Jef Rouner
Jef Rouner is an award-winning freelance journalist, the author of The Rook Circle, and a member of The Black Math Experiment. He lives in Houston where he spends most of his time investigating corruption and strange happenings. Jef has written for Houston Press, Free Press Houston, and Houston Chronicle.
How Far Back Did Greg Abbott Know About the Texas Power Grid?
The blame game continues in Austin as the Republicans who appointed the people who oversee the Texas power grid continue to throw the people who...
PUC Under Fire, But Still Just Part of the Republican-Led Machine
Ever since Winter Storm Uri crippled the Texas electrical grid, there have been two scrambles from the Republican-led state government. The first is to...
Hearings on Winter Storm Uri to Begin
After millions of Texans were left without power and more than a dozen died thanks to Winter Storm Uri, the state government is looking...
What the Texas Government is Doing for Disaster Prep
The recent winter storm catastrophe that hit Texas left dozens dead, with the full death toll likely to not be calculated for months. In...
How Much Did Angela Paxton Know About AG’s Alleged Bribery?
The possible criminal activities of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton get weirder the more is uncovered about them. Now, it’s possible that his wife, State Sen....
Will the Delay in Census Data Impact the May Municipal and School Board Elections...
Every ten years the United States conducts a census to track the population, and the results determine how many districts a state has based in its...
Just Who Is ERCOT?
The winter storm that overloaded the Texas power grid and left more than 4 million residents without electricity as temperatures hit record lows has...
Texas Republicans Are Still Not Distancing Themselves from QAnon
QAnon is either a fringe right wing political ideology or the fastest growing new religion in America depending on who you talk to. Despite...
Texas GOP Secession Talk… Here We Go Again
I literally don’t remember a time when someone in my family wasn’t talking about how Texas should secede from the union once again, and...
Opinion: Back to School Means Being Afraid of School Shootings Again
My home office is right next to my daughter’s bedroom, so while I work I can often hear the background noise of her remote-matriculating...
