Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market  —  WASHINGTON - Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state's power grid.

“We're in it alone”: Power outages leave millions of Texans desperate for heat and safety  —  Texas residents said the storm — and ensuing partial collapse of the state's power system — sapped what mental reserves they had left after eleven months of a global health crisis that has cost thousands …

The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn't see the need to prepare for cold weather  —  Republicans blame frozen wind turbines, but the problem was much bigger than that  —  When it gets really cold, it can be hard to produce electricity, as customers in Texas and neighboring states are finding out.

Colorado City mayor resigns, responds to his controversial Facebook post  —  Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd has resigned.  Boyd acknowledged the resignation Tuesday afternoon while responding to criticism he received for a controversial Facebook post.  Tuesday morning, Boyd voiced his frustrations …

No, frozen wind turbines aren't the main culprit for Texas' power outages  —  Lost wind power makes up only a fraction of the reduction in power generating capacity that has brought outages to millions of Texans across the state during a major winter storm.  —  Copy link

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, Green New Deal policies for outages.  Critics call that ‘a lie.’  —  As millions of people across Texas struggled to stay warm Tuesday amid massive cold-weather power outages, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed his ire at one particular failure …

Texas mayor says he had already resigned after writing ‘only the strong will survive’ amid cold, power outages  —  Tim Boyd says he wrote the Facebook message as a private citizen, not the mayor of Colorado City.  —  The mayor of a West Texas town said Tuesday that he had already resigned …

Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio's Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70  —  A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump.  —  Rush Limbaugh, the relentlessly provocative voice of conservative America who dominated talk radio …

Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 after battle with lung cancer  —  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his wife announced on his radio show.  —  The big picture: Limbaugh was one of the most influential conservative media personalities in the country for over three decades.

Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70  —  Limbaugh saturated America's airwaves with cruelty and conspiracies, amassing millions of listeners and transforming the Republican Party.  —  Rush Limbaugh, a talk radio pioneer who saturated America's airwaves with cruel bigotries …