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Electricity costs and reliability are top of mind for Texas voters, according to a poll.

  IMAGE ADDRESS Following a summer of increased household energy costs in the aftermath of last year's catastrophic winter power outages, most Texans favour improvements to make the state's electricity grid more stable, according to a recent polling firm research. The survey, conducted in early September by the progressive research firm Data for Progress, discovered that immigration and grid reliability are among the most important issues for Texas voters, among other social and economic challenges. Still reeling from the consequences of Winter Storm Uri, the study found that a majority of voters across the party spectrum believed state officials did not effectively safeguard them from rising prices caused by the storm. According to a study of 700 likely voters, nearly seven out of ten Texans indicated their home energy bills are currently higher than they were a year ago. The survey was carried out in both English and Spanish, including text and web page responses. "These...

CBS News • Bill Plante • The White House

  Former CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante Dies at 84 Bill Plante, the iconic CBS News journalist, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 84 due to respiratory failure. Image address Plante, a legend in the Washington media scene, left CBS News in 2016 after 52 years. On June 1, 1964, he began working for CBS News as a reporter/assignment editor in New York. Over the next fifty years, he would complete four tours in Vietnam (1964, 1967, 1971–1972, and 1975), as well as reporting from Iceland, Moscow, and Teheran for the network. From 1988 to 1995, he was the face of CBS's flagship evening newscast and he covered the White House for CBS News during the administrations of four different presidents. Plante spoke with Dr. King during the march from Selma in 1965. I learnt from folks like [Mike] Wallace, [Walter] Cronkite, and many more," he said in an interview with TVNewser in 2014. For the first time, I got a taste of what professional reporting entailed. This isn...