Batch Zero Takes Effect July 11 as Abbott’s Data-Center Ratepayer Memo Comes Due
Texas' effort to control who pays for the power that data centers demand reaches two hard markers this month.
Texas' effort to control who pays for the power that data centers demand reaches two hard markers this month.
For the first time since the pandemic-era run-up, some Texas homeowners are seeing their appraised values fall — a shift that, paired with this year's larger homestead exemption, should ease the tax burden on many households when bills arrive this fall.
The market for recycled plastic bottles has fallen so far that the material Texas buries by the millions is now worth almost nothing at the curb — a collapse that supports say strengthens the argument for a container-deposit system in a state that has none.
Texas is preparing to fund special education based on how much service a student needs rather than where that student sits, one of the largest structural changes in the state's school-finance system in years, as the Texas Education Agency rolls out implementation guidance for House Bill 2 ahead of the 2026-27 school year.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States rose to 31 as of July 1, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed-detections dashboard.
Texas began distributing its first Education Freedom Account payments on July 1, with nearly 73,000 families set to receive funds in the opening round, according to a news release from the state comptroller's office.
A network representing 45 rural and community hospitals across Texas is moving to terminate its contracts with UnitedHealthcare, a standoff that turns on the reimbursement rates rural facilities say are too low to keep their doors open.
Texas health insurers are filing their proposed 2027 marketplace rates this summer after enhanced federal premium subsidies that supported Affordable Care Act coverage for millions expired.
The southernmost leg of Texas's Permian Basin Reliability Plan — the Howard–Solstice 765-kilovolt line proposed by CPS Energy and AEP Texas — has moved into its proposal-for-decision phase, leaving landowners, conservation groups and the utilities to await an administrative law judge's route recommendation.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States climbed to 29 as of June 30, with a dog in Pecos County becoming the first Texas case in a companion animal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's confirmed-detections dashboard as reported by Yahoo News and the farm outlet AGDAILY.