Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court made another step toward stopping Leftwing Democrats from perverting our nation’s foundational principles of non-discrimination. The court ruled against drawing political district lines for racial purposes – and the liberal Democrats are furious. Here is the best summary of the decision in the case of...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: When is it ever a time not to spend more money and create more specialty positions in public schools? One would think that declining enrollments, including from illegal immigration which increase the need for hard to find and expensive bilingual specialists, would be a time for public school districts to catch their fiscal b...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas gets two big court decisions. First, the U.S. Supreme Court formally puts Texas’ newest Congressional district maps in service . Second, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allows Texas’ SB4 to go into effect allowing state arrests of illegal aliens in certain situations and state court orders for deportation. The court h...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Seventh Court of Appeal for Texas slapped the City of Lubbock hard in a unanimous decision in favor of Gary Boren’s ability to run for city council . Once again (we’ve been through this before), it appears that taxpayer are paying, and paying a lot, for a substandard city legal department that is delivering a bad work pr...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A viral cut and past Facebook post on property taxes in Texas gets some general things right but perpetuates the biggest misunderstanding there is: Who raises your property tax burden? Here’s the post: Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.  If I bought my property outright for $120,000 i...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas wins at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal on its Ten Commandments in the public school classroom law. The decision makes a strong point that more citizens should understand about the “Establishment Clause” and reaction shows more of the hypocrisy of the Democrat left on “exposure” of things to children. Our Lone Star s...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s victory day for Texas, San Jacinto Day!  We review the story of this battle that was “ but a skirmish; but with what mighty consequences! ” And, thanks to a good article at The Texan , we remember one of the heroes of San Jacinto: Henry Millard who laid out and named Beaumont. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: For years non-liberal media reporting has shown serious problems, even potential crimes, by the Democrat funding machine ActBlue – even its lawyers admit the organization was untruthful. Now Texas, through Attorney General Paxton, is suing ActBlue . Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services pr...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton sues Houston over its new sanctuary city for illegal immigration rules . Mayor Whitmire cancels today’s special council meeting and moves it to next week . And, Governor Abbott sends an official letter to the City of Dallas threatening its grant funding over the same issue. Our Lone Star story of the...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Two Stench of Local Government stories today and one is a repeat we’ve seen time and again across the state. It is astounding how much money and how much time local government bureaucrats can spend when allowed free reign so to do. About all we can do to choke it down is to force adoption of the No New Revenue tax rate so th...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Enforcing America’s longstanding immigration laws – why is such a basic thing so controversial, especially with Texas cities? Polling shows majorities support enforcing these laws and political history shows that even Democrats, when they control the Congress and Executive Branch, have not done much of anything to change the...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton and Governor Abbott push Houston into reversing its newly adopted limits on police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mayor Whitmire is clearly pleased – will the council make the reversal in a special meeting this Friday to save $110 million in public safety grants? Our Lone...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Charlie Geren’s House Admin. committee finally gets around to voting to fine House Democrats who broke quorum last summer. But wait, there’s more: They don’t owe it until officially served with notice of the vote and given how long it has taken to get the vote, who knows how long that might take. Even if quickly, Dems m...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: As much as $111.5 million of your money is being spent by local governments in Texas to lobby the Legislature – often for things contrary to your interests . The amount of taxpayer funded lobbying has doubled in the last decade and involves over 1000 lobbyists. The Senate has passed bills to limit this egregious practice but...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: At the State Board of Education meeting, Democrats show they are dead set against teaching our History and show their hypocrisy over so-called “experts.” Our friend Don Frazier and Schreiner University are now suspect because the school received a grant from a conservative think-tank . Dems have never had a problem with univ...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas congressman calls out yet another DC attempt at mass amnesty for illegal aliens ; Houston trims its police cooperation with ICE due to Democrat pressure; El Paso County sues for information related to a big immigration detention facility the feds are building, and; Chip Roy wants Obama rule changed related to collectin...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  Texas local property tax appraisal notices are out and roiling households across the state. Often appraised value increases are wrong but, Texans need to understand the other side of the property tax system to put blame for tax increases where such belongs: on local elected officials. Texas cities with the biggest property...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  TX23’s now disgraced Tony Gonzales has long been held up by the RINO establishment of what a congressman should be. But it turns out he has been a sexual creep and adulterer the entire time he’s been in Congress with new evidence showing he was up to it all during his first campaign . Our Lone Star story of the day is spons...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Reverend Daniel Hinton joins us to talk about Good Friday, Holy Week, Easter, and about worship using the liturgical calendar Hinton is pastor for Christ Lutheran Church in Lubbock (an orthodox Missouri Synod Lutheran church.) (Originally ran on Good Friday, 2024.) Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compli...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  Following up yesterday’s show , I speak with Lubbock County Commissioners Jordan Rackler and Jason Corley. Do local elected officials get honest, correct information on budgeting in order to set a tax rate? Do they get the information that would let them know they could be fine with setting the property tax rate at the No N...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  While the headline plays to the bad and regular soap opera style of reporting, the story and the financial facts reported show that I, and others, have been right in our opinion all along: Lubbock County’s auditor, with support from Judge Curtis “Bowtie Bully” Parrish, has been misleading officials as well as has been pushi...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day:  A story about a judge in Harris County set me off. We have become such a weakling, pansy society that we will not be able to take out the directed energy of China and other competitors unless our populace decides to grow up and toughen up. Headline: Harris County judge’s harsh treatment of IT worker goes viral . What “harsh...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ $1.3 Billion Fix to Cool Deadly Hot Prisons Goes to Trial – these lawsuits are ridiculous as Texas is spending huge money to address the problem. Pitman and other federal judges too often want the cache of controlling the states. And even at the most inflated number estimating deaths in Texas prisons due to, or exacer...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much to detest about the Flock surveillance camera company and its odd utopianist founder as well as many reasons governments should not allow the private firm’s cameras to be recording all of our movements. Why would anyone believe the firm takes seriously data privacy when it didn’t even care enough to be properly...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Census Bureau has released new numbers and while Texas urban areas continue to grow, a bit slower, Dallas County actually lost residents . People, and businesses, keep choosing to move to the exurban areas over the Democrat dominated, and poorly run, core cities. “Among some of the largest metro areas, the fastest-g...