A land developer told the House Committee on Environmental Regulation on Sept. 15 that his 75-unit housing project in Williamson County waited exactly two years for one wastewater permit.
Two Panhandle landowners told state regulators on Sept. 14 that a power line projected to cost as much as $1.08 billion should not be built across Texas farmland at all, because the electricity demand driving it sits across the state line in New Mexico.
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D–Laredo, asked the two bank lobbyists in front of her a question nobody else on the dais had put that plainly: how widespread is politically motivated debanking in Texas?
Texas local governments owe $552 billion in debt service, and $330 billion of that is principal.
Texas took two runs at prediction markets on the same day.
Texas lawmakers have cut school property taxes in three straight sessions and committed roughly $51 billion of the current budget to keeping those cuts in place.
Texas has enrolled more than 368,000 women in its flagship no-cost women's health program.
About one out of every ten acres of Texas cropland that depends on rain rather than irrigation has been given up on this year.
A lawyer for the prediction market Kalshi sat before the Senate Committee on State Affairs on Sept. 15 and told Texas senators that betting on the Cowboys is a federally regulated swap, not gambling.
A coalition of North Texas hospitals has handed out more than 22,000 bottles of over-the-counter iron to pregnant women, and the region's blood transfusion rate has fallen.