As millions of Texans were left in the darkness and cold during a massive winter storm, Texas leaders began pointing fingers and calling for investigations. The Texas Legislature will now address reform of the state’s electrical grid as an “emergency item” and seek answers as to why electric producers and distribution systems failed miserably.
Multiple people are dead in Texas as a massive winter storm continues to cut off power and heat to millions of Texans all across the state. Approximately four million Texans are without electricity as the state’s power grid continues to fail to keep up with demand.
Texas leaders are scrambling to find out why the state’s power grid was ill-prepared to deal with electrical generation during this week’s massive winter storm. The grid’s energy production failures left millions without electricity, heat, and in some cases, water.
Freezing temperatures have paralyzed power generation plants, leading to rolling blackouts across the south-central part of the country and leaving millions without power.
Over two million homes and businesses in Texas are without power Monday morning as winter storm Uri sweeps across the central United States.
A district court granted Planned Parenthood a temporary restraining order against Texas as the state was ready to end its Medicaid funding.
During his State of the State Address on Monday night, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pledged to “fortify” the state’s border security efforts. The statement follows actions by the new administration of President Joe Biden to end the construction of border wall systems and other policies leading to an unsecured border.
Planned Parenthood facilities in Texas will no longer receive taxpayer funds through the Medicaid program beginning February 3.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said this week that he is considering running for governor of Texas in 2022.
Texas continues to lead the way in vaccine distribution, administering 100,000 vaccines in a single day “for the first time,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Friday evening while emphasizing that getting vaccinated is “always voluntary” and “never forced.”
Michigan state Rep. Beau LaFave (R) urged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to call National Guardsmen home on Friday.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered the return of the Texas National Guard late Thursday evening after troops were forced to evacuate the Capitol building grounds over an alleged mask complaint from a Democrat congressman.
National Guard troops were forced to evacuate the Capitol building grounds on Thursday and hang out in parking garages, allegedly after a Democrat congressman complained about one National Guard member not wearing a mask at a cafe in the building.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ripped the decision to vet the National Guard troops heading to Washington, DC, for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, deeming it “offensive” and vowing he will never authorize more troops to head to D.C. if they are “disrespected” in such a manner again.
Texas is reportedly preparing for lawsuits against Joe Biden’s incoming administration, the San Antonio Express-News reported Friday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told Breitbart News on Saturday that his state is “leading the nation” in vaccine distribution as part of an exclusive interview that came just after Texas became the first state to vaccinate a million residents from the coronavirus.
Over one million people in Texas have received a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced on Thursday.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Texas had administered more than one million first doses of the virus vaccine before all other states.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is celebrating the end of the University of Texas’s bias response team, a university mechanism that has been used to suppress politically incorrect speech. A similar “bias response” team at the University of Michigan was shut down after a First Amendment activist group alleged that it stifled speech on campus.
Oracle, a $39 billion-a-year tech behemoth, announced it is moving its headquarters from California’s Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott (R) responded to a Democrat bill targeting castle doctrine by making clear Texas “won’t force homeowners to retreat” when attacked.
A Democrat State Representative filed a bill this week to modify the Texas Castle Doctrine law. The bill would require homeowners to be “unable to safely retreat” before using deadly force.
HOUSTON, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of Department of Public Safety troopers to help the Houston Police Department combat the surge of road-rage shootings in the city. The governor is ordering marked and unmarked DPS vehicles to patrol hot spots defined by city officials, following a 33 percent increase in road-rage related shootings.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials screened more than two million flyers Friday and Saturday following the government’s warning about Thanksgiving travel.
During Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed there will be “no more lockdowns” in his state.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is sending state police resources to the City of Dallas in response to a spike in violent crime. The governor responded to a request for assistance from the Dallas Police Department after city leaders cut the police overtime budget by $7 million.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) avoided acknowledging former Vice President Joe Biden’s projected electoral win and said that the process of recounts and vote-counting should continue.
In an effort to prevent budget cuts to police departments, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the back-the-blue pledge on Wednesday in Houston.
Reports on Monday claimed the Texas National Guard could be deployed to five cities on Election Day in preparation for possible protests and violence. On Wednesday, Governor Greg Abbott confirmed the consideration of deployment on an “as-needed basis.”
Bush criticized former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge to transition away from oil during the final presidential debate on Thursday.
A federal judge blocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order limiting mail-in ballot drop-off locations to one per county.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is charging forward with the state’s reopening process, announcing that businesses in 19 of 22 regions will be permitted to expand capacity next week.
National Weather Service officials called Hurricane Laura’s expected storm surge “unsurvivable.” The category 4 could push a storm surge as high as 15-20 feet onto the western Louisiana coast and up to 15 feet on the far eastern Texas coast. The surge could go inland as far as 40 miles in some areas, officials warned.
A Texas county called for law enforcement reinforcements from Governor Greg Abbott after the Austin City Council cut its police department budget by one-third. The county judge from Williamson County said the $150 million budget cut to the Austin Police Department by the city council places Austin officers and their families “in great peril.” Part of Austin extends into Williamson County.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott slammed the Austin City Council for its decision to strip $150 million from the capital city’s police department.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) criticized Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) for moving forward with opening schools while Texas has a coronavirus positivity rate of 17%.
Elon Musk’s Tesla will reportedly build its next U.S. factory in Austin, Texas, with construction allegedly “already underway,” according to Musk.
Tuesday on MSNBC, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) called the Texas GOP a “death cult” who wants “African-Americans” and “Latinos” to do the dying.
The U.S. Department of Defense deployed military medical teams to South Texas to help border hospitals deal with the rising number of serious cases of the novel coronavirus. Officials in Rio Grande Valley hospitals report COVID-19 patients filled up emergency rooms in the region.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) reaffirmed Thursday that he is not issuing a statewide shutdown as Chinese coronavirus cases climb.