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Carmen Pena, right, waited for a ride Feb. 17 at the Rebekah Baines Johnson Center, an independent living center in Austin that lost power during the storm. Credit: Montinique Monroe for The Texas Tribune When the power went out for Marsha Hendler on Feb. 15, she rushed to her downtown San Antonio office to ride out the winter storm. Thankful to find the electricity and heat still on, she typed out an email to the elected officials who regulate her small, independent oil an...

Don’t forget the role of the Railroad Commission and natural gas producers in the power outages Railroad Commissioners should require more from the operators who supply critical natural gas to power plants. File photo shows an oil pumpjack working in the background by natural gas machinery in Webb County, Texas. (G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News)(G.J. McCarthy / Staff Photographer) By Virginia Palacios . The winter power blackouts that killed more than 100 Texans and caused millions to ...

Texas officials circulated climate skeptics talking points on power failures during storm Josh Lederman © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON — As millions of Texans went without power for days during Februarys devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted climate skeptic blaming system failures on the states embrace of wind and solar energy, emails obtained by NBC News show. The talking points from Alex Epstein, author of "The Mora...

Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning The Texas Railroad Commission’s about-face on natural gas flaring can be partially linked to pressure from European companies concerned about Texas’ dirty gas. The construction of three liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminals near Brownsville, in the Rio Grande Valley, has riled up environmentalists and community organizers for years. Texas LNG The Texas Railroad Commission’s about-face on ...

Doug Barclay remembered: ‘he loved the area’ WWNY Doug Barclay remembered: ‘he loved the area’ By Scott Atkinson | March 16, 2021 at 6:19 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 8:48 PM WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - H. Douglas Barclay, who represented northern New York in the state Senate for 20 years, was remembered Tuesday as a man who loved the north country and accomplished much for it. “He truly was a north country, Oswego County person at heart,” his son Will told 7 Ne...

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“We the people” have gotten a bad reputation in the annals of democratic theory. Thinkers from Alexander Hamilton to Alexis de Tocqueville have identified an excess of democracy as the greatest threat to U.S. democracy. As recently as 2019, the Harvard scholars Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt fretted about “an overreliance on the ‘will of the people’”—a Hamilton phrase—in their bestseller, How Democracies Die. They appealed to U.S. political elites to be the “guardrails of...

Single-Payer Reform and Rural Health in the United States: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor Abstract Single-payer health reform has secured its place in the mainstream American health policy debate, yet its implications for particular subpopulations or sectors of care remain understudied. Amidst many unanswered questions from policymakers and political pundits, rural health has emerged as one such area. This article explores rural Canada’s five-decade-long experience with a national publicl...

Its good to talk telecoms: Why the forgotten sector for equity investors is key to the digital revolution Comms giants crucial elements in economic recovery With telecoms offering investors opportunities, the sun is not setting on the sector just yet Jim Wright The telecommunications sector has been a graveyard for investors for many years now, with shareholder returns falling way short of the wider market. Over the past five years, the MSCI World Index has delivered a return of 81%. In compari...

Fowler man shot and killed following law enforcement pursuit The Hutchinson News                                                                                                                                              MINNEOLA — A Fowler man was shot and killed by law enforcement Tuesday night in Minneola following a pursuit. According to a release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the incident began about 7 p...