Big chunks of Texas are without power in the wake of an epic snow and ice storm gripping much of the United States. The immediate cause for the grid’s failure is freezing temperatures, but this happens every winter in northern states (and Scandanavia), and they don’t lose power to the en[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
February 16th, 2021 - 6:34 pm § in Environment
What makes the Texas power blackout unique, and why it won’t happen elsewhere
October 6th, 2020 - 11:42 am § in Racism
Murder charges in Texas white cop’s killing of black man
Johnathan Price, 31, a popular former college football player and a city employee in Wolfe City, Texas, was killed by Shaun Lucas, 22, on Saturday, October 3, 2020. Price was at a gas station when he saw a man assaulting a woman and intervened; the man then assaulted Price. A friend of his later sai[...]
October 3rd, 2020 - 8:28 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Texas AG’s staff: “Our boss is a crook”
This article contains news with a dollop of liberal sarcasm. “A group of top aides for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking federal law enforcement to investigate their boss,” KHOU- 11 TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, reported on Saturday, October 3, 2020. A letter to federal law[...]
October 1st, 2020 - 3:31 pm § in Politics
Texas GOP governor interferes with ballot drop boxes
This article is news with liberal commentary. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has ordered limiting drop boxes for mail-in ballots to one site per county, CNN reported on Thursday, October 1, 2020. Read story here. Abbott’s maneuver appears to be specifically targeting the[...]
September 29th, 2020 - 9:00 pm § in Racism, Schools & Colleges
Black college freshwoman “swatted” by classmates
This article contains news and liberal commentary. A black female college student’s dorm door exploded open at 3 a.m. and cops poured into her room with drawn guns because 10 of her fellow students, described as racially diverse but mostly white, called campus police and falsely accused her &#[...]
September 22nd, 2020 - 10:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is Texas in play?
The last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Texas was Jimmy Carter in 1976. But political analysts now say “it’s only a matter of time before Texas becomes a battleground state.” That’s primarily for two reasons. One, the state is urbanizing; and two, Hispanics soon will [...]
April 10th, 2019 - 3:43 pm § in Politics
This GOP legislator wants to execute women who have abortions
His name is Tony Tinderholt, and he represents a suburban district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the Texas House of Representatives. In 2017 and 2019, he sponsored legislation that would impose the death penalty for having an abortion. Because Tinderholt is trying to kill people for engaging in l[...]
April 18th, 2018 - 5:03 pm § in Donald Trump
New poll finds race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke “too close to call”
Texas Tribune— A new poll released Wednesday suggests the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is far more competitive than many political observers have initially thought. The poll from Quinnipiac University shows the two men in a dead heat: 47 perce[...]
March 26th, 2018 - 12:26 pm § in Misc.
Texas style deposition
(This case apparently involves the Texas City fertilizer plant explosion.)[...]
Trump has selected Rick Perry to be Donald’s energy secretary,
(CBS) The former Texas governor sits on two corporate boards – one of them is Energy Transfer Partners – and that may present a confirmation issue. Energy Transfer Partners has a subsidiary known as Dakota Access LLC, which is attempting to build the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Dakota A[...]