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.

Jay Leeson makes his final decision on the fate of Lubbock’s Auditorium-Coliseum. Brandon Darby gets varmint eradication advice from Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Aaron Sims of Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law fame, and we play the Headline Game.

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/

Leeson on raising citizens vs snowflakes and the trials of Andrew White. And the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal's Matt Dotray gives the skinny on the vote to turn the Hub City's Auditorium-Coliseum over to Texas Tech University. From the 4/25/2018 edition of OSTX.

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

Saint Arnold Brewing Company's Brock Wagner discusses adversity craft beer producers face under Texas law, and says its because of big campaign contributions from big beer. And Breitbart Texas Managing Editor and Fridays co-host Brandon Darby plays the Headline Game. 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 lacking in our current (TRP) leadership," she hammered, "I personally feel (this record)disqualifies him from representing the TRP with donors and investors. She also remarked that Dickey's appointment occurred "because we didn't vet our candidates." GOP delegates will elect the TRP Chairman this summer at the state GOP convention.

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.