Pratt On Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker of the Texas House Phelan issues interim charges to members which are a good signpost of his priorities. Some of the items are fine and needed but what is missing appears to indicate that Phelan supports the immoral societal agenda of the Left.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 Supreme Court rules properly that the plain language of Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Bill does not allow the state, including medical licensing boards, to enforce the bill. This is a big loss for the abortion/baby killing industry and the case returns to the federal 5th Circuit.Behindtheblack.com’s Bob Zimmerman on how the Biden administration is putting the future of SpaceX’s giant South Texas facility and investment at risk.Judge Janis Jack and other progressives fool themselves that one can  out-policy sinful human behavior

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. and Mexico border crisis is worse than ever; Texas is spending huge amounts of our money and yet that spending has proven largely ineffectual, and; D.C. Democrats just passed an giant omnibus spending bill that provides massive border security funding, not for us but, for other countries like Libya, Jordan, Egypt and more!Abbott’s Operation Lone Star is finally being expanded beyond two counties but not by much and the whole thing has inarguably done nothing to discourage illegal crossings as we keep setting new “record levels.” We just lock some of them up and get them fed and healthy with taxpayer funded medical care and meals and then turn them over to the feds who release them into the country. This is not sound policy. If it worked it would be great but it has not worked and thus is wasting huge amounts of our money.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT,

On today's Pratt on Texas, I talk with economist Vance Ginn on the dangers of inflation. This originally aired on 17 December 2021.Vance Ginn, PhD, is the chief economist at the Foundation. Ginn works to unlock poverty through relational, inclusive changes in institutions that expand opportunities to let people prosper. He is a prolific writer and a leading free market economist.Ginn works on many policy areas that support human flourishing. He leads the Foundation’s development of policy recommendations to limit government spending and eliminate burdensome regulations so that taxpayer dollars can be directed to effective programs and to those targeted for help, while strengthening inclusive institutions at the state, local, and federal levels. Ginn also develops and leads a multi-state welfare improvement initiative, known as the Opportunity Project.During four Texas legislative sessions, Ginn fought for and won many good-government reforms to let people prosper: several Conservative Texas Budgets, stronger

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott has tasked the TEA commissioner to assemble a task force to look into public school teacher shortages. Why now? We began the last school year with a record number of teachers employed, as well as administrators, and the lowest attrition level in a decade. The Democrats, in the press, are using this as a reason to call for more money for teachers but districts are mostly awash in cash. How about a competitive market instead of the government socialist market for education which would benefit teachers as well as students and their families?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 the “War of the baggage” that is the GOP runoff for attorney general, P. Bush just added a steamer trunk sized bit to what’s weighing him down.Is Kelsey Warren’s lawsuit again O’Rourke warranted? It raises serious legal q

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: President Biden and many Democrats would rather fund our enemies than let Texas and the domestic oil and gas industry flourish. Even in the threat of war these people practice their cultish “green energy” faith. Biden is coming to Texas tomorrow but not to cheer on the oil and gas industry and encourage it to produce more so we don’t have to fund Putin’s takeover of Ukraine by buying Russian oil, nope, he’s coming to Fort Worth to talk about some VA healthcare issue.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: Longview burglar picks the wrong woman’s house.Attorney General Paxton gets a big runoff endorsement from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.Harris County botched the primary elections worse than we already know. Not only did they take almost 30 hours to count the vote, we now know that they left 10,000 ball

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Today's press review contains examples of how the Texas press will completely mischaracterize a story to attack Republican officials. During a primary runoff in which Attorney General Ken Paxton is a candidate, the Hearst papers have run a headline that dishonestly paints Paxton as having engaged in fraud when in reality the story is one of the state getting a big win over Medicaid cheats. Then, after much criticism of Paxton for having the state sue Twitter, the state press doesn't bother to report Twitter's second loss in its counter suit claiming the case is merely political retribution.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 a look toward the May 7th uniform election date, I interview Tray Payne, candidate for mayor of the City of Lubbock.Oddly the Texas rig count fell this week.Another La Joya ISD offici

Podcast Extra: More interview with Tray Payne, candidate for Lubbock mayor. Here the first two segments of the interview in the podcast of the Pratt on Texas show for 3/4/2022.

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Strategist Sherry Sylvester, a key person in years past behind Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, joins me for a high altitude look at the Republican Primary result - what happened and maybe more importantly what did not happen Tuesday.Even today the Texas press contains stories about how Senate Bill 1, the voter integrity law, kept people from voting but it's simply untrue and Sylvester points out that turnout was equal to historical norms.And, Sylvester terms the GOP runoff for Attorney General the "war of the baggage" in which we'll have to see which candidate is weighed down the most.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.TX3: The wages of sin are political death for U.S. Rep. Van Taylor as he is forced into a runoff for the GOP nomination and then withdraws as he admits an affair with a former ISIS jihadist!And, other n

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Primary election review with an interview from election night with state Senator Charles Perry (SD28) on the amazingly expensive House District 84 race which is headed to a runoff.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.State sales tax collections up again.It is Texas Independence Day and we celebrate in song and word. In the 4th segment I read the Texas Declaration of Independence.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: On primary election day Democrats are doing what Democrats do: Cheat and claim voters are being disenfranchised. In Maverick Co. Dems lied and told Republicans there were no candidates on the GOP ballot forcing them to vote in the Democrat primary. In the RGV, Dems are attacking each other claiming disenfranchisement of local voters. And, all along Democrats (that’s the folk in the press too) tell Republicans to stop talking about fraud and cheating.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.Today is Texas political party primary election day. I explain again why I believe the Texas GOP needs a gubernatorial runoff. You’ve until 7pm to vote.Texas wins Site Selection magazine’s Governor’s Cup for the 10th year in a row for corporate relocations. That and other economic news.More evidence those convention center hotel

