Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Our official dentist for Pratt on Texas is here – in studio! We visit with Dr. Silvia Zuñiga about the family of Pratt on Texas listeners that has developed since listeners have been going to her for dental care in Costa Rica going back to 2014.  https://prattontexas.com/dento-care/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 Tech gets a procedural win in federal court in the case of the law school lefty who is alleged to have celebrated the murder of peaceful conservative activist Charlie Kirk.You know what you get with little Jimmy “the creep” Talarico as a Senator? You get more of terrible Obama from the open border to the soft on crime policies. Obama campaigns for Talarico in Austin.Interesting: Ex-Texas Lottery Director quietly indicted – then unindicted.We remember the great Bob Wills. He died this day in 1975.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Campaign news including new polling in two big Houston-area Congressional runoffs; Cornyn flips on gas tax reprieve; Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna considering a bid to run for chairman of the Republican National Committee – she’s a Trump ally and among the more conservative members of Congress, she also is strongly opposed to TX19 GOP runoff candidate Abraham Enriquez.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.Thanks to Attorney General Paxton the City of San Antonio is now following the law when it comes to licensed concealed carry at city hall.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The GOP primary runoff race for Texas Railroad Commissioner has an element to it of which voters should be aware: The challenger is being bankrolled by folks angry at a specific decision taken by the RRC. A Houston Chronicle story gets it about as accurate as can be: Railroad Commission runoff exposes bitter divide in Texas oil industry. If you read it you can tell that it’s not a 50/50 split but most against a few.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.Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar faces removal attempt following indictment.May 11th is a big day for Texas tornado history: The great Lubbock tornado of 1970 – westernmost F5/EF5 tornado recorded in the United States. 1953 Waco tornado outbreak – On the same day as the Waco disaster, a high-end F4 tornado struck San Angelo, causing catastrophic damage. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas 19th Congressional District Republican runoff candidate Abraham Enriquez joins us for half of the show to discuss his race against Tom Sell. His website is here: Abraham Enriquez for Congress.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.Oil and gas rotary rig count from Baker Hughes rises again in Texas.Paxton vs. Cornyn: Another poll this week shows Paxton with a commanding lead over Cornyn in the GOP primary runoff election. Read the summary here.Bad news!: You won’t be able to get Fredericksburg peaches this year.Texas Tech paid $3.5 million for adjacent historic house for its new chancellor, $1.2 million more than the estimated market value. Always easy to negotiate soft when you are using other people’s money!Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Queer Raiders and others hold a fake “funeral” for “academic freedom” at Texas Tech because they are so queered-up they don’t realize that they are simply reminding the public of how, even at Texas Tech, so-called academic freedom has strayed from scientific Truth. Wake For The Woke: Texas Tech Funeral For Gender Programs Texas Tech students plan on-campus funeral for academic freedom Texas Tech’s targeted grad research warnings draw concern – this story is quite ridiculous as it tries to claim doing the action correctly with the most personalization is somehow terrible. Dr. Steven Balch well explained on yesterday’s show what academic freedom was defined as by the AAUP – it isn’t anything like what today’s perverts and Leftists claim it to be.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.Local sales tax receipt numbers released, it’s up 7.7 percent of same period last year. Look up your city here.Attorney General Paxton investigating several school districts over compliance with SB10 & SB11. Lubbock ISD, Abilene ISD, Wichita Falls ISD, and many more are on the list.Two Muslim related stories: One is correct action by the state for breaking the law, the other is not and yet it is being praised by many of short sight.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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!  Today we talk about this term “academic freedom” that so many on campus are throwing about, claiming such is under attack by new laws in Texas and elsewhere.Two, of many, recent stories I had in the stack are the background for the interview: Former Texas Tech professors criticize course content changes, cite academic freedom concerns Left-Wing Faculty Association Threatens To File Complaints with TAMU, Texas Tech Accreditor Dr. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009. Balch received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1964. He received his master’s degree (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) in political science from the University of California in Berkeley. It was during the Berkeley riots that he became a conservative and he is now a Republican. Dr. Balch was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at the White House on November 15, 2007. The award cited him “for leadership and advocacy upholding the noblest traditions in higher education,” and went on to say that “his work on behalf of reasoned scholarship in a free society has made him a leading champion of excellence and reform at our nation’s universities.”