Mary Nan Huffman wins District G special election https://t.co/fyOYFD7fMU via @houstonchron #HouNews #HouCouncil
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) January 26, 2022
JosΓ© “Chito” Vela beat out six competitors Tuesday in the special election to replace Greg Casar on the Austin City Council. | @AKMcGlinchy https://t.co/lzgnnQqI7w
— KUT Austin (@KUT) January 26, 2022
In other politics news ...
A dark-money group formed by twice-failed San Antonio mayoral candidate Greg Brockhouse spent money in support of Congressman Henry Cuellar, whose Laredo home & office were raided by the FBI this week
— Joshua Fechter π (@JoshuaFechter) January 22, 2022
Via @ExpressNews/@bchasnoff
https://t.co/RCwN5BlpI0
Cuellar also defiantly stated he would continue his re-election bid and said he expected to win the primary. If he defeats his two progressive challengers, Jessica Cisneros and Tannya Benavides, he will face Ted Cruz acolyte Casandra Garcia in the fall.
.@KenPaxtonTX raised a hefty $2.8 million since July. But where most of the $ came from is a mystery.
— Allie Morris π (@MorrisReports) January 26, 2022
Paxton has only named who gave his campaign about $650k of the total, despite a deadline last week that required full disclosure. #txlege https://t.co/EnM4euwvoX
"So much to talk about!" Trump says of his Saturday rally in Texas, a cause for both optimism and anxiety for GOP consultants across the state, w/ just over a month until the primary
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) January 24, 2022
If your weekend plans include Conroe, better rethink that. Unless you're the FBI and plan on arresting some scofflaws.
The latest in Texas politics from cartoonist Ben Sargent. https://t.co/3jzW4kB23N
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) January 24, 2022
These two images highlight perfectly how the opposition to mail balloting is really just opposition to certain people voting. pic.twitter.com/Xg0VypEjmY
— Michael Li ζδΉζ¨Έ (@mcpli) January 25, 2022
On more positive notes:
Looks like my candidacy for Texas Railroad Commissioner has just made the headlineshttps://t.co/42L7jpMsO6
— Hunter wayne crow (@timelordcrow) January 25, 2022
So proud of my Dad! #hounews #evictioncrisis #harriscounty https://t.co/j4x8xq3awu
— www.needabortion.org (@CarolineDuble) January 25, 2022
These are all incredibly good questions to ask John Whitmire at upcoming fora and debates. He never shows up in the most pivotal fights then says things like the stuff quoted here.#TXLege https://t.co/1p0VLrgcPl
— ((( Daniel J Cohen ))) (@mrdancohen) January 25, 2022
File this under "Things we already knew." π#txlege https://t.co/hJ97QAdiZj
— Texas Organizing Project (@OrganizeTexas) January 24, 2022
"Expansion plan to take world's biggest #BatteryStorage project to 3GWh capacity"
— @CCLHouston (@CCLHouston) January 26, 2022
✔️For use as a substitute for #PeakerPlants
✔️To help create and maintain stable #ElectricGrid #TXLege
https://t.co/5aQnyhoMoR
Vistra Energy, a Texas-headquartered integrated utility and power generation company, said it wants to add another 350MW/1,400MWh BESS to the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California’s Monterey Bay.
Vistra said that as Moss Landing -- itself built on the site of an existing gas power plant owned by Vistra subsidiary Dynegy -- already has development permitting in place, and has existing grid interconnection and infrastructure, it can move quickly on the proposed Phase III.
Vistra CEO Curt Morgan described Moss Landing yesterday as “a shining example of the pivot of our generation fleet toward carbon-free technologies”.
Segue-ing to the environmental takes.
