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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.  Garza announced the wide-ranging criminal investigation into whether any person’s or agencies�...

Editorial: Don't count on Abbott to prevent the next disaster Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail In her resignation letter DeAnn Walker, the former Public Utility Commission chairwoman, tossed around a lot of blame for the Texas grid failure. But she didn’t mention Gov. Greg Abbott. He appointed her and other PUC members.Korey Howell Photography / What hit Texas, just over two weeks ago, was a winter storm, not an earthquake, but the aftershocks will reverberate. The 4 million Texans who lost power may have their electricity back, but for those families who lost loved ones, t...

Leader of Texas Utility Regulator Resigns After Extensive Storm Outages DeAnn T. Walker, the chairwoman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, had been caught in a tide of fury that swelled after millions were left without power. DeAnn Walker, the chairwoman of Texas’ utility regulator, said the blame over the shortcomings that left the power grid vulnerable extended beyond one individual or agency.Credit...via C-SPAN March 1, 2021 HOUSTON — The chairwoman of Texas’ utility regulator resigned on Monday in response to a growing bipartisan backlash over widespread power outages during...

An electric meter in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin during the winter storm. State lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott have said making sure Texas never suffers a blackout like the one we just went through is a top priority this legislative session. What can they do to keep that promise? Hearings this week in the Texas House and Senate helped answer that question. Here are eight things that became clear during the hearings: It Goes Beyond ERCOT Texas' grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, received most of the blame in the immediate aftermath of the blackouts. The group ...

Democrats look ahead to 2022 campaign with plans to hammer Texas GOP as inept in running government ‘You can’t run a government effectively with people who don’t believe in government,’ former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro says. U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, left, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro,D-San Antonio, right, Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, bottom left, and U.S. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D-Houston, bottom right, all talk during a press conference denouncing Republicans handling of this week's power and water outages.(Irwin Thomp...