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While Austin City Council has entertained finding an alternative to Texas Gas Service, it now appears ready to award the company another long-term contract.

The city run utility argues gas generators are the only feasible way forward for the utility as it faces booming energy demand and congested transmission lines.

Austin Energy, the city's electric utility, says the project is necessary to fight high energy costs and guarantee reliability into the future. But gas generators contribute to climate change and create toxic air emissions.

After Bo French asked his social media followers whether Jews or Muslims were a “bigger threat to America,” Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for him to step down from his position at the Tarrant County GOP. Patrick is now backing French in his bid to be the next Texas railroad commissioner.

In 2022, Sarah Stogner ran an insurgent Republican primary campaign for a seat on the Railroad Commission of Texas.

Extreme heat is especially dangerous in the early summer, when people's bodies are not as accustomed to higher temperatures.

The City Council may have been voting on Austin Energy matters in closed-door meetings since 1999. The votes are kept so secret that public records do not even indicate that they happened at all.

The state office that distributes billions to expand Texas rural broadband is facing allegations of “favoritism” and offering “sweetheart” deals to company's that provide low earth orbit satellite broadband.

The Texas office responsible for distributing over $5 billion in state and federal money to expand rural broadband faced allegations of "favoritism" and

Director Kristin Tièche says the seed for her new documentary, The Invisible Mammal, was planted back in 1999, when she was a film student in upstate New York.