San Antonio Express-News

In the wake of the historic 2021 winter storm that sent Texas’ energy grid teetering on the brink of failure, causing rolling blackouts across the state, solar panel companies saw an opportunity.⁠ ⁠ In the intervening months and years, these upstart firms sent door-to-door sales agents to neighborhoods throughout the state. But many of them used shady tactics to sell solar panels, often to people who couldn’t afford them.⁠ ⁠ In a four-part Express-News series on the rapid expansion of Texas’ residential solar industry, reporter Sara DiNatale reviewed thousands of pages of documents, lawsuits, installation contracts, loan agreements and other records. She interviewed more than three dozen homeowners, installers, solar business owners, industry experts and others.⁠ ⁠ Sign up for a free Zoom event, set for 11 a.m. on Feb. 5, to learn more about this issue: https://bit.ly/3WIhFj4

He has served as interim president since the departure of Paul Vincent in May.

It was the first time in 12 years that Arlington has opened new land for fracking. TotalEnergies will drill 10 new gas wells amid an uptick in Barnett Shale activity.

USAA Federal Savings Bank has appointed Michael Moran to serve as president of the embattled financial institution. https://trib.al/Lb1rUtd

Max & Louie's owner Drew Glick serves his Grandma Lily's recipe for matzo ball soup. Like many grandmothers, Grandma Lily “always had an apron on and was always cooking,” he said, but never wrote anything down.⁠ ⁠ “Grandma Lily made the best matzo balls on Earth,” said Glick, who was rolling matzo balls at age 5.⁠ ⁠ Since opening Max & Louie's in 2016, Glick has carried on the Ashkenazi tradition, selling “hundreds and hundreds” of bowls of matzo ball soup each week. ⁠ ⁠ “We sell matzo ball soup when it’s 100 degrees outside and when it’s 20 degrees,” said Glick, who even supplied local H-E-B stores with quarts of matzo ball soup in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.⁠ ⁠ What's one thing that makes them “perfect?” They must float, according to Glick.⁠ ⁠ “There are two types of matzo balls: floaters and sinkers,” Glick said “We’re a floater family.”⁠ ⁠ Read the full story: https://bit.ly/40EbUDX

Elon Musk-led EV and battery company missed Wall Street’s expectations for the final three months of 2024 but predicted a “return to growth in 2025.”

Expanding retailers like Burlington are quick to snatch up sites left empty by struggling peers.

Several federal agencies are teaming up to sweep San Antonio and other major cities as President Donald Trump follows through on plans for the mass deportation of immigrants illegally residing in the U.S.⁠ ⁠ “We target individuals with criminal records — the worst of the worst,” Miguel Vergara, San Antonio field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, told a crowd of more than 130 people at a City Council District 10 community meeting on the Northeast Side earlier this week.⁠ ⁠ ICE conducted operations in San Antonio and Austin along with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.⁠ ⁠ Collaboration between federal departments is not uncommon, Vergara said, but the agencies under Trump are working together “more openly and aggressively.”⁠ ⁠ Read more here: https://bit.ly/3EcBlFg

Blake Lively's legal team has set Texas as the stage for a portion of her legal battle against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni.⁠ ⁠ The actress filed a request for the deposition of Austin-based independent contractor Jed Wallace, whose company Street Relations specializes in “public relations and crisis management services.”⁠ ⁠ Lively's legal team claims Wallace played a critical role in “(weaponizing) a digital army around the country” against her.⁠ ⁠ Read more about the actors' legal feud and its connection to Texas. https://bit.ly/40RzXk9

The center will be one of just a couple of dozen such facilities across the U.S. It comes as the industry is facing a growing shortage of trained technicians.