Episode 3630: Rep. Slawson on the House Speaker race | Tx school spending closer to $50,000 per student – Pratt on Texas 12/20/2024

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Member of Burrows’ Calendars Committee for two legislative sessions, Representative Shelby Slawson, joins us to talk about the race for House Speaker.
Also, State Rep. J. M. Lozano is alleging that the BurrowCrat Coalition had former, now disgraced, Speaker Bonnen spying for them in House Democrat caucus meetings. Lozano questions the trust and ethics of such as it pertains to Burrows. I ask: Why should he care? He breached the body’s trust before and all it did was lead to a step up the ladder for him.
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Texas unemployment rate goes up but so does the number employed in the Lone Star State – another record month.
Oil and gas rig count up.
Economist Vance Ginn, and I, explain why Texas public school spending per student is closer to $50,000 than to the $10 to $15 thousand most often cited.

Texas House committee denied its one-sided extra-judicial show trial of death row inmate Robert Roberson. More, more.
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