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Tomorrow is Texas political party primary election day and if and how you vote will help determine what kind of people we will be. A rundown of recommendations and an interview with HD84 candidate Carl Tepper.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.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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This is PART 2: "Most of the past forty-eight hours have been spent either in, or en route to and from, the Midland-Odessa region. Far out in west Texas’s Permian Basin, the two cities — towns, really — have a relationship that I still can’t quite unpack. On my last visit, which turned out to be the first time I ever actually set foot in Odessa, a woman told me: “Midland is where you raise families. Odessa is where you raise hell.” She was from Odessa," began a column by Joshua Treviño that was heavily focused on the spirit of small business oil and gas risk taking in the Permian Basin.This two part if podcast is a discussion of that piece and the subject in general.Joshua Treviño is the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which role he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CIO, he was vice president of strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was vice presi

This is PART 1: "Most of the past forty-eight hours have been spent either in, or en route to and from, the Midland-Odessa region. Far out in west Texas’s Permian Basin, the two cities — towns, really — have a relationship that I still can’t quite unpack. On my last visit, which turned out to be the first time I ever actually set foot in Odessa, a woman told me: “Midland is where you raise families. Odessa is where you raise hell.” She was from Odessa," began a column by Joshua Treviño that was heavily focused on the spirit of small business oil and gas risk taking in the Permian Basin.This two part if podcast is a discussion of that piece and the subject in general.Joshua Treviño is the Chief of Intelligence and Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in which role he explores pathways for future Foundation action and develops forecasts for Texas and the nation. Prior to his service as CIO, he was vice president of strategy at the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago. Prior to that, he was vice presi

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: A Listener Club member asks: How do you know the primary elections in which David Glasheen [HD84 race] did or did not vote? Is this public information? I answer and explain that yes it is public information and that if the records are correct Mr. Glasheen has not officially been a Texas Republican since 2008. See the full detail here: Listener: How do you know when Glasheen did and did not vote? David Glasheen’s voting record.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.AG Paxton sues Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for unlawfully prohibiting firearm supressors in Texas as provided for in HB957 passed this last session.I replay our latest interviews with the two battling it out for Lubbock Co. commissioner, Precinct 4: Incumbent Chad Seay and challenger Jordan Rackler. Remember that all candidate i

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House District 84 race in Lubbock county sees astronomical spending and yet leaves me befuddled as to just what type of “Republican” is the big spender, trial lawyer David Glasheen. Glasheen’s wife Mary is featured in ads telling all her husband a “real Republican and true conservative.” How would Mary know? According to records she’s not voted in the Republican Primary but did vote in the 2016 Democratic Primary – who for, Bernie or Hillary? Then David, the “real Republican and true conservative” appears not to have bothered voting in Republican Primaries from 2012 all the way through 2020! That’s skipping out on some major elections including the Beto vs. Ted Cruz race!Brad Johnson of The Texan has a good write-up on the HD84 race.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.San Antonio’s money losing conv

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Governor Greg Abbott gets blamed for many things for which it is doubtful he did wrong, as do most leaders, but he also gets a pass from too many Texans for things he didn’t do. He rarely chooses to lead but simply waits to see what the fallout is for actual leaders and then moves. Abbott is a follower for the purpose of political positioning. It doesn’t make him a bad person or a bad governor in all things but it does keep Texas from moving forward on issues even Abbott eventually, sometimes years later, signs on to. The issue of child “sex changes” and the border are perfect examples of Abbott’s stalling and waiting game.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.Liberal publication claims new election integrity laws are making “advocates struggle” with “new voting barriers” in Texas. What do any of us care

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: San Antonio leading the way in Texas local governments actively working to subvert and undermine immigration law. Not only this, by handing out these library card ID’s they are jeopardizing public safety as it seems people take these as official ID’s and there are not background checks on the people to whom they are issued. This must be stopped by the legislature just as it had to stop cities from refusing to cooperate with federal immigration agencies.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.Attorney General Ken Paxton issues opinion that shouldn’t have been necessary in sane or moral society: Sex change drugs or surgery on children is child abuse under Texas law. Read more here.The shredding of freedom and right to protest under “progressive” tyranny isn’t just in Canada, the same is underway in the USA.And, oth

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe we have lost, like Canada, our fundamental commitment to freedom and liberty if a story from WFAA out of Colleyville is any measure. Since when is speech itself, even if nasty, hateful, and vile, a “hate crime” in the USA?! Bigots have as much right to call me a “white devil” as I have a right to call them bigots. The answer to speech with which you disagree is more speech – better, more persuasive speech.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.Electric vehicle owners are not paying their share of road taxes because such are levied on gasoline. That must end now and also, we don’t need to subsidize “charging stations” for them as that’s a job for existing businesses such as gas stations and convenience stores.Anti-Wimp update out of Dallas.Piano: Nina Lelchuk Memorial Concert from New York City, Lubbock’s D

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Tribune publishes major story on the Texas capitol power structure focused upon Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in which it is reported that Patrick, I guess as unhappy with Abbott as many other conservatives, attempted to recruit former Gov. Rick Perry to challenge Abbott this time around. Other than that bit, the story is a cogent account of things already known such as Patrick leads on conservative issues and makes life hard on senators who act as RINOs and has real problems with the anti-conservatism of House leadership and Speaker Phelan.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 candidate interviews. Today we feature Senate District 31 candidate, and Trump’s pick, Kevin Sparks of Midland. This is the seat being vacated by RINO Kel Seliger of Amarillo. Also we have a first time visit with Samuel Weatherby who i