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.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out on the Texas Republican Primary runoff election and there are few surprises but one thing of big interest to me: The “Latino” vote doesn’t seem to follow the old RINO idea that we should comprise our conservatism to gain Hispanic votes. See the full poll here.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 sales tax revenue for April grew almost 10 percent over April of 2025.53,000 More Texas Students Awarded School Choice Funding Based on Income.About Cinco de Mayo and why it’s good to celebrate a little!Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Election notes: Republican Brett Ligon easily wins the special election for Texas Senate District 4. Lubbock re-elects McBrayer mayor by 70%. An Obama Marxist organizer got over 40% of the vote in Lubbock’s District 3 (Bruegel won it with 54%) Abilene has a runoff for city council Place 4 between Tammy Fogle and Benjamin Bailey. (Fogle is a friend of the show.) Dallas ISD voters pass $6.2 billion in bond debt on themselves Fort Worth voters double mayor and council member salaries Texas Supreme Court further humiliates Lubbock Co.’s Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish. National Democrats are making moves in TX15 and TX35. 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: Driver saves women & children, shoots carjacker in Garland.Texas wins again, this time its a “triple crown”: Texas Wins 2026 Prosperity Cup As Top State For Job-Creating Business Investment.Some bad news on the pro-life front today: Supreme Court temporarily restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies. Pro-Choicers recognize that abortion is too evil to even describe; watch Rep. Brandon Gill in action.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas apparently has a problem with process servers who lie and it is a serious issue. Now there is a call for more regulation and stronger licensing rules but those things will not stop the dishonest. Fix it with very strong civil and criminal penalties and make it easier to prosecute them for dishonesty but don’t grow government over the 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.The Texas Supreme Court has slammed the door shut, a door which should never have been opened, on the retail get-high drug business by ruling on the Delta-8 drug loophole. Too bad this couldn’t have come a few years ago.Oil and gas drilling rig count climbed this week in Texas.Too bad local area media will not do the job but at least the Houston Chronicle is willing to tell the Toby Neugebauer story: This Texas billionaire’s nuclear-powered data center company faces collapse (Fermi America.)Pope Taps Former Illegal Alien and a DEI Warrior As Leading US Bishops.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.  www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: More on the collapsing race-based political system the Democratic Party has used to gain power. A follow-up on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that was discussed here.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.Talarico leads Cornyn, Paxton in Senate matchups, UT poll finds. Full polling detail.Governor Abbott demands Teacher Retirement System of Texas further lower Medicare Advantage costs.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 Louisiana v. Callais.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.The Texas Tribune and Votebeat published a long feature story on Texas political party primary elections that, while containing much accurate information, is based on a falsehood, a false premise.Attorney General Paxton sues Houston-area “Birth Tourism” center for exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals into Texas for the sole purpose of giving birth.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 breaths. But no, it’s just another crisis that needs more money despite the fact declining enrollments vastly lower expenses.Plus other border and immigration news: CBS report marvels that once-chaotic southern border crossing has gone quiet under Trump crackdown Trump Immigration Agenda Upends West Texas US Attorney’s Office Mexican Navy Cracks Down on Gulf Cartel’s Fuel Smuggling Operation near Texas Border State Department Warns About Cartel Violence in Mexican Border City Following Commander’s Arrest | Reynosa Wakes to Narco Blockades After Capture of Regional Metros Officer 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.Dallas Fed reports: Texas service sector resumes growth in April.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of the law but is allowing it to go into effect while the battle is waged a the district court level.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.Dallas Fed survey: Texas manufacturing expansion strengthens in April.Related to the latest nutjob Leftist trying to murder the president and top officials: Barack Obama Is Still Annoying | National Review First Lady Melania Trump Blasts ‘Coward’ Jimmy Kimmel, Urges ABC to Pull the Plug “You Should be Ashamed of Yourself” – Trump Blasts ’60 Minutes’ Anchor Norah O’Donnell to Her Face For Reading WHCD Shooter’s Manifesto Illegal migrant ‘cannibal’ attacks 3-year-old in San Antonio park, the Biden admin fumbled ‘completely preventable’ assault.