Episode 3899: Another sports betting scandal is a warning | Reitz fundraising story is amazing in AG race – Pratt on Texas 1/16/2026

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The proverbial “slippery sloap” is real; only the willfully ignorant claim otherwise. Expanding sports betting is leading to scandal after scandal including a new one this week. Texans must stand strong and oppose the incremental expansion of gambling in the Lone Star State lest they find everything corrupted by the “gaming” industry.Former Abilene Christian University basketball player indicted in federal point shaving scheme.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.Two big campaign fundraising stories are remarkable. First, is just how much money Governor Abbott has and yet people keep giving big amounts. Second, GOP attorney general candidate Aaron Reitz isn’t being hyperbolic in saying what his campaign has done is unheard of – from zero to hero in a Texas political fundraising sense.Baker Hughes’ oil and gas drilling rig count for the week.Lubbock data center proposal heads to city council after planning commission rejection. Industrial things are in this area because that’s where most of the zoning is for such and has historically been so. City Council should approve this deal if for no other reason that that Adam Hernandez is against it. The first half of my life in Lubbock it was a constant mantra for NE Lubbock Democrats that “investment is going elsewhere and we need jobs in the area” then, in the last decade and a half it has been “you are harming us by putting jobs in the area.”Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com