Other Side Of Texas

What do Allsup's, Caprock Canyon, some bikes a hike, and Dairy Queen have in common with how Leeson serves the public well? Scott Braddock shares his take on 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner and what modern day journalists should be considering. As well as, his thoughts on last week's show with Four Price discussing the Texas opioid epidemic. Lesson asks is, Beto O'rourke changing his messaging? Blue Collar Bill shares with us who his favorite politician is, his thoughts on dirty laundry, and protection of the sacred Man Card.

We go in-depth on the controversy surrounding a municipal voting proposition to give the Lubbock Auditorium-Coliseum, which is in some $25 million of disrepair, over to Texas Tech. Craig Hlavaty helps explain why Astrodome/Auditorium-Coliseum comparisons are somewhat true and somewhat false. Plus, Lubbock's barber Maurice Stanley sounds off on the subject.

Matt Dotray joins Jay Leeson on OSTX to give facts and analysis about the voting proposition for the City of Lubbock to give the Auditorium-Coliseum over to Texas Tech University. Nothing but the facts! Follow Dotray on Twitter at @mdotrayAJ

Four Price, the four-term state representative from Amarillo. Chairman Price leads the house committee on public health. Price joined OSTX to discuss the findings of his House Select Committee on Opioids and Substance Abuse. He says, "what we're learning is statistically we're hearing a lot of information right now about how broad the crisis is in Texas. Nearly eight of every 100 Texans have a substance use disorder and what we know is that those substance use disorders are the leading contributor to children entering Child Protective Services. Almost two-thirds of all cases in 2016. We know that drug overdoses are the leading cause of maternal deaths in Texas. Most of which are due to illicit drugs including illicit use of opioids. Then we have unmet costs like substance use disorders in our ERs that extend about $350 million per year."

In a recent OSTX interview, Brock Wagner, founder of Texas' largest craft brewer, Saint Arnold Brewing Company candidly discusses how the state's three-tier beer system, a Prohibition-era policy, enables today what it was meant to prevent in the 1930s: big brewers monopolizing brewing, distribution and retail Read our blog about the interview here: http://othersideoftexas.com/2018/04/26/texas-craft-brewers-take-on-the-big-beer-industrial-complex/

State Reps Four Price (R) and Garnet Coleman (D) candidly discuss the state’s opioid epidemic, which has emerged out of rural Texas. Plus, Jay Leeson monologues on suburban Republicans seeking to balance transportation needs on the backs of rural Texans.

Quorum Report’s Scott Braddock on Texas politics. Leeson compares taking care of four kids alone over the weekend to final scene in Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. And why print media is going down in a blaze of glory.

Brandon Darby's headline for a Trump tweet that included, "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job (by Stormy Daniels)..." Entire clip can be heard here: http://othersideoftexas.com/2018/04/21/ostx-brock-wagner-brandon-darby-headline-game/ OSTX 4/20/2018

Former Speaker of the Texas House – Pete Laney on then and now, voting your district and how he’d handle Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Givin’ two snikelfritzes. And Republican Party of Texas Chairman candidate Cindy Asche brings the lumber to current chairman James Dickey.

In a speech to Lubbock Republicans this morning, Asche read a statement and provided documentation showing that Dickey, who was appointed by the State Republican Executive Committee in June 2017, "was charged by the federal Securities Exchange Commission with classic hedge fund fraud in violation of multiple federal statutes" in 2004. Asche estimates investor losses to be in excess of $63 million. She continued, "Dickey refused to admit even undisputed facts. Instead, he invoked the 5th Amendment so many times the SEC requested the court grant an inference of guilt." She also said that in his January 2006 trial, Dickey agreed to never dispute the allegations in the original complaint and "consented to the final judgment, and a pay a penalty of $35,000." Prior to the statement, Asche spent several minutes discussing the financial adversity facing the Texas Republican Party organization. After the statement (which is included in audio clip), in which Asche continuously struck a theme of "integrity is sadly lack

Leeson discusses how OSTX is a media version of a membrane bioreactor, a Quinnipiac Poll backs what we've already told you: Beto O'Rourke is within 5 points of Ted Cruz. And Cousin Tennessee Trey helps break down how Al Gore, Sr. robbed America by having Trey and Leeson's grandfather fired from Nashville talk radio. From OSTX broadcast on 4/18/2018

Leeson tees off on the upside-down day in America and interviews U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, on his run for U.S. Senate against Ted Cruz. From the OtherSideofTexas.com broadcast on 4/17/2018.

Quorum Report’s Scott Braddock calls in about Texas politics and Beto O’Rourke vs Ted Cruz. Plus, Blue Collar Bill on the demise of trade skills and America. And Leeson on the cultural hypocrisy of saying ethnic names in a particular way, but no one says his name in a West Texas drawl.

U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke discusses Republican claims of border insecurity, Democratic claims of border security and agriculture as a national defense. As well as the need for his a base to be much broader than white liberals despise Trump if O'Rourke is to be the Texas Democratic version of John Tower in 2018. From the OSTX on 4/9/2018. Full transcript at OtherSideofTexas.com.

From the OSTX 04/02/2018: Jay Leeson discusses how a 2014 opinion by then-Attorney General Greg Abbott likely enabled chemical storage at a residence two streets away from Texas Tech University. The explosion rocked a six-block radius, killing an occupant of the home and a next-door neighbor, as well as injured others.

Jay Leeson discusses 'Empire of the Summer Moon' and fabled Llano Estacado with author S.C. Gwynne, as well as the latest in Lone Star politics with Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey. Plus Blue Collar Bill chimes in on Respect Crimes.

From the 03/26/2018 episode of OSTX: Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey guides through the politics of redistricting, potential lost bond ratings and electioneering concerns.

From the 03/26/2018 episode of OSTX: Sam Gwynne, author of 'Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History', discusses his book, as well as how the experiences of West Texans facing Santa Anna, the Comanche Indians and the Dust Bowl formed an enduring Texas frontier mentality.

Leeson on Russians undermining American Democracy | Breitbart Texas' Brandon Darby on the conservative argument for regulating Facebook and Twitter as a public utility | Quorum Report's Scott Braddock on Austin Bombings and #txlege | Leonard T. Jenkins, Designated (Cotton) Stripper on smarter ways to ruin America

Leonard T Jenkins on being designator stripper and boiled peanuts merchant, Scott Braddock on the 2018 Texas Primary elections, Blue Collar Bill on voting your place and Leeson on a Politics of Place.