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#1 Texas Oil Executives Are Frustrated at Trump for Crushing Crude Prices
Apr 9 2025 // The angry mutterings at the Permian Basin Petroleum Association’s “Spring Swing” golf tournament this week weren’t all about missed putts or lost balls. The Texas oilmen on the fairways had a more...
#2 Texas Attempt to Kickstart New Gas-Fired Power Is Stumbling
Apr 8 2025 // A Texas experiment to fund new natural gas-burning power plants with $5 billion in public loans is faltering as several of the proposed facilities drop out, threatening the state’s efforts to meet growing electricity...
#3 Hays County, Texas Sheriff’s Office Recovers $220K of ‘Cloned’ GMC Denalis
Apr 11 2025 // The Hays County, Texas Sheriff’s Office said it has recovered four stolen trucks with cloned vehicle identification numbers. The Hays County Sheriff’s Auto Theft Unit worked with the Hays County Tax...
#4 Former Texas Insurance Broker Charged in Alleged Scam
Apr 17 2025 // A former Friendswood, Texas insurance agent turned himself into authorities last week over charges that he fraudulently brokered insurance policies, the Friendswood Police Department announced. Edgar Peralta of Edgar...
#5 Texas Lawsuit Accuses Copart of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
Apr 15 2025 // A lawsuit filed in Texas this month accuses online vehicle auction provider Copart of gender discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment. Christine Arnold, a former global vice president of human resources for...
#6 Texas Is Ground Zero for the US Battery Boom
Apr 10 2025 // “Drill, baby, drill” may be Texas’s unofficial motto, but “store, baby, store” is becoming more accurate. The Lone Star State may be the heart of America’s oil and gas map, but...
#7 BlackRock Plans for Texas ETF Amid Its Push Into Lone Star State
Apr 1 2025 // BlackRock Inc. is going even bigger in Texas. The world’s biggest asset manager applied for the iShares Texas Equity exchange-traded fund, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The...
#8 Texas Governor Abbott Signs Bill Inspired by DOGE
Apr 24 2025 // Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed the first law of this year’s legislative session, a bill creating a new regulation-cutting agency inspired by Elon Musk’s federal Department of Government...
#9 West Texas Prepares for Oil Downturn Amid Trump Tariffs
Apr 10 2025 // When President Donald Trump boasted about falling oil prices on social media early Monday, the Texas oil and gas industry didn’t cheer along with him. Trump’s latest round of tariffs set off unease among...
#10 RFK Jr. Visits Texas Measles Epicenter After Death of Second Child Who Was Infected
Apr 8 2025 // U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert K. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas’ still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child who was not vaccinated...
#11 Texas Man Suing Tennessee Titans Player Over Shooting at Car Lot
Apr 14 2025 // A Texas man who says Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed or his personal assistant shot at him while he was sitting inside a Mercedes-Benz on a dealer lot in December is suing the two-time Super Bowl champ for at least...
#12 Texas-Based Insurtech Steadily Secures $30M Series C Round
Apr 23 2025 // Steadily, a provider of landlord insurance in the U.S., announced $30 million in Series C funding led by Two Sigma Ventures at a $355 million valuation. Steadily serves 18 million individual rental property owners who...
#13 AM Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of Texas’ PrimeOne Insurance Group
Apr 21 2025 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B- (Fair) from B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bb-” (Fair) from “bbb-” (Good) of PrimeOne Insurance Company in Dallas,...
#14 South Texas Storms Expected to Cause Over $100M in Damage
Apr 3 2025 // At 2 a.m. Friday, Rick Saldaña was traveling back to Edinburg from Mercedes, a city about 26 miles away, in an area known as the Mid-Valley. The roads were flooded. The frontage roads that feed into the expressway...
#15 Capital Farm Credit Acquires Two Texas Agencies
Apr 21 2025 // The Board of Directors for Capital Farm Credit recently supported the purchase of two crop insurance agencies in the Texas Plains Region in an acquisition agreement aimed at serving as a long-term provider of critical crop...
#16 Texas Bill Would Add New Regulations for Renewable Energy Sector
Apr 9 2025 // Texas’ renewable energy industry is booming. Accounting for nearly 90% of new electrical generation, wind, solar and battery storage industries have established themselves as a reliable source of energy for the...
#17 Texas Farmers Fear Proposed Legislation Could Devastate Hemp Economy
Apr 23 2025 // Andrew Hill, who studied and farmed hemp in California before it was legal in Texas, was a keynote speaker at the state’s first-ever agricultural hemp expo in Dallas in 2019. Amid considerable hype and excitement...
#18 Tariff ‘Chaos’ Drags Key Texas Manufacturing Gauge to Worst Since 2020
Apr 29 2025 // A widely followed measure of Texas manufacturing activity weakened significantly as executives used words like “chaos” and “insanity” to describe the turmoil spurred by President Donald...
#19 Risk Strategies Acquires Texas’ GMC Advisors
Apr 28 2025 // Risk Strategies announced that it has acquired GMC Advisors, LLC., based in Houston, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headed by owner Greg Chubon, GMC Advisors is a specialist in commercial lines insurance...
#20 Three Workers Killed in Scaffold Collapse at LNG Plant in Texas
Apr 30 2025 // Three workers were killed and two were injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday at a liquefied natural gas plant that Sempra is building in Texas. The two survivors at the Port Arthur LNG project were...
