Could it be that the current model of public education has become the Left’s most successful tool to push revolution in our country? Could that be why there is always such strident opposition to measurement and improvement?Southlake Carroll ISD leaving Texas Assoc. of School Boards is an example others should follow.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 Medical Board plays pure punitive politics in suspending an ENT doctor’s license over the stupid COVID mask mandate issue.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: Response in Texas to the Tennessee Christian school shooting demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy of the Left, the contradictions of Leftists demands related to “gender identity,” and the fact that Democrats rarely, if ever, offer up proposals that deal with causal issues – no matter whether effective proposals or not.Despite what many want you to think, there is no evidence of a causal relationship between any firearm or quantity or type of firearm and the decision to murder people. Furthermore, there is a plethora of other ways to achieve the same or similar outcomes by people who study, plan, and carry out murderous activity.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.Dallas Fed report shows a big slowing in the Texas service sector and continued bad performance in the retail sector.Border news includes Nikki Haley to visit the Texas border with Mexico but being hosted by Rep. Tony Gonzales makes one question her real commitment to solving the problem. Also, a big fire possibly set by migrants themselves kills at least 39 in Juárez.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: Too many Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives seem to owe their allegiance to local school bureaucrats than to citizen voters and the overall good of Texas. Despite massive poll numbers in support of authentic school choice too many support protecting the socialist model of government owned and operated schools. Those baffoons are funding and protecting the very institutions which are central to the destruction of our society by the indoctrination of children with Leftist ideology. Not only that, they are generally failing at providing an actual education worthy of the funds expended.Former Governor Rick Perry explains why he thinks Texas should adopt school choice; Dr. Ben Carson explains why such matters; and yet, multiple sources say that as of this moment there are not enough votes in the Republican dominated Texas House to pass school choice. Citizens must begin hammering on their state reps to back school choice or this opportunity may be gone for a generation. Find your elected member of the Texas House 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.Modest growth resumes in Texas manufacturing, but outlooks continue to worsen.Leftwing Texas Observer calls it quits after 68-years– why is it needed when the Texas Tribune every large newspaper in Texas pushes the Leftwing agenda?We remember the massacre at Goliad this day in 1836 with Brian Burns fabulous song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQajh5E7U4&feature=youtu.beAlso see: Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers by Jay A. StoutAnd, 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: Why should Republicans bring back a crony tax break program we let end last session? Many of them sure want to do so and I’ll explain why it’s a terrible idea. Plus more for the 88th legislative session in Austin including reining in rogue district attorneys.Also, why gambling expansion to “destination casinos” in Texas is not something I’ve spent much time talking about – it has to do with respect for your time.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 leads the nation again – February jobs numbers released.Oil and gas drilling rig count up.Democrats demonstrate, once again, that they are anti-family, anti-parent, and anti-child.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: Senate passes its form of tax relief with a unanimous vote; House Appropriations is moving its version of the state budget forward, and as usual the liberals are upset that we aren’t spending enough, and; the House finally schedules floor votes to start next week! Those items and more from the 88th Texas Legislature.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.Lubbock County Commissioner, Precinct 4, Jordan Rackler discusses the opposition to regulating “game rooms” in Lubbock and expresses his dissatisfaction at delays in passing an ordinance.“Bill Peacock on how legislators are missing the right fix to Texas’ electric grid,” was a title from Monday’s show and new coverage in the Dallas Morning News amplifies Peacock’s points on how the legislature is not only missing the mark but hurting our successful market: Experts warn Senate plan for statewide ‘backup generator’ would sink ERCOT free market.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: Lubbock County Commissioner, Precinct 2, Jason Corley joins the show to discuss the odd, strident, knee jerk reaction of the County Judge and other county officials to adopting simple regulations on the plethora of “game rooms.” Why are the county’s top law enforcement, the district attorney and sheriff, so uninterested in the matter, for many years now, when we know that these places have been a problem across the state? Are these folks protecting the seedy game rooms, on the take from the owners, or just not interested in dealing with the problem because it is work?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 Anti-Wimp update: Man’s “gun control” better than that of  two home invaders in Garland.Embattled Clay County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyde nets new round of indictments.An example of how the Houston Chronicle misleads its readers and an example of hypocrisy from the Dallas Morning 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: With a strong official opinion backed up by recent Texas and U.S. Supreme Court opinions, Attorney General Paxton makes it clear that school choice, as proposed in the Senate, does not violate the state or national constitution.Paxton also received a temporary win on Biden’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) overreach.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.At West Texas A&M, liberals get a big dose of their own “woke” medicine on speech and expression but, the liberals there and in the press are so intellectually limited they don’t see the lesson. Notice how to libs if something is a “mainstay” of their culture it is defensible even if would normally be objectionable to their woke standards. Also notice how that never applies to things that are mainstays of other peoples’ cultures.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