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 product. Looks like yet another area of needed reform in the Hub City. Gary Boren visits with us about the unanimous ruling in his (and our) favor.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.Cornyn ran Spanish language advert in 2020 calling for amnesty for all under Obama’s illegal DACA program – pulled the ad off of YouTube when it was noticed recently.Baker Hughes oil and gas rotary rig count rises in Texas.Houston gets back to being right with ICE cooperation, Dallas and Austin are on the way with Gov. Abbott moving their deadline for compliance until Monday. Holly Hansen tells the story very well at The Texan.Texas Supreme court removed injunctions stopping the state from investigating families trying to medically change the sex of their children.Two gun rights issue in the news: Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Legal Victory to Protect Gun Owners from Federal Overreach by Blocking Biden-Era Gun Sale Rule Texas AG Paxton Loses New Try to Override Dallas Gun Ban – legislators need to get this fixed in the next session. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 in 2001 Now the county says it’s worth $499,100. Did I sell it? No. Did I make a profit? No. Did I get a check for $499,100? No. But my taxes jumped like I did. That’s the problem. This isn’t income. This isn’t cash. This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it. If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell. If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax. So why does owning a home work differently? Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains? A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money. You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it. This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.” It’s about being charged for value you never received. And people are starting to notice.  COPY & PASTE this to Your page, this needs to be on everyone’s mind…With few exceptions, the increased appraised value of your property did NOT raise your property taxes, local politicians did. They get away with it year after year because people think it was the appraisal that did it – and many politicians expressly lie to the public to perpetuate this blame shifting. Read more here.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.Governor Abbott tells Houston PD it had better get with the ICE program and until it does, the money is “no longer flowing.”  And, the City of Austin also changed its policing policy with ICE and is facing big money losses. It is negotiating with Gov. Abbott.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

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 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.Chip Roy, in a GOP runoff for Texas’ attorney general, is praised by a Leftist Soros funded group for blocking a key pro-law enforcement bill in Congress.Judge Albright, Texas Patent Magnet, leaving bench in August.Mayor Whitmire, Houston council pass amendments to ICE policy as Greg Abbott threatens funding.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Texas restaurant owners sounding alarm over immigrant labor shortages – what utter hypocrisy.Tanker Arrives at Golden Pass Texas Facility for Inaugural LNG Export.Michael and Susan Dell make huge gift to the University of Texas to establish an AI-native medical and research center.Governor Abbott, LCRA announce the Timmerman Power Plant is fully operational, a month early!Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Texas wins again! 22nd year in a row ranked as the Best State for Business. Other Lone Star State business news: Blue Orgin’s New Glenn ruins Midland-based AST SpaceMobile’s launch of BlueBird 7 Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer out, new management takes over. (from the I-told-you-so file.) American shoots down United merger talk Anti-Wimp update: Prepared Texan stops home invasion in Houston.Houston Mayor Whitmire calls Greg Abbott ICE fight futile; experts disagree. Whitmire says city may “amend” ordinance instead of repeal.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Fundraising totals for key Texas Congressional runoffs, including TX19, and November races: The Texan and The Texas Voice.Governor Abbott doubles down, calls on Texas Supreme Court to remove Rep. Gene “BooHoo” Wu from office over 2025’s House quorum bust.Baker Hughes oil and gas rig count unchanged this week.Texas Economy Hits Record $2.9 Trillion.Texas emerges as the top destination for companies leaving blue states– the new part of this is the “whole package” coming with our court system reforms.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 that increases in income are a bit more limited. City of Dallas looks to regulate churches, nonprofits distributing free food Austin interim police chief got $766K payout under unusual deal 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.John Cornyn outraises Ken Paxton as Senate runoff looms. Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico way outraised both of them, as reported yesterday.Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at the University of Texas yesterday: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warns of polarization’s impact At UT lecture, Clarence Thomas says America’s values under are threat Two more immigration sob stories from today’s press review, such are in the media daily, and in both cases, we discover that no, they didn’t follow the law. After a month in detention, a Venezuelan family self deports Longtime immigration court interpreter arrested by ICE at South Texas airport Attorney General Ken Paxton victorious in suit against Live Nation in court.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.  www.PrattonTexas.com

