AUSTIN – Lawmakers have been thinking ahead to a massive shortfall, topping $10 billion, that’s probably coming when they write the next budget in 2011. But state officials told them Monday that they’ll have to fix a hole in the current budget, too.
Rising health care costs have dug a hole of about $1.7 billion, the [...]
Corridor Segment Committee to help develop new MY35 plan
AUSTIN — During the next six months, four Interstate 35 Corridor Segment Committees along the I-35 corridor will meet monthly as part of a new citizen-driven planning effort to develop a blueprint of improvements for the corridor. These committees are comprised of regional community, business, and transportation [...]
WASHINGTON – A group of Democratic senators may seek to halt stimulus funding for wind-energy projects over concerns that the program is subsidizing jobs overseas.
The dispute was prompted by a proposed wind farm in West Texas, whose investors planned to use Chinese-made turbines and seek a $450 million stimulus grant. The senators insist that stimulus [...]
DALLAS — A Dallas Housing Authority chief has reversed a ban on Sunday worship services at a public housing apartment complex for the elderly.
DHA President MaryAnn Russ said Thursday that Lake Highlands United Methodist Church can have services at Audelia Manor this Sunday after all.
Russ says she misspoke when she said such services violate the [...]
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Border residents fear more violence as rival drug cartels battle for lucrative smuggling routes to Texas. The fight pits former allies — the Zetas against the Gulf Cartel, according to U.S. law enforcement and Mexican officials.
The spike in violence spans the border from Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo and several Mexican towns [...]
It might turn out that Texas lost some 50,000 more jobs last year than current data indicate. And according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, most of the extra job losses appear to have been in the Dallas area.
The Texas Workforce Commission is expected to release a monthly jobs report for January as early [...]
Kay Bailey Hutchison concedes
