Opinion
Texas leaders, don’t let the snowstorms be your excuse to give us a snow job on electricity reform
Focus on the grid but also on protecting consumers.
Take advantage of the current interest in the Texas electricity system to enact stronger consumer controls, Watchdog Dave Lieber suggests.(Dave Lieber)
From: The Watchdog
I’m thrilled that you’ve turned your attention to our broken, embarrassing, deceptive, failing electricity system. I wish it had happened a decade ago, but now is better than never. Too bad it took death and devastation to make it happen.
You owe us, and The Watchdog is here to collect. The time is now for you to take charge and end the silly game you’ve played for the past decade. You bragged that our electricity system is the gold standard for America.
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Turns out that worry and anxiety caused by loss of power is a full-time job that wears you out like you’ve been through the wringer and hung out to dry.
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Opinion
One of Texas’ first Black lawyers asked to ‘give us a white man’s chance.’ Few remember John Johnson
The first Black lawyer permitted to argue before the Texas Supreme Court was a century ahead of his time.
The Texas Supreme Court rolls showing John Johnson on the second line from the top. He was the first Black lawyer allowed to appear before the state s highest court.(Courtesy of John Browning)
Long before there was a Martin Luther King Jr. dreaming of equality and a Thurgood Marshall filing landmark civil rights lawsuits in the 20th century, there was John N. Johnson of Brazos County doing the same, only he did it in the previous century.