The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, we debunk, for the umpteenth time, the big lie spread around on Texas school funding. Hint, it’s double what advocacy groups say. State Rep. Harrison Busts School Funding Myths, Pushes for Fiscal Responsibility. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allie…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lies from the dais in Lubbock County! For almost two decades I have spoken and written about the lies told to voters by local officeholders, often then repeated by local media, about property taxes. There are many who still do not believe me that elected officials openly lie …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear an expedited appeal from Attorney General Paxton in the case of the church-affiliated Annunciation House in El Paso. This is the group that has fought to keep its records secret related to its work with illegal immigrants. And, Texas…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Reports abound, investigations launched, actions taken – all for a story that didn’t read as legit from the beginning. My first take was why the heck aren’t Republicans out registering voters too!? There is nothing illegal about registering voters outside of a DPS office and …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats shoved poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Joe Biden out of Prime Time at their convention in Chicago, all so they could let other poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Democrats speak. Democrats Shove Biden Out Of DNC Primetime For Last Gasp Of Presiden…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After the home town RINO whiner, Rep. Glenn Rogers, was defeated in the Republican Primary this year, his Palo Pinto County commissioners court pals passed a slate of “electioneering regulations” designed to restrict active conservative opposition in the county. Conservatives…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today’s press review has a perfect example from one Texas county how all the property tax levying local governments’ just-a-little-more-per-month tax increases add up. Try about $1000 per year more for just the “average” taxpayer! Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The insider political deal all those years ago to indict Ken Paxton on securities fraud and then work to never let it come to trial was a political hit that blew up. Now, it has also blown up on the private lawyers that were uniquely brought in to prosecute, maybe persecute i…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The rightful indignation over the State Fair of Texas deciding to ban licensed concealed carry holders from having their guns at the fair, over an incident that demonstrated the need for such, is warranted by all involved. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is right to go afte…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish tells citizens they should “move” if they do not want to pay higher property taxes every year. He also tells Commissioner Jason Corley that the commissioner is only hearing from a small minority of voters opposing tax increases; Parrish say…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dishonest Democrat Colin Allred, the Left’s nominee to take on Ted Cruz for Texas’ U.S. Senator, is running an advert on border security trying to put his party’s border policies on the shoulders of Senator Cruz. It’s another in a long line of examples of how Democrats treat …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: “Coalition media” is not just one-sided biased, its members are often players in the political game as I’ve long explained. Sherry Sylvester writes about a Texas story that I covered that demonstrates this activism by media propagandists – a story on school choice. Our Lone S…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A big stack of the “stench of local government” stories all out of today’s press review (there are so many I’ve set aside over the last couple of weeks that we could do hours on the subject:) City of Abilene adopts budget that raises taxes for FY 2024-2025 Taxes will go up fo…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much campaign news today including a big Democrat endorsing Ted Cruz for re-election; another Democrat name changer to appeal more to Hispanics on the ballot; Abbott makes a prediction on picking up Texas House seats, and; more on what a Leftist disaster is Kamala Harris and …

Playwright, songwriter, and performer Chip Polk discusses his original play The Reckoning which is running at the Ragtown Gospel Theater in Post, Texas. Learn all about the Ragtown Gospel Theater here: https://ragtown.com/ www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: If Texas were still its own country, it would be in the Top 10 in the world in Olympic medals at this point of the Paris Games! Great piece at WFAA: How many medals have Texas athletes won at the Paris Olympics? Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Houston Chronicle and its editorial board used Hurricane Beryl as a platform and reason to disparage Texas Republican leadership going so far as to saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick failed the people. Today, in a very long four-page editorial, those same Houston Chronicle liber…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans are beginning to tarnish the Texas Miracle as they incrementally roll back fiscal discipline one legislative session at a time. Club for Growth’s new report shows what many of us have noticed but legislators don’t want to hear: Spending discipline has gone l…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Two wins for Texas (and the country) on the border and illegal immigration front: New York’s state supreme court tells New York City that it cannot stop Texas, or anyone else, from bussing migrants to the city citing well-known precedent from SCOTUS in Edwards v. California. …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Politicians dig in deeper on CenterPoint Energy and its alleged poor performance after the last hurricane to hit Houston. There is much too this story and a big part of what is missed is the problem of non-competitive government sanctioned monopolies; the PUC and the type of …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas scores a huge, $1.4 billion, settlement victory with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc) over data privacy but there is so much more that needs doing. Google is monitoring Gmail and it’s Googlegroups for political speech it doesn’t like and, the Chinese communists…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Darn it! The anti-school choice crowd is getting frustrated in Texas. They can’t even design a big poll that skews results to opposing school choice! In the latest attempt pollsters found that even when respondents agree with anti-school choice arguments those same folks stil…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The media’s attempt to cover up who Kamala Harris is, is blatant and going at full pace. The problem they have? She is so much of a say anything Leftist that there is too much out there to successfully hide. The media is currently rewriting history in an effort to help the Ha…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden blatantly lied to the American people about border crossing numbers in his free prime time campaign address from the Oval Office. And, El Paso County’s commissioners want money to jail illegal aliens arrested under Operation Lone Star – because it’s interfering with the…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Did you know that hapless V.P. Kamala Harris was NEVER the Biden Administration’s “border czar?” She was but the gaslighting media is now saying she wasn’t. Why the change? That’s obvious. Read this great piece: Nolte: Desperate Media Seek to Erase Kamala Harris Failed ‘Borde…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: As predicted, Democrats fall in line with Willie Brown’s lover to be that broken political party’s nominee for President. What about all that “democracy” they change about? What about nominating a candidate who actually fixes the problem the party had with Biden? Putting in H…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: With Joe Biden out of the the re-elect race, announced on X by the way, what will Texas delegates to the Democrat convention do? I speculate that there is so little authentic thought diversity (factions) in today’s party that there is little chance of any real showdown betwee…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Tribune has a big “social justice” story out on Lubbock and it’s full of half truths, utter ignorance, and even a lie or two. There are many things ignored by these people, the biggest of which is that people can choose to live anywhere they want and choose to build…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott talked tough at the Republican National Convention, see speech, and it has Democrats and other lib groups going nuts – with their limited knowledge and ability they once again compare us to Nazis! I have a question to turn around on one of these groups that ap…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ RINO’s, Democrats, and big businesses, especially TAB, often claim that conservative pro-family and decency legislation (those “social” issues) will hurt business in the Lone Star State. However, the last decade has shown the opposite and now two of the world’s most re…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Excuses from the U.S. Secret Service chief, the big Leftist DEI proponent, for the agency’s deadly failure Saturday now reach a level of extreme absurdity. If a very slightly sloped barn roof is too big of a “safety” issue for the Secret Service then we don’t need this partic…

