Texas Progressives talk shop

The Lege's Sunset Commission said TCEQ needs to get tougher on big and repeat offenders. It also needs to be pushed to follow through on the possibility of getting tougher on concrete batch plants.

The PUC claims to have a solution to prevent future Uri situations. In reality, it's neoliberal bullshit.

The Texas Butterfly Center is alive and semi-well.

The Rio Grande, like the Colorado, is overused and overappropriated, though it gets less attention. Texas, largely hypocritically, sued New Mexico over water issues a decade ago. That's been settled, High Country News reports, though details are sealed. Let's hope the piece is right about the Supreme Court looking seriously at water rights issues. There's the added issue that this isn't a complete settlement, but only between Texas and New Mexico. BuRec hasn't signed off, and its joining the Texas suit is itself arguably hypocritical.

Off the Kuff gives his opening thoughts about the 2022 election. 

SocraticGadfly takes an in-depth look at the latest story on COVID possibly being a lab leak, per reporting by Pro Publica about a Senate minority report.

CultureMap Houston discusses the greatest Texan musician you've probably never heard of.

Texas 2036 proposes its 2023 legislative agenda.

G. Elliott Morris examines how and why the better pollsters and poll aggregators got the 2022 midterms right.