Uh oh —> Ex-ERCOT chief says he was following Abbott's direction when they ran up billions in bills during freeze. (This wasn’t what we were told FYI) houstonchronicle.com/business/energ… via @osborneja #txlege There’s some interesting stuff in the “diary” former @ERCOT_ISO CEO Bill Magness kept. I’m reading it now #txlege

Texas GOP candidate @ShelleyLuther complains that students can’t make fun of transgender children: "I couldn’t have kids laugh at them." My story from Bonham, TX #txlege 1/ houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… Catapulted into political stardom after being jailed for defying a pandemic lockdown order, @ShelleyLuther, a former teacher, told Republican voters in northeast Texas Saturday: "I'm not comfortable with the transgenders." #txlege 2/

While average Texans struggle to pay property taxes, many ministers of the gospel are living in tax-free luxury thanks to a generous exemption in state law. That shifts the burden to others -- to you. See how in our “Unfair Burden” series.
houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga… #txlege Our investigation of tax-free clergy residences, a.k.a. “parsonages,” found a loophole allowing religious orgs to claim as many tax-free homes as they can fit ministers into. One church in tony Highland Park (Dallas) had 11 at the start of 2021. #txlege houstonchronicle.com/projects/2021/…

When the pandemic hit I thought it might be useful to get records of the dealings @utmbhealth had with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. I didn't know I was about to go on a remarkable journey of opacity, crazy cost estimates and insane delays #txlege 1/ I wanted to see @utmbhealth records because, as @nickpowellchron reported, scientists there "helped train staff from the Wuhan lab." #transparency #txlege 2/ houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

The state of Texas gave us a censored version of its $295 million contract for contact tracing. The contractor got to decide what to black out. Since we also got the unredacted version we know what they didn’t want you to see #COVID19 #transparency houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… This is what the recipient of a $295m TX contract allowed the state to reveal publicly about how it proposed to ramp up the hiring of contact tracers (The state says it let the contractor, @MTX_Inc, choose what to reveal and what to censor) #COVID19