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Commentary: Modernize the infrastructure, or face future of more failures Henry Cisneros and William Fulton, For the Express-News Feb. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A worker in Dallas seeks to restore power during the arctic blast. A failure to invest in infrastructure is a failure to invest in our present and future.Smiley N. Pool /Associated Press The loss of electrical power in neighborhoods across Texas last week has been attributed to breakdowns in the ERCOT system. ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, was set up to share and distribute power across the interconnected util...

What to know: Stores open in San Antonio today FacebookTwitterEmail A handful of H-E-B stores have had to close Thursday. Officials are pleading with the community to stay home and off the roads. The return of winter precipitation Thursday morning made roadways "dangerous and unpredictable," according to the Texas Department of Transportation. Some stores, like hundreds of thousands of San Antonio residents, were without power this week. The Central Market on Broadway was closed Tuesday due to a lack of power, according to a H-E-B spokesperson. The Central Market was back open Thursday from 1...

The city of Clear Lake is considering an amendment to its consolidated urban renewal plan that would allow it to provide up to nearly $1.5 million in financial incentives to two new commercial developments. City Administrator Scott Flory briefly reviewed the unnamed developments, including a 47,000-square-foot commercial and retail space with related surface parking and a 6,000-square-foot commercial space, and incentives with the Clear Lake City Council Monday evening during its meeting. City Administrator Scott Flory outlines two new commercial projects proposed in the city during the Clear...

Stock up and stay home, Houston.

Big snow, record low temperatures set stage for icy week FacebookTwitterEmail The Alamo is seen early Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, after 3 to 5 inches of snow fell overnight. The Alamo was closed because of the bitter cold and snow.William Luther /Staff photographer A powerful winter storm unlike anything seen in 31 years, when temperatures fell to 6 degrees in San Antonio, left a thick carpet of snow on top of a layer of ice across San Antonio and the Hill Country on Monday. As bad as the storm was, even greater dangers loomed after dusk and into today, when the radiant heat of the sun no longer m...