State Rep. Jared Patterson is a Republican from Frisco.
This past summer the Texas electric grid sustained 11 new all-time peak demand records. We were able to manage our way through the record setting temperatures and demands for electricity in large part due to conservative operations of the grid and changes enacted by Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas legislature. Long term, however, we...
Praise God for Elisjsha Dicken, the young man who stopped the attempted shooting at an Indiana mall by exercising his Second Amendment rights. Across America, there are likely countless heroes like him whose stories we’ve never heard precisely because they succeeded — honorable, responsible men and women who do what it takes to stop senseless violence...
We are a nation in crisis. It’s not a gun crisis or even a mental health crisis. It’s a crisis of fatherlessness. Each time we see such senseless violence unfold as the devastating shooting that made the small town of Uvalde a household name, we cry anew for policy solutions. But almost every such attack...
As Texans are dealing with the aftermath of a harrowing week of blackouts, boil-water notices, and frigid temperatures, the finger-pointing has begun. Many of us, my colleagues in the Legislature included, are looking for someone, or something, to blame — understandably so. But we must move on from searching for a convenient scapegoat to understanding the truth of what happened and finding a solution for the systemic problems that led...