In the extension of the show (15 July 2025) I have more comment on the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump; cover some Texas headlines, and: cover three important stories about Space X. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I explain why my immediate personal re-action to the attempt to murder, to assassinate, President Trump was not one of shock or surprise – differing from even close friends. It has much to do with the Soviet-style bizzaro opposite world in which we’ve been living. Roger Kimba…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Reuters, and much other press, is factually wrong carrying Biden’s propaganda that his administration is deporting more illegal aliens than did the Trump administration. Not only is it not close, the data also shows the Biden is specifically coddling, benefiting criminal alie…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Man was I right?! CenterPoint, and Entergy to a lesser extent, are becoming the public scapegoat for the unpleasantness following weak Hurricane Beryl. Interestingly, the Houston Police Dept. did not even think it needed to go on full mobilization until 24 hours after the hur…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: President Biden woke up long enough to do an “exclusive” interview with the leftwing Houston Chronicle in which he claimed he had tried hard but could not reach Governor Abbott or Lieutenant Governor Patrick about FEMA relief for Hurricane Beryl. It is a lie and also, we have…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A federal judge asked great questions of the Biden Administration’s lawyer, and had a perfect retort, in hearing the case Carroll ISD has brought against the Department of Education and its new perverted Title IX rules. Kim Roberts at The Texan had the write-up. Our Lone Star…

In this Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra, I interview marine biologist turned entrepreneur Bart Reid about his new book, out from Texas Tech University Press, about his successful, then not successful, efforts at commercially raising shrimp in the trans-Pecos desert of West Texas. This is one of the most enjoyable and interesting interviews I have done…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Senator Hughes right, does Texas’ abortion law need “further clarity” in the next legislative session? No, and the data demonstrate that Hughes is wrong. Like many he’s falling victim to politicized hospitals and pro-abortion doctors who want little more than to loosen Tex…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: We don’t have a shortage of water in Texas, like most places we have too much water in some places and not enough in others – just like with milk, oil, bread, etc. Which is more likely to assure plentiful, properly priced distribution of water: Government programs or, a free …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: At the current rate of construction, the Texas state border barrier, which is not even a wall in places, will take 30 years to complete and billions of dollars. Is it worth it given the restrictions on where the state barriers are placed and how effective it can be? Also, mor…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The not-so-conservative Texas Association of Business, TAB, which holds great lobbyist sway in the legislature, issued a report claiming Texas’ fight against the Leftist E.S.G. movement is costing local Texas taxpayers big money. Well even if it is, it is still worth the figh…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I read and marked up the full 119 pages of the Presidential immunity, Trump v. United States, decision from the U.S. Supreme Court today. It is NOT what liberal Leftists, politicians and press, say. Nor is it a free pass to Donald Trump as some early conservative leaning outl…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s all courts today, including the court of public opinion. A big win at the Texas Supreme Court to protect children Former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo and another former officer indicted over school massacre. Indictment says former police chief’s response to …

An extra double-length segment from Pratt on Texas 6/27/2024 to help get through today's news stack.

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Travis County Attorney has dismissed all trespassing charges against pro-Hamas murderer, Jew hating protesters at UT-Austin. UT is not pleased and neither should we be. Also see: What Happened to UT’s Outside Agitators? Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allie…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A fine from the so-called Texas Ethics Commission of Harris County’s leftist Judge Lina Hidalgo demonstrates well how political and UNethical is the body that parades around with ethics in its name. All it takes is a comparison of Hidalgo’s fine, for doing something that is a…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas pro-baby killing abortion people, media included, have “mislead” on a Texas infant-mortality study. What’s even more perplexing is how those who favor elective killing of babies, abortion, have also been the folks decrying high infant-mortality rates. It’s crazy that a …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much talk and action about the primary Texas electric grid, ERCOT, and our ability to adapt to accommodate massive growth in the state. But, on that very subject, the Houston Chronicle editorial board shows most all that is wrong with Democrats on issues of business …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court issued two bad rulings today. One is a rejection of Texas and New Mexico’s negotiated settlement of Rio Grande River water issues. The second is about the Second Amendment. It is a ruling most ignorant and shallow will think right but it is not – as Jus…