Cudahy in a 1995 article ... natural gas and oil resources of its own to fuel power plants.) ERCOT was formed in 1970, in the wake of a major blackout in the Northeast in November 1965 ...

He became the embodiment of power in the working-class immigrant city along the 710 Freeway. His up-from-the-bootstraps story made him a hero to some — a kind of “Mr. Cudahy,” with a tattoo ...