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 laws. But we’re in a media propaganda storm telling all that most everyone is against enforcing immigration law. Texas cities try to address citizen anger over immigration crackdown without riling state leaders Abbott eyes other Texas cities’ ICE policies after threatening Houston Ugly fight breaks out at City Hall as police union and council trade blows 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.Ken Paxton’s work as attorney general nets two very important wins for Americans: Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Win Alongside the FTC to Stop Advertising Agencies that Conspired to Censor Conservative Commentators, News Agencies, and Social Media Platforms Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Win Alongside The Daily Wire and The Federalist by Defeating Media Censorship Attempts by the Corrupt Biden Administration Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico raises a bunch of money from fellow creepy anti-American leftists.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 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.Travis County-based District Judge put the discriminatory HUB program back on track, sets a trial date to determine if “Acting Comptroller” Kelly Hancock had the authority to gut the program. May turn out to be yet another Hancock bungle.Kristin Tips deep-sixed as chairwoman of the Texas Funeral Service Commissionfollowing several years of agency troubles.TX23’s Tony Gonzales resigns from Congress over sexual improprieties. How he and Swalwell’s resignations affect the U.S. House balance of power.Lubbock city council race news: Gary Boren says city hired Fort Worth law firm to handle simple appeal response to his case over ballot denial. Word is that the city had on its own website, until recently, that one only needed to be a resident upon filing to run for city council – exactly Boren’s legal argument.“Higher” education news: Texas A&M Regents Name New TAMU Presiden: Susan Ballabina Texas Tech law student sues over discipline for Charlie Kirk reaction Baylor to host homosexual ‘Christian’ speakers at TPUSA counter event Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 may not pay with personal funds rendering the penalty much ado about nothing. In responding BooHoo Wu qualifies as a Captain Obvious contestant.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.Another edition of Talarico Tales: Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico says that police in schools enhances a culture of violence; sought to force hiring of 4 social worker counselors for every one police officer at a public school campus. This guy is not just a nutjob, he’s the whole fruit basket of crazy.Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declares 158-year-old U.S. home distilling ban unconstitutional. It’s a panel of the court and the decision may be appealed. It only applies to states, like Texas, that are in the 5th Circuit at present so I’d wait a bit before firing up that still at home.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 it’s in the House, including under BurrowCrat Speaker Dustin Burrows, that the good reform bills die.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.Baker Hughes oil and gas drilling rig report.Anti-Wimp update: Car burglar stopped by armed Arlington owner.San Antonio’s big Northeast ISD may face takeover due to refusal to fully implement cellphone ban.Several DEI-related stories today involving Texas state universities: Texas Tech system to cut sexual orientation and gender identity degree programs Professor Who Manufactured ‘Plato Censorship’ Hoax Resigns from Texas A&M; liberal SMU takes him aboard. Undercover Video Shows Continued DEI at UNT. Attorney General Ken Paxton investigates UNT officials over DEI policies, calls for firing staff member who bragged about illegal teachings. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 university “experts” fully funded by Leftwing grant money!And also as you’d expect, advocates of Islam are upset that radical Islamic terror is tied to, well, Islam in the history curriculum! Plus, they want Islam portrayed, quite wrongly, as being influential in American and Texas History.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.Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says that the Texas House of Reps. could have a Democrat takeover this cycle. Dems have gained big in the past in certain cycles but Patrick doesn’t provide any evidence that Dems could pick up the seats needed to take the majority this time around. Would Burrows remain Speaker if they did? He was elected such by Democrats.Record oil production in West Texas helps stabilize U.S. supply amid Iran war. Yes, and this is by Republican design and only exists because we have fought back the Democrats policies to hobble production and refining.Will Abilene’s mayor and council members commit to adopting the No New Revenue Rate for this next year, avoiding another property tax increase? Report shows the city flush with revenue.Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Documents from Over 1,000 Municipalities as Part of New Effort to Stop Cities From Illegally Raising Taxes.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 collecting immigration data in public schools – but why now and not years ago? Well he wasn’t in a GOP runoff for Texas attorney general back then.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.Local government sales tax collection report for April released. Look up your city here.Texas Tribune’s dishonest headline and reporting picked up by large amount of state’s media: Texas to pay $700 million in SNAP penalties to the feds. No, Texas isn’t to pay $700 million per year. Texas will only have to pay if it doesn’t reduce a specific error rate to under 6 percent by 2027.Acclaimed Taylor Sheridan to produce & direct Alamo Battle film for new Alamo museum.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

