Category: Texas

Texas Grid Avoids Summer Blackouts With $1 Billion in Extra Spending

August 25, 2022
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Texas’s electric grid operator has powered through record demand this summer by paying more to keep higher reserves and rewarding industrial consumers to cut usage, a combination that has added more than $1 billion to power fees. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has set new demand records 11 times this summer and twice…

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Uvalde School Board Votes Unanimously to Fire School Police Chief Pete Arredondo

August 25, 2022
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The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District school board voted unanimously on Wednesday to terminate the employment of the district’s Police Chief Pete Arredondo, three months after the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary school in Texas. The vote came as Arredondo, who was one of the first responders on the scene, faced mounting criticism over his response to the mass shooting…

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Texas Targets 10 Financial Companies, 340+ Funds Over ESG-Driven Fossil Fuel Divestment

August 25, 2022
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Texas State Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Aug. 24 released a list of ten financial companies and almost 350 funds said to be boycotting energy firms involved in fossil fuels, marking another advance in the war between individual U.S. states and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement. The state comptroller must publish such a list…

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Texas Board of Education Considers Controversial Teaching Standards

August 24, 2022
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Parental rights groups and politicians are perturbed about proposed Texas teaching standards that would widen the discussion of sexual orientation and gender in high school classes and replace the influence of the Bible on the U.S. Constitution with that of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) called an emergency hearing on…

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Federal Court Blocks Biden Rule Forcing ER Docs to Perform Abortions Against Their Faith

August 24, 2022
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A federal judge blocked, for the time being, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulatory guidance that sought to compel emergency room doctors to perform abortions even if doing so violates their conscience or religious faith. In a 67-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lubbock Division, enjoined…

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Federal Court Blocks Biden Rule Forcing ER Doctors to Perform Abortions Against Their Faith

August 24, 2022
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A federal judge in Texas blocked, for the time being, regulatory guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that sought to compel emergency room doctors to perform abortions even if doing so violates their conscience or religious faith. In a 67-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas,…

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Judge Blocks Biden Admin’s Emergency Abortion Rule in Texas

August 24, 2022
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A federal judge blocked the White House late Tuesday from enforcing guidance in Texas to require hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of state laws. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock agreed with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) guidance was unauthorized and went…

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Capitol Report (Aug. 23): Trump Seeks Special Review; Pelosi’s Husband Pleads Guilty

August 23, 2022
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The Pentagon has denied D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s second request for National Guard troops to handle the estimated 8,500 illegal immigrants sent from Arizona and Texas. The mayor this week is calling it a crisis in the city. A newly disclosed letter unveils what was taken from Mar-a-Lago months before the raid and what the…

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Texas Governor Declares Disaster for 23 Counties

August 23, 2022
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday declared a disaster for 23 Texas counties after storms and rainfall triggered flash flooding. Abbott signed the declaration in Dallas, one of the most impacted areas during the recent storms and flooding. As of Monday afternoon, the National Weather Service reported that more than 10 inches of rain fell in…

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Texas Magistrate Accused of Smuggling Illegal Aliens Across US-Mexico Border

August 23, 2022
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An attorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, who was federally appointed and licensed as a magistrate in 2003 was arrested on Aug. 13 on accusations of smuggling illegal aliens and resisting arrest, according to police. Jimmy Fullen, a deputy constable of Galveston County, announced the arrest of Timothy Daniel Japhet in an Aug. 20 press statement on…

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