Tuesday, May 18, 2021 The Legislature’s hard-right push may placate the GOP base, but it didn’t deliver for the rest of Texas Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Tue, May 18, 2021 at 4:31 PM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Chmorich The Republican-controlled Texas Lege, goaded on by Gov. Greg Abbott, embraced a hard-right agenda this session. By any reasonable measure, the Texas Legislature had big issues to tackle this session. There was the crippling February snowstorm that left millions without power, exposing the instability of the state’s electrical grid. There was the prospect of a Medicaid expansion that would have helped the one in five Texans with no medical insurance. And then there was the expansive George Floyd Bill
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Thursday, February 25, 2021 Gov. Abbott s TV speech blames ERCOT for Texas blackouts, again fails to own up to wider failures Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:23 AM click to enlarge YouTube Screen Capture / Gov Greg Abbott Gov. Greg Abbott lets his hands do the talking during his Wednesday prime-time address. During a rare statewide address Wednesday evening, Gov. Greg Abbott aimed to reassure Texans that he and the Legislature will correct issues that caused millions to endure blackouts during last week s historic winter storm. But observers say the televised prime-time speech fell back on Abbott s attacks on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which only deserves part of the blame. It also did