by Melody Meadows | Mar 1, 2021 | Business
The city of Denton on Thursday filed suit against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas alleging “unconstitutional use of public funds.” A judge granted a temporary restraining order in favor of the city late Thursday, according to a city news release sent out...
by Melody Meadows | Feb 27, 2021 | Business
February’s epic power failure hurt the state’s reputation and raised questions about its infrastructure. The Legislature must find a fix and keep the cheap energy coming. For years, people and companies have flocked to Texas for economic reasons, from fast job growth...
by Melody Meadows | Feb 27, 2021 | Entertainment
The King of Country’s spectacular mansion is one of a kind. Country crooner George Strait may have sung about all his exes living in Texas, but he can now also claim that some of those exes are homes. Most beloved among them is his newly listed San Antonio...
by Melody Meadows | Feb 26, 2021 | Business
As Texans continue to grapple with the devastation from recent winter storms, it is becoming increasingly clear that the failure of the state’s electric system was caused as much by an exceptional surge in demand for power as it was by a failure of power plants that...
by Melody Meadows | Feb 25, 2021 | Technology
Solar panels. Wind turbines. Electric vehicle batteries and motors. These are just four of the things that need one or more of a group of minerals known as rare earths. Incidentally, these are also four of the things the EU is basing its future on. And it produces...