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Not always but sometimes, great reporting can move the needle. Here are the latest results of @sara_dinatale's expose of Texas' residential solar energy sector. @ricbrack
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Ric Brack
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Ric Brack
@ricbrack
Business Editor, San Antonio Express-News. Previously: The Associated Press, Nielsen Business Media, The Des Moines Register, Lawrence Journal-World, etc
San Antonio and Longview, TX Katılım Ekim 2009
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.@sara_dinatale's gutsy reporting exposed sleazy sales, financing practices in Texas' rooftop solar sector. Today, she won @PolkAwards. She had help from, among others, @JessPhelpsphoto @SamOwensphoto @WesleyRatko @montewithane @ricbrack @act_rational
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.@sara_dinatale researched her series on solar energy scams while covering an insanely busy news beat: Texas energy, including @ERCOT_ISO. Here's the first of her 4 stories.@ricbrack @montewithane @act_rational @WesleyRatko @Michelfortier @JessPhelpsphoto
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An explosion in sales of rooftop solar systems across Texas opened the door wide to deceptive sales practices, overblown promises, expensive loans and shoddy workmanship, a San Antonio Express-News investigation found. l8r.it/nAZq
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USAA Federal Savings Bank has quietly moved its headquarters from San Antonio to Phoenix
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As Texas embraces battery energy storage, Hill Country residents push back — ‘Not in our backyard’ expressnews.com/business/artic… via @expressnews
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NEW: We got the private training videos from Project 2025, which Trump seeks to disavow.
Advice:
-“Eradicate climate change references”
-Prepare for "persecution" & battle with the deep state
-Don't leave a paper trail
@AndyKroll & @NickSurgey:
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Exclusive: President Biden says Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick delayed federal Beryl aid to Texas.
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TX lawmakers to bitcoin: Babe, we need to talk. My latest for @ExpressNews. ➡️
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@alamodrafthouse, the Austin chain with dine-in, drink-in theaters in San Antonio and other U.S. major metros, is now owned by @SonyPictures. Terms weren't disclosed, but HQ to remain in Austin... expressnews.com/business/artic… via @expressnews
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Texas lawmakers discover today what @clairehao_ and I been writing about for months for @ExpressNews and @HoustonChron expressnews.com/business/artic…
Office of the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick@LtGovTX
ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and others gave shocking testimony today in the Senate Committee on Business & Commerce that within only six years (that’s only three legislative sessions), our power grid needs will grow from about 85,000 to 150,000 megawatts. That is much higher than the 110,000 megawatts they previously projected. The 110,000 megawatts was already a big increase, which is why the Senate pushed our incentive plan to build more dispatchable power last session. 150,000 megawatts is almost double the megawatts we now have on the grid. Later testimony said the growth is due to the increases in population, normal business growth, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, crypto miners and data centers will be responsible for over 50% of the added growth. We need to take a close look at those two industries. They produce very few jobs compared to the incredible demands they place on our grid. Crypto mining may actually make more money selling electricity back to the grid than from their crypto mining operations. Texans will ultimately pay the price. I’m more interested in building the grid to service customers in their homes, apartments, and normal businesses and keeping costs as low as possible for them instead of for very niche industries that have massive power demands and produce few jobs. We want data centers, but it can’t be the Wild Wild West of data centers and crypto miners crashing our grid and turning the lights off. The Senators asked why this had not been disclosed before today. #txlege
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New @elonmusk meme mural catches eyes near @SpaceX Starbase. 'Push the craziness,' its creator says as drivers pull in for selfies ... expressnews.com/business/artic… via @expressnews
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It's drawn a lot of Lone Star thumbs ups, but @Michael_Taylor is skeptical about the value and viability of a proposed Texas Stock Exchange. Here's why. expressnews.com/business/artic… via @expressnews
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SpaceX in final countdown for fourth launch of Starship this morning from South Texas expressnews.com/business/artic… via @expressnews
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Customers and lenders are suing the San Antonio food truck builder and its employees say checks sometimes won’t cash. Its CEO says he’s fighting for survival. bit.ly/3yUYd9t
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Sports team owners are shameless about using San Antonio as a pawn in schemes to squeeze better terms out of their home cities. @NRMoyle deftly unpacks the whole sorry history of these subterfuges.
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Toyota plans a half-billion dollar expansion to add more than 400 jobs in San Antonio, where it builds Tundra pickups and hybrid Sequoia SUVs. @madisoniszler and @sara_dinatale have the scoop.
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Though no one at the Pentagon asked, Port San Antonio wants to help the 16th Air Force find a new home on the Port’s Southwest Side campus to carry out its military cyber mission. trib.al/L8M7P1g
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When city officials pitched an ambitious, tax-funded job training program to San Antonio voters in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, they kept it simple.
“Jobs. Training. Higher Wages” was the campaign slogan. l8r.it/2Lte
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Visionary commissioner Brad Morrison of the new Texas Space Commission: R&D, communications & logistics are some of the many opportunities for Texas initiatives in space. 🤠🚀 13min read #infrastructure #satx
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'Texas has to win': New Texas space commissioner discusses state's booming space business trib.al/eJHi9eB
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