A slow week with Thanksgiving, but not totally slow, so let's dive in.
The race to succeed Eddie Bernice Johnson is heating up. (The person I put money on, Carl Sherman, hasn't yet filed, but, there's time.)
ERCOT can't guarantee we won't have another winter power outage.
Jonathan Tilove talks to Julian Castro about his post-2022 plans, his thoughts on Dems in South Texas, and more.
Speaking of South Texas, at the Observer, Gus Bova looks at Jessica Cisneros' second run at CD 28.
Comptroller Glenn Hegar, the one halfway sane Republican holding statewide office, is proposing new rules for Chapter 313 projects, even as Chapter 313 itself ends, that critics say will lessen transparency and accountability. (For the unfamiliar, Chapter 313 allowed taxing entities like school districts and hospital districts to grant the functional equivalent of abatements to folks like wind farms.) Basically, what Hegar wants to 86 is data on things like job production agreements that were part of many Chapter 313 projects.
Off the Kuff dives into the new Congressional map to see what opportunities may await.
SocraticGadfly talked about Gohmert Pyle's announcement and ramifications, both for AG and for CD1.
Emily Eby says a fond goodbye to the Texas Civil Rights Project.
Mean Green Cougar Red looks forward to USFL 2.0.
Andrea Grimes understands what the "University of Austin" is all about.
National and global
Meet Fulton County, Georgia's first Black woman DA, Fani Willis. Willis, like other DAs Black, White or other ethnicity, male or female, who were elected on "progressive DA" campaigns, is facing scrutiny and backlash. With her, unlike a Chesea Boudin, as with some others, it's that she's still too tough on crime, too friendly to cops. She says she's cleared out a bunch of old prosecutors from her office, but the critics aren't satisfied. Beyond Black vs White and other issues, her seeking the death penalty in the Asian spa shootings case is also a flash point.
Ray Billingsley, creator of "Curtis," is the first Black cartoonist to win that profession's top honor, the Reuben Award.
Il Papa, the Pope, Francis the Talking Pope, offers his definition of journalism while making an award.
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