Month: February 2021

Texas lawmakers investigating this month’s devastating power outages during a massive winter storm grilled power-grid officials Thursday and questioned whether state regulators did enough. Most of what they got during … Read More

The deregulated power grid in Texas means no one company owns all the power plants, transmission lines and distribution networks, and about 60% of Texas customers choose between dozens of … Read More

The federal moratorium on evictions is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Texas ruled Thursday, siding with property owners in the state who have argued that the U.S. government does not … Read More

Plenty of Texans want to hire plumbers in the wake of February’s crippling winter storm. But part of the problem is that too few Texans want to be plumbers. A … Read More

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, in a speech Friday at a major national conservative gathering, joked about his recent trip to Cancún during the Texas winter weather crisis and promised that … Read More

President Joe Biden, who today is making his first visit to Texas since his January inauguration, starts his term with about the same numbers of voters giving him good and … Read More

A large majority of Texas voters think the state’s official election results are just fine, but 30% think national election results are “very inaccurate,” according to the latest University of … Read More

New York Health Commissioner Defends Use of COVID-19 Drug Cocktail at State-Run Veterans Nursing Home New York’s chief physician deflected blame and side-stepped questions Thursday about the state’s handling of … Read More

Over the past month, the COVID-19 vaccine has become much more than just a new medical intervention. Photos of freshly vaccinated acquaintances pop up routinely on social media feeds. Health … Read More