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#1 Texas Insurance Agent Pleaded Guilty After Stealing Premiums
Sep 19 2025 // A Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigation led to prison time for a former insurance agent who overcharged almost $300,000 in insurance premiums. Carlyle Poindexter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire...
#2 Texas Water Crisis Threatens Booming Industrial Hotspot for Exxon, Koch
Oct 14 2025 // Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to President Donald Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade...
#3 Singer’s Elliott Escalates Battle With Texas Private Equity Firm
Oct 6 2025 // Paul Singer’s Elliott Investment Management escalated a legal fight with a Texas-based private equity firm it has accused of charging excessive expenses. Stronghold Investment Management is being accused of...
#4 Higginbotham Acquires Texas’ Stephens Insurance Services
Oct 10 2025 // Higginbotham has acquired Lubbock, Texas-based Stephens Insurance Services, a benefits specialist. The collaboration pairs on-the-ground relationships with added resources to enhance combined service offerings across West...
#5 Rural Texas Residents Struggle with Noise Pollution from Nearby Crypto Facility
Oct 9 2025 // Danny Lakey and his wife have spent countless evenings sitting on rocking chairs on their front porch, watching the sun slowly dip behind the cows grazing on their neighbor’s ranch. It was the calm country life they...
#6 Grad Students are Developing a Way to Cool Texas Data Centers Without Water
Sep 29 2025 // Sai Abhideep Pundla has been awake since 3 a.m. After a red-eye flight from Las Vegas, where he briefed data center company executives and local government officials about the future of artificial intelligence, he’s...
#7 Texas to No Longer Issue Commercial Drivers Licenses for Many Immigrants
Oct 1 2025 // Texas will no longer issue or renew commercial driver’s licenses to DACA recipients, refugees or people with asylum, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced Monday. Commercial driver’s licenses, or...
#8 Texas Cities and Counties Prepare for Budget Shortfalls
Sep 18 2025 // Last year, Fort Worth gained a new distinction as Texas’ fourth city with more than 1 million people. While other major Texas cities grew at a slower clip or struggled to regain residents it lost during the COVID-19...
#9 Camp Owners in Texas Fear Closure Due to New Safety Regulations
Oct 14 2025 // Texas camp owners on Friday urged the state health agency to give them more time and flexibility on costly new safety requirements, saying they could be forced to close by next summer. “We support the goal of making...
#10 Rural Texas Communities Weigh Pros and Cons of Data Centers
Oct 6 2025 // Kendra Kay loved growing up in the quiet of West Texas. She enjoyed the peacefulness brought in by the open lands. She appreciated how everyone in her community had a purpose and contributed to their way of life. She never...
#11 Exxon Delays Planned Plastic Plant on Texas Coast
Oct 8 2025 // Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf coast, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun...
#12 Texas Stock Exchange Receives Federal Approval
Oct 7 2025 // The Texas Stock Exchange last week crossed its latest hurdle toward becoming a direct competitor to the dominance of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. The announcement that the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
#13 Camp Mystic Plans Partial Reopening After Devastating Texas Floods
Sep 24 2025 // Camp Mystic, the Christian girls’ camp where 25 young campers and two counselors died during the July 4 flooding, will reopen one of its campsites in 2026, according to an email shared with families. Camp Mystic...
#14 West Texas Gas Falls to 14-Month Low as Negative Prices Persist
Sep 18 2025 // Natural gas cash prices in West Texas, which dipped below zero in recent days, sank to the lowest in almost 14 months, as traders expect pipeline maintenance in the area to stifle movement of the fuel for some time. Gas...
#15 New MGU Hill Country Underwriters Launches for Artisan Contractors in Texas
Oct 7 2025 // Hill Country Underwriters, a managing general underwriter (MGU) providing casualty insurance for artisan contractors, launches today with a General Liability and Inland Marine product for artisan trade contractors in...
#16 Governor Abbott Reappoints Flagg to Texas Mutual Board
Oct 6 2025 // Gov. Greg Abbott reappointed Brett Flagg to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors. Flagg’s term is set to expire on July 1, 2031. Flagg, of Frisco, is an attorney and the owner of Flagg Law Group PC....
#17 Texas AG Threatens Action Against Chinese Company for Potential Privacy Violations
Oct 9 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he has opened an investigation against TP-Link Systems Inc. (“TP Link”), a manufacturer of networking equipment, for potentially aiding the Chinese government in...
#18 Alliant Expands Transportation Risk and Cross-Border Expertise in Texas
Oct 15 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Texas Insurance Agency in Laredo, one of the U.S.’s busiest international trade ports, specializing in cross-border trucking risk and insurance; as well as McAfee Insurance Agency...
#19 Texas Ag Commissioner at Odds with USDA Over Screwworm Control Methods
Oct 15 2025 // USDA slaps down Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller over New World Screwworm Kate McGee and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune October 14, 2025 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is trading barbs with the...
#20 West Texas Wants to Sell Natural Gas to Power AI Data Centers, But Lacks Infrastructure
Sep 23 2025 // Big data centers that power the artificial intelligence industry demand an abundance of energy. West Texas — known for producing 40% of the nation’s crude oil — also has an extraordinary amount of natural gas...
