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Soon after taking office, Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza repeated a campaign promise to investigate and prosecute those he deemed “powerful actors” who had too long eluded the criminal justice system. Two months into his administration, Garza has turned his attention to last month’s power outages and an investigation that could possibly involve — as witnesses or defendants — Republican appointees of Gov. Greg Abbott, high-salaried government officials or energy executives....

At a meeting days before this weeks winter storm, Texas grid officials spent scant little time on the impending winter weather.