“That’s the consensus of Houstonians. That’s mine.”

Houston Mayor John Whitmire, regarding his call for CenterPoint Energy, Houston’s biggest power utility, to do a better job providing service. The utility said about 500,000 customers will lack power into next week due to outages from Hurricane Beryl. After making landfall in Texas on Monday, Beryl knocked out power for around 2.7 million households. (Associated Press — July 11, 2024)