Last February, the city of Dallas finally hauled away the six-story Shingle Mountain. Almost exactly a year later, industry is returning to one of the lots where it lived— next door to the homeowner who spent years fighting to get the city's attention. https://t.co/ooabcRCFYA
— D Magazine (@DMagazine) January 25, 2022
#BREAKING: A new report by @CommissionShift, 45% of @txrrc's budget is spent on plugging #TXOrphanWells. With the #oilandgas industry in decline, the #TXRRC has a never-ending cycle of bailouts for the #oilandgas industry. #txlege
— Oliver Bernstein (@oliveroliver) January 25, 2022
Read more ππhttps://t.co/Yjm3JYpnuF pic.twitter.com/zOP30O77aZ
A couple of labor notes:
ExxonMobil has locked out @steelworkers from Local 13-243 in Beaumont for more than 8 months! Help @HoustonDSA support these workers and stop Exxon’s #UnionBusting.
— RoB (@xroblockx) January 25, 2022
Meeting tomorrow, Wed 1/26 @ 6pm #1u https://t.co/3cl2PfTCpy
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Fort Worth granted BNSF -- one of the nation's largest freight companies -- a temporary restraining order blocking nearly 17,000 employees from striking over the company's new attendance policy. https://t.co/Xk0pKEaaFM
— WFAA (@wfaa) January 26, 2022
The Gulf Coast AFL-CIO mourns the passing of Ceole Speight. She will be missed but not forgotten. pic.twitter.com/jlDVSFNKNr
— Gulf Coast AFL-CIO | Pass the PRO Act! (@gcaflcio) January 25, 2022
And the criminal and social justice updates.
Houston cop Christopher Cabrera wasn't rushing to a call or involved in a pursuit when he crashed and killed 75-year-old Charles Payne. New video released by HPD shows just how fast Cabrera was driving when he hit Payne and the aftermath that followed https://t.co/zTARDRig5l
— Jay R. Jordan (@jayrjordan) January 25, 2022
NEW: Austin officials have released a consultant's 179-page report about policing with striking assessments about APD, including that "'stop and frisk' is employed aggressively in Austin" and that officers "frequently escalated citizen encounters." More to come as we unpack this.
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) January 25, 2022
Texas Medicaid rolls grew by more than 1 million people during the pandemic https://t.co/vH8wlqcCQJ #txlege
— James Michael Russell (@jamesfortexas) January 25, 2022
Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 from Harlingen, is one of five women and the only Latina on Texas death row. If her execution is allowed to proceed, it will be the first time since 2014 that any woman has been put to death in Texas. https://t.co/Xb4NQIsfv5
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) January 26, 2022
Texas
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) January 26, 2022
Top 1% income threshold: $594,313
Top 5% income threshold: $237,383 https://t.co/x4EVQD0NZx
Want #MedicareForAll but not sure where to start? There's movement in Harris County to build pressure on elected officials. The local @dsam4a coalition's first meeting is coming up on January 26. Read more to learn how to get involved. #hounews https://t.co/gm7AMqavWn
— Unconventional Journalist π (@samthemullet) January 23, 2022
And the news from the lighter side, not all of it good.
Sad news out of Austin this morning. Longtime bakery Texas French Bread appears to have burned down. This building once held the long-lamented Rome Inn, a spot at which icons like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rusty Weir, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and many other icons played. https://t.co/MU161385kI
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) January 25, 2022
Elton John has contracted COVID-19 and is postponing two farewell concert dates in Dallas. John, who is vaccinated and boosted, “is experiencing only mild symptoms” and is looking forward to returning to the stage “shortly," according to a statement. https://t.co/M7JJ9NApJN
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 25, 2022
Houstonians are invited to a free event celebrating Memorial Park’s Land Bridge and Prairie project on Saturday, Feb. 5 from 10 AM-3PM. Attendees will get to walk through and explore one of the four tunnels before they open to vehicular traffic. #khou11 pic.twitter.com/NNY3E3TrFh
— The Bishop (@BillBishopKHOU) January 24, 2022
Austin DSA member Alice Embree's new memoir "Voice Lessons" reflects on decades of involvement in the activist left and offers lessons for a new generation of radicals.
— Austin DSA (@austin_DSA) January 24, 2022
Read our review of "Voice Lessons" here:https://t.co/OADBAasydX pic.twitter.com/5Hu7mjxWHN
Embree still writes for the Rag Blog.
