FRI brief 5.6.22

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Heads up, Sunday is Mother’s Day; plan accordingly. Also, Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas.

Today’s Stories

ERCOT is advising electricity generators to forego planned maintenance and for those already performing maintenance to get back online this weekend to ensure there aren’t outages.

While temperatures are expected to be unseasonably high, outages aren’t anticipated. Novel idea, Texas’ electric generation scheme should be resilient to swings in weather and cyber attacks.

ERIC JOHNSON, the mayor of Dallas, wants another NFL team in his city.

Mayor Eric Johnson @Johnson4Dallas

Does the Dallas area need another NFL team? | ⁦@DallasMayor⁩ Eric Johnson says Dallas-Fort Worth will soon be the largest U.S. metropolitan area without two ⁦@NFL⁩ teams — so he suggests putting one in South Dallas Another NFL team in North Texas? Dallas’ mayor thinks it’s timeDallas Mayor Eric Johnson says Dallas-Fort Worth will soon be the largest U.S. metropolitan area without two NFL teams -- so he suggests putting one in South Dallas.wfaa.com

May 6th 2022

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Two observations:

1. Johnson’s plea is almost certainly a real estate boondoggle.

2. Tell us the Cowboys have been terrible for a quarter-century without telling us the Cowboys have been terrible for a quarter-century.

Bonus Joke: We were unaware Dallas even had one NFL team. (AC)

AUSTIN votes to spend $1 million on a so-called “guaranteed income program.”  The so-called ‘pilot program’ will provide $1000 per month to 85 households selected by city hall.

This program is illegal under state law and will never see the light of day.  Lawsuits are likely to emerge.

Meanwhile, in other developments from yesterday’s city council meeting.

Alex Strenger 🍊 @TheAlexStrenger

We need to reinstate the mask mandates 😷

May 6th 2022

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Noticeably absent from the meeting were Mackenzie Kelly and Leslie Pool.

Mackenzie Kelly @mkelly007

Yesterday, I experienced a medical event that required me to go to the hospital and prevented me from attending our council meeting. I want to thank my staff, the community, and my colleagues for your concern. I’m feeling much better and recovered. Time to get back to work 💪🏼

May 6th 2022

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TEXAS DEMOCRATS hope Roe v. Wade repeal will energize their voters ahead of the midterms. Maybe it will be less dead than 2022 would have otherwise been but there simply aren’t enough pro-abortion voters in Texas for it to matter.

CAMPAIGN SIGN THEFT is en vogue this year. Note to would-be thieves, stealing signs from cops is an unwise decision.

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