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 tax burdens Lubbock homeowners see property appraisals increase as the city continues to grow – growth doesn’t mean higher values in all cases. O’Hair: Lubbock’s appraisal district management antagonistic toward taxpayers, full board needs electing Pratt on Texas columns and more on Texas property taxes 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.Once again, after being proven wrong time and again, the Left claims that work requirements for food welfare, SNAP or food stamps, will kill tens of thousands of people: Report: More than 2,500 Texans could die as result of new SNAP requirements.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.  www.PrattonTexas.com

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 sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.New City Hall shenanigans in Lubbock to keep taxpayer friendly Gary Boren off the ballot in an upcoming special election. The city secretary appears to be completely wrong on this matter (remember the secretary is hired directly by the council and thus is subject to political pressure.)New LNG export facility in East Texas, Golden Pass LNG, has its first “train” coming on line at the right time market-wise.Texas sales tax collections were up 10 percent in March report over March of last year. Texas employment boom continues: The Lone Star State added 40,100 jobs in January.Our friend Richard Meek gets big write-up in Texas Tech publication.Follow NASA’s Artemis II mission at behindtheblack.com.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 calendarHinton 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 Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 New Revenue Rate or, are they numbers they are given skewed to support more spending, by those presenting the numbers, who have a stake in more local government spending?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.Oil and gas drilling rig count rises slightly. $100 oil is back. Why aren’t Texas oil companies drilling?We get an update on NASA’s Artemis II rocket launch from noted space historian Bob Zimmerman. Keep up with all at behindtheblack.com.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 pushing policy decisions she has no business chiming in upon. The question becomes: Is it form ignorance and incompetence or, is it to push the Parrish dream of substantially larger county government.Make no mistake, this misdirection from the auditor effected GOP runoff races in both commissioner precinct one and four races.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 developments in Texas Killing Fields murders: Texas Killing Fields: Man indicted in Laura Miller, Audrey Cook deaths Tim Miller says man charged in Texas Killing Fields reached out to him TDCJ’s estimated cost to fully cool Texas prisons rises to $1.5 billion – coverage of the bench trial.Watching the launch of the Artemis-2 mission.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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” treatment? This is nothing, nothing!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.TX9 GOP runoff: Mealer gets backing of Don Huffines.A big piece in the Texas Tribune on the GOP Railroad Commission runoff. I backed Jim Wright and stand by that. Bo French is talking nothing about the oil and gas business or anything else that has anything to do with the Railroad Commission.Texas Service Sector was steady in March according to the Dallas Fed report.Big growth in the Rio Grande Valley: Cowen: SpaceX has generated roughly $99 million in tourism-related economic impact; $13 billion into the regional economy. I sent this to our friend Bob Zimmerman and he had an important political point to make. Cowen: Port of Brownsville contributing an ‘astounding’ $11.9 billion to Texas’ GDP Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 exacerbated by, heat, is that number actually any greater than that of the non-prison population?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.Student dead after shooting teacher at Hill Country Preparatory College High School in Comal ISD.Texas manufacturing continues to grow according to the Dallas Fed.The Texas Supreme Court rightly ends 2021 winter storm litigation against power generators.Paxton wins CPAC poll more than 3 to 1 over Cornyn, gets CPAC endorsement in U.S. Senate GOP runoff race. In speech, Paxton says he’ll be more like Senator Ted Cruz and look out for Texas as opposed to Cornyn’s DC values.TX19 Runoff: Several former candidates endorse Tom Sell.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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 licensed in Texas? Texas says Flock surveillance violated state law over licensing 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.Oil and gas rig count falls despite high prices.Lieutenant Governor Patrick releases more charges to interim Senate committees.Perry’s Steakhouse Ordered to Pay $21.2 Million for Tip Theft– and Mr. Perry himself is on the hook, no corporate veil protects. All business that involve tips should read this.Dallas County jury awards $1.1 billion in child abuse case against stepfather tied to early Humble Oil fortune.We remember the massacre of Texans at Goliad. For podcast listeners, here is Brian Burns’ great song Goliad.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

