The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Sadly Senator Charles Perry joined with a few others to help Senator Nichols gut the bill to ban taxpayer funded lobbying. The bill, SB 19 by Senator Middleton, is a wheat-from-the-chaff issue for anyone interested in good and better government. It is an issue conservatives a…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From a recent Podcast Extra: Roy Maynard joins us for a Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra to discuss his great column: AP’s Argument Against Being Booted From WH Event Is Laughable Given Its History. More background: White House bans AP reporter from press event over style guide’s…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature is more than a third of the way to ending and the Senate has been busy; the House is just now getting to work, and; there are many bills in the mix. Today is a full focus on bills of which we should be aware. One of those bills is related to car lic…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Language, words, are what allow us to form and communicate thought and words, to a large degree, control our thought. Members of media well know this and use such to engage in opinion shaping even when pretending to be engaged in straight reporting. From more alleged abortion…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Hughes, the Lt. Governor, and others are falling prey to pro-abortion Democrats plan of incrementally making abortion legal with a new bill to “clarify” Texas abortion law. It does not need clarification, it is clear on its face and evidence supports such. Breaking to…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Bryan Hughes is working to get Texas back to sanity with its Attorney General’s office prosecuting election crimes as it did since 1951 before a stupid, ignorant ruling from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2021. This is greatly needed but will a good bill move …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Senate moving fast and Lieutenant Governor Patrick has released another batch of “priority” bills. Senator Charles Perry also announced filing of his big water infrastructure package, SB 7 and SJR 66. Meanwhile, tomorrow, Friday, 14 March, is last day for bill filing wh…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislative leadership has clear corruption that needs rooting out and once again, Rep. Charlie Geren, enforcer/hatchetman for Straus, Bonnen, Phelan, and now Burrows, appears to be involved – no surprise is that! This issue is emblematic of all that is wrong in our country –…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislators in the Texas House are finally hearing the HB3, school choice legislation, in the public education committee today. Expect nothing but lies from the Democrats and the long line of “witnesses” they’ll have. Start with State Rep. James Talarico, a committee member, …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislators did a half-job last session and now must get the other half fixed as the problem is still a whole and it is unethical and costs taxpayers big. Read more: Cameron County Housing Finance Corporation faces lawsuit Texas Lawmakers Seek to Close ‘Affordable Housing’ Ta…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Finally, an opening in statewide office, all thanks to the Aggies! Texas A&M has selected Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar as sole finalist for Aggie system chancellor. The Guv will appoint someone to finish out the term once Hegar resigns and the office will be on next year’s b…

Roy Maynard joins us for a Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra to discuss his great column: AP’s Argument Against Being Booted From WH Event Is Laughable Given Its History. More background: White House bans AP reporter from press event over style guide’s objection to ‘Gulf of America’ AP sues Trump to force White House access following ‘Gulf of America’ r…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump Administration began building border wall in Texas today. Tariff increase on Mexico delayed until 2 April. And this: Texas GOP lawmakers want to tap local law enforcement for immigration duties. First, this is a misleading headline as the main bill in question simpl…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Ancient, grimacing, doom-scrolling, witless, and worse describe what today’s Democrat Party looked like as President Trump addressed Congress Tuesday night. Politically impotent describes what we say too. Crazier than placeholder Al Green, who got himself thrown out, ever was…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From a DACA recipient caught smuggling illegal aliens to new military deployments on the U.S./Mexican border, there is much in the illegal immigration stack today. Mexico Pushes ‘Tough on Cartels’ Propaganda in U.S. Media to Avoid Sanctions While Protecting Top Active Narco B…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: With the previously anti-any-war, pro-Russian Left in convulsions over the Zelenskyy shakedown attempt and Trump’s not having anymore of it, noted scholar Victor Davis Hanson sums up the current state of affairs with “10 bad takeaways the Zelenskyy blow-up.” And note that for…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A blow up in the Oval Office today and a somewhat contrived blow up in the Texas House yesterday – and as usual the reporting, blaming the Republican or conservative, is opposite the reality. And also as usual, the hand-wringing crowd has it all wrong including BurrowCrat Dus…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A very interesting story about the new Air Force One planes on order, much delayed and over budget, from Boeing being built in San Antonio. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It was announced this afternoon that a deal has been made in Dallas that should (who knows with Saks?) keep the storied Neiman Marcus flagship store open in downtown Dallas. The ordeal is tied up in Texas history as much as any business story I’ve read. Our Lone Star story of…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Shooting down drones over your property; competing tax cut ideas; Ivermectin over the counter, and; more from the 89th Texas Legislature. I explain why the Senate’s focus on property tax reduction through increasing the homestead exemption is the better path from a philosophi…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott has been sucked into two stories he’d rather have not had to deal with. He’s there though and his get-out-in-front-of-it swings at bat are really weak on both stories. First is the Lottery Commission scandals – Abbott has chosen not to reign in the commission …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The new national Democrat boss is putting Texas high on the list for action so what’s different this time? He seems to understand what matters most – redistricting. Meanwhile the far Leftist Democrats in Austin squabbling and it is no surprise – Soros-backed district attorney…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate has now passed real Bail Reform, again. Once again, it will be up to the House to pass the much needed reform. Also, the House has finally filed its school choice bill while the Senate has already debated and passed its version. There are differences. Our Lon…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas electricity ratepayers are paying huge amounts of money more than they should because of the variability (unreliability) of wind and solar electricity generation. Brent Bennett, Ph.D. explains in detail the three “buckets” of cost from wind and solar variability and wha…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A little-reported, yet, news story out of free China, Taiwan, is huge for Texas’ future. Also, as predicted Saks is destroying the Texas-based culture of Neiman Marcus by closing the corporate offices in Texas and closing the flagship store in