Sen. Hinojosa Reminds Texans Of Sales Tax Holiday This Weekend

August 4, 2022

By DAVID A. DÍAZ, [email protected] Texas’ highly successful annual Sales Tax Holiday is scheduled this year from Friday, August 5, through midnight Sunday, August 7, 2022 and will offer Texans an opportunity to save millions in state and local sales tax…

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Why the High Plains turns off its turbines to limit wind production while the Texas power grid is stressed

August 3, 2022

Photo above: The Hale Wind Farm is outside of Petersburg and south of Plainview. Credit: Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribune By Jayme Lozano, The Texas Tribune, Aug. 2, 2022 LUBBOCK — The state’s High Plains region, which covers 41 counties in…

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Dallas landlord made record profits while evading eviction moratoriums, U.S. House committee says

August 2, 2022

Photo above: An aerial view of a Houston housing complex in 2019. A U.S. House subcommittee found that four corporate landlords tried to evict thousands of tenants while a federal ban on evictions was in place. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune…

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Bio Bonanza!!

August 1, 2022

Dr. M. Ray Perryman, July 27, 2022 The Texas economy has been setting the standard for economic growth, leading the country in major new corporate locations for the past 10 straight years. The population is also diverse and growing, which…

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Texas Drops To #5

July 26, 2022

Dr. M. Ray Perryman, July 20, 2022 About this time last year, I referred to Texas falling to fourth in the CNBC rankings of top states for business as “eerily disturbing.” That remark got more attention than I anticipated. My…

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Offshore wind farm proposed for Gulf of Mexico near Galveston could power 2.3 million homes

July 22, 2022

Photo above: U.S. President Joe Biden holds up a wind turbine size comparison chart while attending a meeting with governors, labor leaders and private companies launching the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership at the White House on June 23. Credit:REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque…

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Hot and Dry

July 19, 2022

Dr. M. Ray Perryman Virtually all of Texas is now abnormally dry. Comparisons to the bone-dry days of 2011 have begun, and it’s not looking good. In fact, given the scope of the drought and the higher costs of inputs,…

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Perryman Column: Working

June 29, 2022

Dr. M. Ray Perryman, June 22, 2022 May was another solid month for the Texas job market, with the state posting by far the largest gain across the nation (+74,200), well above California (+42,900) and New York (+26,800). Texas was…

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Confidence

June 21, 2022

Dr. M. Ray Perryman, June 15, 2022 The latest surveys of consumers indicate that, as a whole, we are becoming a less optimistic lot. Because our spending on goods and services normally represents around 70% of the economy, that is…

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STC Manufacturing Goes International

June 10, 2022

MCALLEN, TEXAS (JUNE 10, 2022) – South Texas College is extending its workforce development training and services for the first time ever to manufacturers south of the border. After nearly a decade of trying, STC is finally making ground with…

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