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Brian Melley, Associated Press Updated 3:39 pm CST, Thursday, January 31, 2019 FILE- In this Jan. 14, 2019, file photo the logo for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was not the first utility to declare bankruptcy, not even when it did so in 2001. But when the nation’s largest utility filed again for Chapter 11 protection this…

DAWN is a survivor. You can hear it when she tells her story and you can hear it when she sings her songs. The singer-songwriter-producer, f.k.a. D∆WN or Dawn Richard, first rose to notoriety as a member of Diddy’s R&B group Danity Kane. The group dropped its debut album in August of 2006, one year after Hurricane Katrina hit DAWN’s hometown of New Orleans. She still remembers being stranded on a highway with her family…

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From Texas Standard: Earlier this month, a rancher named Michael Martin Murphey, who lives in Colorado, was inducted into the Texas Music Legends Hall of Fame. Wondering why? Well, Murphey has a bit of a history with Texas music. Murphey wrote and recorded the hit song “Wildfire” in the 1970s, and today, he’s rerecorded it with additional vocals by Amy Grant. But that’s not all. “Wildfire” appears on a new collection of old songs that revisit a…

From Texas Standard: We have talked about the influence Texas lost when senior members of the U.S. House retired or lost re-election bids. But what about the freshman members who replaced them? On what committees did they land, and does a freshman committee assignment have any influence on that lawmaker’s trajectory in politics? And while we’re at it, what will the elevation of two non-freshman Texans, Eddie Bernice Johnson and Will Hurd, mean for the…

Before the next Hurricane Harvey strikes, and thousands of homes are damaged or destroyed, some Texas lawmakers want to make sure communities statewide are better prepared for future floods. On Tuesday, state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, filed legislation to establish Texas’ first-ever flood plan – slated for completion by September 2024. The statewide plan would incorporate regional plans to better coordinate flood-control projects and strategies. It would also look at flooding problems on a watershed…

A road crew improves a road along the U.S.-Mexico border on March 16, 2017 in Hidalgo, Texas. A San Antonio lawmaker filed legislation Wednesday that would direct two state agencies to study the potential effects a border wall could have on flooding and the environment in Texas. Democratic representative Roland Gutierrez said he wanted to initiate the study after reading a Texas Monthly story (published in partnership with Type Investigations at the Nation Institute) that details…

DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our next guest, Brian Palmer, is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker who directed the film “Full Disclosure,” based on his time embedded with Marines in Iraq. Now he lives in Richmond, Va., where he focuses on cleaning up cemeteries where African-Americans are buried. He’s found that many of these cemeteries where former slaves are buried have been neglected, while the graves of confederate soldiers are well-maintained, often with…