The board that runs the $226 billion Texas teacher pension fund opens a two-day meeting Sept. 17 with changes to the policy meant to keep the fund on course set for the second day — two months after staff told trustees that policy had been tripped.
Texas utility regulators clear their calendar Sept. 17 for a single case: whether a 180-megawatt data center may sit behind the meter at a West Texas solar farm and have its power use netted against what the panels produce.
The four-member state board that has to sign off before most Texas bonds reach the market meets Sept. 17 to vote on a water borrowing authorized at up to $2.2 billion.
The board that licenses Texas accountants takes up 517 disciplinary cases Sept. 17.
The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists meets Sept. 17 on a rejected license application and an enforcement case that went to a state hearings judge.
The board that certifies every respiratory therapist in Texas meets Sept. 17 to take up two sets of changes to its own rulebook.
Texas oil and gas wells throw off roughly 26 million barrels of salty wastewater a day, and operators pump nearly 30 million barrels a day back underground.
About 1,200 feet from Heather Peysen's house on Three Way Road in Archer County, a company wants to build a data center that would pull 1,000 megawatts off the Texas grid — more than one percent of the record demand the entire state hit this summer.
A Texas Senate panel spent most of a nine-hour hearing Sept. 14 on a question with no bill in front of it: whether the state's family courts take too long to end a marriage and decide who raises the children.
Amarillo told its residents in August that the coming city budget would raise $1,596,402 more in property taxes than last year's, an increase of 1.94 percent.