SocraticGadfly: Texas progressives talk about the start of the Lege

February 20, 2025

Texas progressives talk about the start of the Lege

Is ERCOT right to be worried about the Texas power grid? The Trib says many people claim that's overstated, in part based on new utility use accounting. OTOH, I think counting potential customers as well as actual ones, especially these data centers, is important.

The Texas vs New York reproductive service wars have heated up after a Collin County judge ordered New York doctor Margaret Carpenter to stop prescribing mifepristone etc to Texas resident patients.

Trump's tariffs will drive up beer prices if you buy it in cans not bottles. (That said, the craft breweries the author worries about most usually bottle, not can, don't they? And, she didn't mention beer kegs.)

SocraticGadfly takes a look at Russia-Ukraine issues of the last several days.

Can downtown Dallas be revived? The Monthly ponders that issue in a longform, without being as skeptical-critical of the likes of Ray Washburne as Jim Schutze was in his glory days.

Off the Kuff has the January campaign finance reports for US Senate and Congress.

Trump didn't actually let Eric Adams off the hook. Instead, the NYC mayor is dangling in a creative way.

The TikTok ban? Fueled by Israel, not China

Learn about the Office of Attending Physician, a concierge health service for Congresscritters, and maybe other gummint insiders, paid for by you and I, and right now, serving as enablers of Congressional dementia and general gerontocracy-itis.

Want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget? Here's how.

As Musk/Trump attacks FEMA and climate science, the Houston Democracy Project asked why Republican At-Large Councilmember Twila Carter who attended Mattress Mack GOTV rally last October, is Chair of Council Committee that deals with these issues.  

Space City Weather sings the praises of a fully operational and un-privatized National Weather Service.

 Deceleration criticizes how Texas universities responded to the 2023 anti-DEI law. 

The Dallas Observer has what you need to know about Dan Patrick and dick pics.  

Your Local Epidemiologist explains what "indirect costs" are in NIH grants.  

Lone Star Left reviews House committee assignments.

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