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- Messenger story.
- This is probably interesting to those who wish to wade through it: The (former) Decatur hospital sued BlueCross and BlueShield in a sweeping lawsuit. Last Thursday, the Fort Worth Court of appeals side with BlueCross and said that the case must go to arbitration instead of to a jury like the hospital wanted. Link for opinion. (Legal nerdy folks will want to check out all the filings, including briefs, here.)
- A Jack County carjacking on Sunday morning with a brief shootout at the end of a chase. The suspect was taken by helicopter to a hospital.
- The story doesn't have much more info than the headline.
- Merry Christmas everyone! Video of gunfire being heard as band was on stage.
- Will the Texas new congressional maps withstand a court challenge? Friday evening, Justice Alito kept them in place for now. And I'm betting that they will survive in the end.
- I was slow to realize this, but the redistricting issue is big to Wise County. Under the old map, Runaway Bay, Lake Bridgeport, Chico and Bridgeport are in Ronny Jackson's district (TX-13). Under the new proposed map, they are all in Brandon Gill's district (TX-26).
- My head is still spinning about the meeting between Trump and socialist New York mayor-elect Mamdani.
- In anticipation . . .
- Immediately after . . .
- The fallout:
- Marjorie Taylor Greene shocked everyone by announcing on Friday evening that she will leave Congress after the first of the year. “I’m not going to be Trump’s battered wife,” she said.
- Trump continues to speak like an Autocrat. And why not? It's over.
- SMU Jones Film Collection released this WFAA video of an interview with tellers in a bank in Alvord after a robbery in 1961. Audio kicks in about halfway through. (YouTube)
- Dateline: JP Court in Waco.
- Dateline: Uvalde. He allegedly got mad at a UPS guy as to where he was putting his packages at the courthouse and ordered him to be arrested by a deputy.
- The weed smoking DA in far West Texas is finding out that social media is not her friend.
- I'm dissapointed in myself for missing this last week. Video of her performance.
- Art Briles is set to be the new head coach of Eastern New Mexico University.
- Trump's state media newspaper is not happy with Trump trying to give away Ukraine under the currently being negotiated "peace plan" with Russia . . .
