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Biden Visits Storm-Battered Texas and Vows Federal Help ‘For the Long Haul’

WASHINGTON — At an emergency response center in Houston on Friday, President Biden praised officials who had slept in stairwells as they worked around the clock to help people with no power or drinkable water because of the devastating storms, low temperatures and breakdown of basic utilities that had paralyzed Texas. At a food bank, […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 7:48 pm
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in Electric Light and Power, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Politics and Government, Power Failures and Blackouts, Public Utility Commission of Texas, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, State Legislatures, Texas

Texans Demand Answers as They Grapple With Storm’s Lingering Wrath

HOUSTON — Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has called for an overhaul of the agency that oversees the flow of electricity through much of the state. Prosecutors have initiated criminal investigations into power outages that affected millions of Texans. And several lawmakers have called for the chairwoman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 7:41 pm
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Chelsea Handler Skiing Naked For Her 46th Birthday Is An Inspiration!

People celebrate their birthday in all kinds of ways, but we’ve never seen anything quite like this! Chelsea Handler is no stranger to stripping down for social media, and her birthday post is proof. But this naked shoot is particularly impressive — she’s casually skiing in her birthday suit, with American and Canadian flag pasties […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 12:36 pm
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in Air Pollution, Alternative and Renewable Energy, David, Global Warming, Leah, Power Failures and Blackouts, Stokes, Texas, United States Politics and Government, Wallace-Wells

Opinion | The Texas Crisis Could Become Everyone’s Crisis

ezra klein I’m Ezra Klein and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” So before we begin, we are still looking for an associate producer on the show. That is a job that requires two years audio experience. But if you have that, and you want to work with us, go check it out. The job […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 11:33 am
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in Abbott, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Ector County (Tex), Education (K-12), Gregory W (1957- ), Marching Bands, Odessa (Tex), Texas

Odessa – The New York Times

Odessa is a four-part audio documentary series about one West Texas high school reopening during the pandemic — and the teachers, students and nurses affected in the process. For the past six months, The New York Times has documented students’ return to class at Odessa High School from afar through Google hangouts, audio diaries, phone […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 5:50 am
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in BCFS, BCFSHealthandHumanServices, carrizosprings, Detention, HealthandHumanServices, HHS, homestead, Immigration, JoeBiden, OfficeofRefugeeResettlement, ORR, PrisonCamps, tentcities, Texas, tornillo, Unaccompaniedminors

While U.S. taking steps to speed up release of asylum-seeking kids, advocates say concerns remain

To assist with travel arrangements is a welcome policy change by the new administration. Every Last One Executive Director Dr. Amy Cohen told the AP that just this week, a client was told that in order to be able to take custody of a child who was being released from an ORR facility, she would have to bring a certified check […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 25, 2021, 9:00 pm
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Hollingsworth Hound, Deep in the Heart of Snowy Texas

YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader! Information here. “Behold the wondrous, whimsical, witty world that is Tom the Dancing Bug! If you’re someone who’s not a fan of potent political humor with an incisive absurdist twist that’s not […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 25, 2021, 8:00 am
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Judge indefinitely halts moratorium on most deportations. But Biden can still act in other ways

Campaign Action The AP reports that Tipton’s initial ruling late last month “did not require deportations to resume at their previous pace. Even without a moratorium, immigration agencies have wide latitude in enforcing removals and processing cases.” This is where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has its options to not deport individuals. It can simply decide […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 24, 2021, 9:00 pm
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Opinion | Can You Believe This Is Happening in America?

You don’t have to listen too carefully to hear it. Although it is still too early to say for sure, the Texas freeze fits a recent pattern of increasingly destructive “global weirding.” I much prefer that term over “climate change” or “global warming.” Because what happens as average global temperatures rise, ice melts, jet streams […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 23, 2021, 10:02 pm
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in Appointments and Executive Changes, Boards of Directors, Electric Light and Power, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Power Failures and Blackouts, Texas

ERCOT Managers Resign After Widespread Storm Outages

Four officials will resign from the board overseeing the Texas power grid after it was pushed to the brink of collapse by the recent winter storm, leaving millions without electricity during some of the coldest temperatures the state has experienced in a generation. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the board that governs the flow […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 23, 2021, 7:20 pm
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Fox News Accuses Democrats of “Capitalizing” on Texas Weather Disaster

Last week, the state of Texas experienced massive power outages due to a winter storm. The leaders of the state, many of them Republicans, didn’t seem to be interested in helping their constituents. Ted Cruz famously took off for Cancun. Little was heard from Senator John Cornyn and Governor Greg Abbott mostly seemed interested in […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 23, 2021, 6:36 pm
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Here’s Sen. Ted Cruz texting during congressional hearing on Jan. 6 security failures

He’s like an evil Alfred E. Neuman The reason that Heidi Cruz’s texts became news was not because Heidi Cruz did something wrong. The reason that Heidi Cruz’s texts became news was because her husband, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, attempted to blame his kids for his bad decision-making. Cruz’s very elitist and irresponsible decision to take a vacation […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 23, 2021, 6:30 pm