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-growing counties tended to be on the outer edges, a pattern especially pronounced in Texas,” the Census Bureau reported today.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 House of Reps. leader, founder of the BurrowCrat coalition, Dustin Burrows released a very long list of interim study charges for House committees. He also created three new committees – and the unwieldy bureaucracy of the Texas House just grows and grows so that enough members get fancier titles and a little more budget money.Embattled Johnson County sheriff to be arrested for aggravated perjury in connection with sexual harassment allegations.Wichita Falls lawyer among those discipline by the Texas Bar.Fifth Circuit revives homebuilder’s Sherman Act antitrust suit against Mansfield. Mansfield has acted as a monopoly outside its own city limits in the often abused extraterritorial jurisdiction.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.     www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the campaign stack today including: Aaron Reitz Endorses Mayes Middleton in Attorney General Runoff – so do I Democrat whines at not being included on interim committees Cornyn says he will not speak at CPAC as he’s busy with his work in Washington– CPAC is being held in Texas where Cornyn has been campaigning for over a year and which he supposedly represents! He really is just a man of the DC Swamp. Cornyn Camp Slams Paxton Over Alleged Misuse of Taxpayer Funds– where, what, when? There is nothing here but saying something of some type might have happened. 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.Enmity between Hancock (Chief Clerk!) and Paxton blows up. (more) Frankly, Paxton’s office gave Hancock what he wanted and now he’s casting stones at the AG’s office for his own failure – I explain in the show.The Corpus Christi water debacle gets saltier; effort begins to remove mayor.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out in the Texas Republican primary runoff race for U.S. Senate between Ken Paxton and ol’ John Cornyn. One might say about it: The more things change, the more things remain the same. Paxton is leading Cornyn and as expected has picked up the majority of Wesley Hunt voters. See the full breakdown from Quantus here.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: Incident leads to home invasion; homeowner was ready for action.Federal court in Texas strikes down FinCEN’s horrible real estate surveillance rule that burdened title companies with big expenses and fines. Hub City Title’s Lee Williams discusses the issue with us.Microsoft to rent data center expansion in Abilene from which Oracle backed away.TEA orders public schools to suspend instruction and activities related to the nasty Cesar Chavez. Also, new leadership for Fort Worth ISD announced.UNT to cut its leftwing Women’s and Gender Studies minor.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Democrat voters in San Antonio and Bexar County racists? Didn’t they know that they are supposed to vote in the Democrat primary election according to DEI principles? I examine the liberal hand wringing over Dems voting against black judges in Bexar County.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.Oil and gas rig count falls despite rising prices.Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announces new chairmen of Senate standing committees, fills vacancies, and creates interim select committees. Patrick also sets up select committee on religious liberty.Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla to Build Advanced Chip Factories in Austin.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: I recently mentioned the recent Forbes magazine story on Michael Novogratz who ended up owning the little data center in very rural Dickens County. Well, it’s in the news in a big way today: Massive $3.5 BILLION expansion planned at data center in Dickens County owned by Novogratz’s firm Galaxy.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 Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico Tales: Talarico called out for suggesting men in women’s sports is ‘far right conspiracy’ – said it wasn’t happening in Texas but of course it was.More on the bursting of the César Chávez bubble. Lubbock’s Democrats want to rename the street after Huerta who was César Chávez’s enabler! (As I well covered in yesterday’s show.) Gov. Abbott says Texas will not honor the state holiday (that should have never been passed) and lawmakers should take it off the calendar.4 Islamic schools admitted to Texas school choice program after suing.Texas traffic stop under scrutiny after video shows woman’s arrest. In this case it appears, after watching all video, she is 100% in the wrong and is the one who “escalated” the situation needlessly.