downtown Dallas! Also in the key…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Lieutenant Governor and others have a ridiculous idea that Texas should spend big taxpayer dollars to import Hollywood into Texas. Not only is this wrong and nothing but corporate welfare that doesn’t payback reliably, we should have the opposite policy of keeping much of…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate held hearings in which more of the scandal plagued Texas Lottery was exposed – see below. Also, the Senate passed major property tax relief. Meanwhile, a month into the 140-day legislative session, BurrowCrat chief Dustin Burrows finally named House committee…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate continues to work while House members sit around collecting generous per diem checks. Today the Senate was working hard on much need bail reform, reform that has been thwarted by the House for several sessions. Lt. Gov. Patrick spoke to the press today and ma…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate is already working on big priority items while the House, almost a month into the session, has not even appointed committees as of Noon today. While the House dawdles, a senate committee has passed out to the full senate that body’s property tax relief plan f…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Pubic education is no different from any other giant government bureaucracy, it’s full of wasteful spending, questionable priorities, and fraud and that does indeed include teachers from time to time. The Texas teacher cheating scandal grows as 60 more public school teachers …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Steven Balch, Ph.D. may be America’s original D.E.I. on campus fighter! He is also a regular Pratt on Texas listener which is a great honor to me. Today we talk about how he and others began the fightback against campus faculty Marxism and abuse in the 1980’s and the fruit of…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, for the sixth time, the Texas Senate has passed a true school choice bill, SB 2. It’s now up to the House to get it passed and without mucking it up to much. Note the ignorant race-baiting and contradictory statements of Democrat senators offered against the SB 2 …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott’s proposal to require a super-majority of 2/3rs for voter-approval tax rate elections is right. I explain why one of the most common arguments against this type of clamp down on local government spending is without merit. Our Lone Star story of the day is spon…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Abbott says we’ll pass school choice without the big handout, offered last time, to the ISD bureaucracies. The governor points out that when offered billions last time around the ISDs wouldn’t play ball so too bad. But the real reason we should not hand more big money to the …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Now friendly feds deputize Texas National Guard troops to make immigration related arrests at the border in a full reversal of past federal policy. Also, Mexico responds to massive tariff threat with pledge to deploy 10,000 of its national guard troops to the border. San Anto…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important Second Amendment ruling yesterday that properly, further entrenches the historical framing required on questions of the Bill of Rights. 18 to 20 year olds are adults and the right to possess firearms applies to them as it…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Carl Tepper has a bill, HB 1453, to further protect taxpayers from local government officials who have booted integrity and obvious right-and-wrong to the curb. The abuse of C.O. bonds has happened all across Texas with the latest kick in the teeth to voters happening in…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate has already moved school choice, Senate Bill 2, out of committee – meanwhile the BurrowCrat House leadership hasn’t even appointed permanent officers OR named House committees yet! So much for the oft made insider establishment argument that they, the insider…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Cartel gunmen opened fire on U.S. officials across the Rio Grande yesterday demonstrating how right is President Trump at naming these groups terrorist organizations. Also, Governor Abbott is deploying “tactical strike teams” to help the feds roundup illegal aliens. It’s just…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Just the tiniest point of the immigration law enforcement spear has been shown over the last few days and so far, the public seems supportive. However, don’t think that the sob stories and outright propaganda isn’t coming from the press and its Leftist backers. Will Americans…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: What did Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat coalition do yesterday on adopting House rules? Don’t buy the false messaging that comes with “they banned Democrat committee chairmen” because they did and they didn’t – it’s all a big fake. If the BurrowCrats reduced the power of T…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat leadership team’s proposed House rules try a giant fake out on voters knowing local media will ignorantly report it their way. While the Burrows’ rules end minority party (Democrat) major committee chairmanships, the rules actually enhance De…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump sprint to implement policy changes goes on. Much border related news as well as Trump action on DEI and more from the 47-on-fire stack. Trump Orders 1,500 Active Duty Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border Texas Border Czar Mike Banks Sworn-in as Chief of United States Border…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much review and comment upon the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States. Wow, he’s working fast! A record 1,300 appointees on Day One! Trump began his term with immediate action related to illegal immigration and the border. Here is a good …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Donald J. Trump was invested with the Office of the President today in the Capitol Rotunda in the City of Washington. I’m pleased to bring you his entire inaugural address. Also, I point out Democrats used the event to lie and propagandize about this being a “democracy” which…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: This week was quite historic for private sector space flight, or “capitalism in space,” and space writer and historian Bob Zimmerman joins us to touch on the highlights. Texas is playing a huge role in this new industry. Zimmerman’s website is https://behindtheblack.com/ Our …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Are local TV stations being completely honest with you when they gin up anger and tell you the local cable, or satellite, or internet TV provider is “dropping” their channel? No, they are not telling you the whole truth and are in many cases spinning the issue opposite of tru…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New Speaker of the House, Dustin BurrowCrat, delays House Rules vote until 22 January - the longest delay since the first illegitimate speaker, Joe Straus, came into office the first time. Good or bad? Time will tell but the biggest problem we have faced each session is the H…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature was gaveled into session today. Governor Abbott attended the opening of the Senate and said he wants action on bail reform and school choice. In the House, Lubbock’s Dustin Burrows, leader of the BurrowCrat Coalition, was elected Speaker of the Hous…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature comes into being tomorrow and the first order of business in the Texas House of Representatives, or should we say investment partners, is to elect a Speaker of the House. Lt. Governor Patrick, and it now seems Newt Gingrich’s group, allege that the …