Guest Pod: Progress Texas Daily Dispatch, August 25 2023

The Austin Daily Drop

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ERCOT and the Texas power grid narrowly avoided rolling blackouts last night - what's in store for this hot weekend? ⁠https://www.tpr.org/environment/2023-08-24/strong-possibility-of-power-outages-thursday-evening-san-antonio-asks-residents-to-conserve⁠

...Follow along with ERCOT's supply and demand dashboard, showing a thin margin of error during Friday night football games tonight: ⁠https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand⁠

...While space telescope data may finger Permian methane emissions as a major contributor to this horribly hot summer: ⁠https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Permian-Methane-Flares-Could-Be-Linked-to-Texas-Heatwave.html⁠

Conservative activists are putting huge pressure on GOP Senators to stick with Ken Paxton during the upcoming impeachment trial: ⁠https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/24/texas-senators-ken-paxton-trial/⁠

...While none other that former Texas Governor Rick Perry laments his party's recent lawlessness: ⁠https://www.wsj.com/articles/ken-paxton-and-the-texas-constitution-ag-rule-of-law-impeachment-4da7792c⁠

Denton joins in support of Houston's lawsuit against the new Death Star law: ⁠https://www.keranews.org/government/2023-08-24/denton-joins-arlington-plano-waco-in-opposing-texas-death-star-bill-calling-it-unconstitutional⁠

A Granbury school board trustee is censured for sneaking into a high school library to inspect books in the dark: ⁠https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/25/granbury-texas-trustee-censure-library/⁠

...While a San Antonio parent successully faces down a Judson ISD campus for requiring NDA signatures to enter the building: ⁠https://nypost.com/2023/08/24/texas-school-tried-to-force-mom-to-sign-nda-to-get-on-campus/⁠

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