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: News from the campaign stack including more little Jimmy Talarico Tales: Talarico faces backlash over viral anti-meat, pro-vegan comments Talarico insists that white people are inherently racist, spread “virus” of racism Talarico’s Dangerous Record on Taxes: Opposing Income Tax and Death Tax Bans TX32: Jace Yarbrough is GOP nominee in North Texas congressional district after second-place finisher bows out TX15: Democrat Bobby Pulido faces scrutiny over controversial music video, posts Deadline to withdraw from runoff passes, neither Cornyn or Paxton withdraws while Trump still plays with an endorsement 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 Education Agency Investigating Islamic-Tied Charter School.In Leftism, the ends always justify the means. They take such straight from Marx and in the César Chávez SCAM Dolores Huerta knew! Don’t give her victim status, she knew what ol’ C.C. was about and didn’t tell because it might hurt the “movement.” Scum all around. Texas Values had the best take on the scam’s disclosure: Texas Values Calls for Austin ISD to Restore Good Friday; Cancel Cesar Chavez/ Dolores Huerta Day Amid Child Sex Abuse Allegations.Lubbock to get Chick-fil-A distribution center. Abilene regains United Express flights. Will connect to Denver and Houston.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The scam that was, and is, César Chávez, has come home to roost! Tear down those street signs that capitulating ignoramuses allowed themselves to be bullied into a few years back. The Left never cared that he was violently against both legal and illegal immigration, but now they care that he appears to have used his position of power to have sex with young girls and women. Chávez and his group were never anything other than power and money seeking thugs and that was long known to any who would look, even Leftists.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.Preposterous: Democrats and their front groups are upset that Texas is finally concurring with a Clinton-era law and refusing to issue occupational licenses to people who are not actually legal to work in the USA! They say it “punishes immigrants who try to work with the system.” That is beyond ridiculous as anyone here illegally or trying to work illegally is inherently themselves working outside of our system.School choice in Texas has proven very popular as judged by applications for the funding slots. A judge has just ordered the application window remain open through 31 March due to a lawsuit filed by Muslims. Oddly, Pre-K seems to be a big demand which I think is often just parents wanting free childcare.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Forbes says 88 of the 989 billioniares in the USA are in Texas, including the world’s richest. A run down on who are some of these people.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.Funniest story of this last week spills over into this week: Lina Hidalgo says Houston rodeo revoked her ex officio title after dispute. Now, Harris Co. Commissioner Tom Ramsey calls for Judge Lina Hidalgo to resign.Harris County Commissioners to Consider Pro-Union Policy for County Employees. Another job for legislators – stop this for all local governments.Lubbock city council races set for May 2nd election. A special election will be needed for District 4 from which Brayden Rose resigned. Our old friend Gary Boren has announced he will run for the District 4 seat.A great piece on the crown prince of Iran’s Lubbock connection. He was living in Lubbock when the Islamic revolution took place.Texas Lottery scandal followup: How Australian gamblers took down the Texas lottery for $US95 million. Gambler ‘The Joker’ confirms he bankrolled 2023 Texas Lotto operation.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Because Trump announced it, the Hearst newspapers are down playing, even belittling, the planned $300 billion, yep, with a “B”, refinery at the Port of Brownsville. Such a massive investment is transformational for the Rio Grande Valley as well as Texas and it will mainly refine West Texas Intermediate crude. It would be the first new, and modern tech, refinery in the county in almost half a century. But note how hard the Houston Chronicle goes to downplay it all: Trump’s $300B Texas refinery project draws skepticism from experts. (Note how light the story is on these supposed “experts!”)Oil and gas drilling rig count down this week in Texas.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.Local sales tax numbers are in for the March report. Look up your city here.Funniest story of the week and yet I will likely not have time to cover it on the show: Lina Hidalgo says rodeo revoked her ex officio title after dispute.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: John Cornyn has defended support from Texas pastors directly linked to a major recipient of Soros money that has lobbied massively for near complete amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S.I told you that Paxton was clever in his offer to withdraw. Cornyn and his swamp buddies just can’t bring themselves to pass something as simple as nationwide Voter ID in elections with federal offices on the ballot: Cornyn Flip-Flops Again on Filibuster After Promising ‘Whatever It Takes’.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.Tilman Fertitta’s Houston company aims to buy Caesar’s in $7B deal. “Caesars, headquartered in Reno, operates more than 50 resorts, including Harrah’s and Circus Circus, as well as properties branded as Caesars.”Lubbock County Expo Center project comes with [more] strings attached before county borrows money, as approved by oversight board. Boren changes vote to “yes.”Everything you need to know about this weekend’s IndyCar race in Arlington: When it starts, what tickets cost and free events surrounding the race.