Developers propose more than 100 new gas power plants in Texas

Developers propose more than 100 new gas power plants in Texas

Register for The Quick, The Texas Tribune’s day-to-day e-newsletter that maintains visitors up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Business plan to develop greater than 100 new gas-fired nuclear power plant in Texas in the next few years amidst a race to fulfill substantial electric demand from energy-hungry markets, according to a report … Read more

Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season

Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season

Register for The Short, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that maintains readers up to speed up on one of the most essential Texas information. FORT WELL WORTH– With hurricane period underway and an above-normal activity forecast, some National Climate Service offices like Houston– where as many as 44 % of placements are vacant– are operating … Read more

Lawmakers passed bills this session to boost the state power grid but failed to limit renewables

Lawmakers passed bills this session to boost the state power grid but failed to limit renewables

Solar, wind and battery storage space account for a lot of the new energy generation in Texas, according to ERCOT, and Texas is a national leader in renewable energy– a trend legislators unsuccessfully tried to reverse. One of the most sweeping effort was Us senate Expense 819 by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, which would certainly … Read more

Texas Republicans pioneered in-state tuition for undocumented students. Now they’re celebrating its end.

Texas Republicans pioneered in-state tuition for undocumented students. Now they’re celebrating its end.

Register for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s everyday newsletter that maintains readers up to speed up on one of the most crucial Texas information. Twenty-five years earlier, Texas ended up being the very first state to grant in-state tuition to certain undocumented trainees. It was an uncontroversial legislation, gone by the Legislature in 2001 without … Read more

Voters will have final say on billions of tax cuts for Texas homeowners, businesses

Voters will have final say on billions of tax cuts for Texas homeowners, businesses

Sign up for The Y’ all– an once a week send off regarding the people, areas and plans specifying Texas, generated by Texas Tribune reporters living in areas across the state. Citizens will be asked to approve property tax cuts for Texas house owners and businesses in November. If citizens concur, house owners will see … Read more

Texas lawmakers voted to ban consumable THC products. Will Gov. Greg Abbott sign — or veto — the bill?

Texas lawmakers voted to ban consumable THC products. Will Gov. Greg Abbott sign — or veto — the bill?

Enroll in The Short, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps viewers up to speed up on one of the most important Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott is facing extreme political stress over a bill that would certainly outlaw items consisting of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, as hemp market leaders place a full-court press advising the … Read more

Republican-led 140-day legislative session pushes Texas to the right

Republican-led 140-day legislative session pushes Texas to the right

In a major win for Patrick, lawmakers authorized a restriction on items having tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, fulfilling the lieutenant governor’s priority of eliminating Texas’ flourishing hemp industry. Under legislation sent out to the guv last week, Senate Costs 3 , hemp merchants and entertainment customers would be permitted to sell and eat only the non-intoxicating, … Read more

Texas Legislature approves $338 billion two-year spending plan with a focus on property tax relief

Texas Legislature approves $338 billion two-year spending plan with a focus on property tax relief

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps viewers up to speed on the most vital Texas information. Texas legislators signed off Saturday on a $ 338 billion two-year budget that guides billions towards treking instructor pay, cutting real estate tax and supporting the state’s water framework, after House and Senate … Read more

Starbase, Texas’ newest city, has liftoff; seeks $1.5 million loan from Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Starbase, Texas' newest city, has liftoff; seeks $1.5 million loan from Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Register for The Y’ all– a regular dispatch concerning the people, locations and plans defining Texas, generated by Texas Tribune journalists residing in communities throughout the state. STARBASE– Texas’ newest city had liftoff this week. Starbase city leaders were promised in Thursday and assigned a mayor. On Friday, they reunited to authorize a financing demand … Read more

Texas moves close to ban on some land sales to foreigners

Texas moves close to ban on some land sales to foreigners

Register for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s everyday e-newsletter that keeps visitors up to speed on the most important Texas news. With simply 3 days left before the due date, your house has actually authorized the bargained version of an expense that bans people tied to the federal governments of China, North Korea, Russia and … Read more