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Frank A. Wolak writes that federal regulation is not the answer to the disaster that smashed Texas’ deregulated energy market last month. He opines that “the [Public Utility Commission] of Texas does have a record of successfully — for the past 20 years no less — regulating wholesale and retail markets in the state.” Apparently, he missed the research done by the Wall Street Journal showing that since 2004 Texans in the unregulated markets paid $28 billion more for energy than those in regulated markets. If this is Wolak's idea of “successfully regulating,” I’d really l...

How would you like to live in a place called Nameless? Don’t mix up Dime Box with Old Dime Box. In honor of Texas Independence Day, we return to the primal subject of Texas place names. Some of you have seen the following correspondence about Texas towns and cities in the introductions of the past two Think, Texas free digital newsletters. Today, we share with a wider audience, including the print readers, responses to the Feb.1 story, inspired by “Texas Place Names” by Edward Callary with Jean K. Callary (University of Texas Press). Donna Dove: … By the way, Coble Switch was, as you ...