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com(he really did write the Encyclopedia of Space) joins us for a space industry (and government space program) update.Some the items we discuss are: The Senate cries “Uncle!” on SLS and big goverment with its latest NASA authorization bill. Sierra Space raises $550 million in private investment capital Vast raises $500 million in new private investment capital Medical company making artificial retinas buys payload slots on Starlab 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.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Talarico Tales are proliferating across media as I predicted. Here is one of several today: Rising Texas Dem Talarico faces backlash for ‘creepy’ remark about trans kids.Today I bring you a column from The Federalist by Chris Bray that is a Talarico Tale also involving the truly damaged, by TDS, David French: David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico.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.Oracle denies Abilene AI data center expansion reports. Watch the wording carefully because the expansion issues was not as presented. The issue was whether the expansion would be for OpenAI and its Oracle partnership. I think there are real problems. Compare the stories I covered yesterday, below, with the email from competitor AWS I received today.From yesterday’s show: “Oracle’s spending on AI data centers has the company in a pinch, layoffs expected. The giant Abilene Stargate data center proposed expansion may, or may not, happen as Oracle and its OpenAI customer are backing out. However, Meta may step in for that project.”ExxonMobile may move legal headquarters from New Jersey to Texas. Governor Abbott Statement On ExxonMobil Redomiciling In Texas.Here is the story involving our friend Cassie Daniel: Friends remember beloved Austin woman shot and killed in Houston. This is Cassie’s firsthand telling of it via facebook.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Oracle’s spending on AI data centers has the company in a pinch, layoffs expected. The giant Abilene Stargate data center proposed expansion may, or may not, happen as Oracle and its OpenAI customer are backing out. However, Meta may step in for that project.Meanwhile: Texas expected to be world’s largest data center market by 2030. Stop complaining and ride the boom!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.Steve Toth beat RINO Dan Crenshaw for Congress and now explains why he is endorsing Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP U.S. Senate runoff.RIP: The legendary Texas musician Augie Myers, last of the original Texas Tornados, had died at 85. We honor Myers and the sound with most of today’s show bumper music.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: TX23’s Rep.Tony Gonzales gives it up but he sure doesn’t sound very repentant to me in his official statement. That makes Brandon Herrera the TX23 GOP nominee. This adds to other races that move Texas’ GOP congressional delegation more conservative.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.If you missed it, go listen on this Alamo Day: Rick Range: What really happened to David Crockett at the Alamo? – Pratt on Texas 12/18/2025Paxton’s offer on national Voter I.D. hands Trump a much bigger lever over Senate leadership and he’s already using it. Could this gift to Trump play in his senate race endorsement decision?Oil and gas rig count rises in Texas but not elsewhere.Sheets is promising to do something that is as unethical as he claims Sid Miller would do: Sheets promise to fire “every one of the cancerous people that were pro-Sid” in the Texas Dept. of Agriculture. That statement goes well beyond the traditional few at the top that normally change.Trump administration signals change in course on Big Bend border wall. Appeasing the rich and influential at our expense?Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump tries to take the vote choice from Texas Republicans in the U.S. Senate race prodded mostly by the Cornyn and DC Swamp insiders. Paxton says he’ll run even if Trump backs swamp-swimming Cornyn but cleverly says he might step out, but only if the Senate passes the SAVE Act AND ends the filibuster which is something Cornyn and his buddies do not want to do at all.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.TX23’s Rep. Tony Gonzales sees his world crumbling around due to finally admitting, after vehement denials, that he did indeed have a sexual affair his staff member who later committed suicide. The top House leadership has now asked Gonzales to withdraw from the primary runoff. Rep. Luna files censure resolution against Tony Gonzales over affair allegations.Texas Bullion Depository goes for the gold, winds up in court.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Full Texas Primary Elections review. Runoffs abound, a few upsets transpired, and now President Trump thinks it is his job to pick one of the Republican U.S. Senate runoff candidates (Cornyn or Paxton) and do away with our votes in the primary runoff to select our own nominee!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.Democrats once again, like with Voter ID, essentially say a large amount of their base is too ignorant to know how and where to vote. The Texas Supreme Court put a stay on their little trick.James Talarico takes down firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett in bitter Democrat Texas Senate primary.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com