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.
Texas asked the House Committee on Energy Resources to check the homework it set itself.
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.
Texas would bar a behavior analyst from letting artificial intelligence help write a child’s therapy plan unless the family signed off first — and would forbid the analyst from ever letting the software make the call alone.
The state's most influential conservative think tank told a Senate panel Sept. 14 that parental controls are not enough and Texas should prohibit social media for anyone under 18 — a mandate, from an organization that usually argues against them.
The organization that runs the power grid for most of Texas told state regulators on Sept. 11 that it will send a survey of roughly 130 questions this week to 461 data center projects waiting to plug in, asking who owns them, where their water and cooling will come from, whether they can supply any of their own electricity, and what financial help they have sought from the communities around them.