by Robert Montoya | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
As a statewide mask mandate is still in effect and a possible second shutdown looms, data from Texas’ urban counties show that recoveries far outweigh deaths from the Chinese coronavirus. Two weeks ago, North Texas’ Tarrant County public health director, Dr. Vinny...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
Another North Texas city is considering using the Chinese coronavirus disaster as an excuse to bypass property tax reform and hit local taxpayers extra-hard while they’re down. Waxahachie City Councilmember Melissa Olson warned constituents this weekend that a...
by Thomas Warren | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
Former Physician to the President Ronny Jackson has secured a major fundraising lead over his opponent, former lobbyist Josh Winegarner, in the Republican primary runoff to replace U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry (R–Clarendon). According to new finance reports filed last...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
Republican runoff voters are in the process of deciding who will be Ellis County’s next sheriff: challenger Brad Norman or incumbent Charles “Chuck” Edge. Edge and Norman are competing in the July 14 GOP primary runoff because no candidate won a majority of votes in...
by Chris Fails | Jul. 6, 2020 | Commentary
The board of the Associated Republicans of Texas—or “ART,” as it’s referred to in political circles—doesn’t quite live up to the Republican part of its name. Since 2015, ART’s board has donated almost half a million dollars to Democrats up and down the ballot in...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
As she campaigns for the Republican nomination for district judge in Collin County, a candidate already under fire for some of her liberal views is now having to answer questions about a donation she made to a Democrat. In the race for the nomination to the 401st...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 6, 2020 | State
After Gov. Greg Abbott announced a statewide mask mandate ahead of Independence Day weekend, calls from Texas lawmakers for a special session are growing in response to the string of unilateral executive orders coming from the governor’s office over the past several...
by Robert Montoya | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
Republican voters in Wood County are now deciding between keeping their current sheriff—under whom crime rankings have gone down—or replacing him with a chief of police whose city has more crime than most cities in America. The winner of the GOP primary runoff will be...
by Jacob Asmussen | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
AUSTIN—According to Mayor Steve Adler, if you disobey his shutdown orders, you’re “selfish.” Unless he agrees with your cause—in which case, he’ll praise you and even join you. Over the past several months, Adler has enacted various shutdown decrees on Austinites,...
by Matt Stringer | Jul. 6, 2020 | Local
Republican grassroots leaders in Ector County met in Odessa on Saturday, the Fourth of July, and passed a resolution calling for Gov. Greg Abbott to be censured under Texas GOP’s Rule 44. The censure resolution passed by the party’s elected executive committee cites...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 3, 2020 | State, Uncategorized
In the wake of Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide mandate that Texans wear masks, citizens across the state are decrying the order as tyrannical government overreach. But so far, many of the state’s elected officials have been silent, including one of the state’s most...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 3, 2020 | State
On the day Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order requiring masks statewide, the Texas GOP voted to go ahead with its plans for an in-person convention in two weeks. After a three-hour meeting via videoconference and ample debate on whether to proceed with the...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Jul. 3, 2020 | Commentary, Life
There was no difference between July 3, 1776, and July 5. By all appearances, the American colonies were no more free, no more independent. The governing structures were not different. So what makes the Fourth of July so special? Consider this. We do not celebrate...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 2, 2020 | State
In a reversal from statements made just a couple of weeks ago calling mask mandates an “infringement of individual liberty,” Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order on Thursday, putting in place a statewide face mask mandate. “Wearing a face covering in...
by Jacob Asmussen | Jul. 2, 2020 | Local
Local officials could soon force working Austinites into another crisis. Austin Mayor Steve Adler is considering decreeing another citywide shutdown similar to the ones in March and April, when “nonessential” businesses were forced to close and citizens were ordered...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 2, 2020 | Local
As some Texas cities and counties are imposing new burdens and fines on businesses already hurting from months of government-mandated coronavirus closures, officials in “The City of Excellence” chose a voluntary approach to slowing the spread of the virus. In an...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 2, 2020 | State, Uncategorized
In a new television ad this week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz compares the Texas Legislature to a swamp and urges voters to support Jon Francis in the runoff primary election in House District 60. “Washington D.C. is a swamp, and I’m fighting alongside President Trump to drain...
by Robert Montoya | Jul. 2, 2020 | Local
A North Texas county has appealed to the state attorney general to hide elected Democrats’ communications sought by an open records request. This request was sent after it was revealed that the county’s two Democrat commissioners helped organize radical left-wing...
by Robert Montoya | Jul. 1, 2020 | Local
A North Texas Democrat—citing incomplete data that doesn’t report recoveries from the Chinese coronavirus—wants all Americans forced to wear a mask, pitting himself directly against President Donald Trump. On June 19, Dallas’ Democrat County Judge Clay Jenkins passed...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 1, 2020 | Local
Another North Texas city is imposing new burdens on local businesses already hurting from months of government-mandated coronavirus closures. On Monday, McKinney Mayor George Fuller issued a declaration forcing the city’s business owners to require face masks for all...
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