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After stalling for years, effort to allow permitless carrying of handguns sees major breakthrough in Texas House Texas Tribune Published:  Tags:  Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In legislative session after legislative session late last decade, gun rights supporters pushed for a new law that would allow Texans to carry handguns without a license. Their cause did not go far in 2015 — and neither did it in 2017. In 2019, a Democratic lawmaker recalled Thursday evening,...

April 4, 2021 In which @SenJohnKennedy says the Texas power grid failures that left millions without power or clean water were basically the cost of doing business, which means @DanaPerino has to save him by pivoting to an immigration question. pic.twitter.com/a37RZILZ1x— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) April 1, 2021 How about a grid that doesn’t treat living beings as collateral damage? WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan could help rebuild Texas highways and ports and push broadband into rural parts of the state, where up to 31 percent of residents d...

Senate passes bill to force regulators to reprice energy sold during Texas freeze FacebookTwitterEmail Overcharges for wholesale electricity during the recent calamity on the state's power grid are becoming a top issue in the Texas Senate today. (File photo/Austin American-Statesman/TNS)AMERICAN-STATESMAN FILE, MBR / TNS In the intensifying clash between Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick over whether to reverse billions of dollars in power overcharges racked up by Texas utilities during last month’s freeze, Patrick — the leader of the Senate — on Monday pushed through a bill th...

Josh Olszewski cooks eggs over a grill on Feb. 18 after his Austin apartment lost power during a severe winter storm that hit the state. How those politicians handle the fallout from the winter storm could figure into the 2022 elections, which are, for them, not far away. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, just click on the play button below. Are we going to pay for last month’s blackouts as ratepayers or as taxpayers?

<figcaption> Josh Olszewski cooks eggs over a grill on Feb. 18 after his Austin apartment lost power during a severe winter storm that hit the state. How those politicians handle the fallout from the winter storm could figure into the 2022 elections, which are, for them, not far away. <cite>Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune</cite> </figcaption>