Episode 3648: Historic week for private space | Dem praises Burrows for working to weaken election integrity law – Pratt on Texas 1/17/2025

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: This week was quite historic for private sector space flight, or “capitalism in space,” and space writer and historian Bob Zimmerman joins us to touch on the highlights. Texas is playing a huge role in this new industry.
Zimmerman’s website is https://behindtheblack.com/

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Lieutenant Governor Patrick releases Senate committee assignments for the 89th session.
West Texas and state media praises Dustin Burrows for “bipartisanship. He won the Speaker chair with many more Democrat votes than Republican, showing that, as always, things that lean Democrat are praised because the media are liberal. Take this big Texas Tribune story: House Democrats hope to benefit after supporting speaker. Note Leftwinger John Bucy praised Burrows for working to weaken election integrity legislation last session!

More public school failure: Richardson ISD has a DEI chief who admits that boys may room with girls on school trips!

Trump is considering Texas’ “border czar” Mike Banks to be head of the Border Patrol.
Oil and gas rig count falls again.
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