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#1 Texas Medical Marijuana Industry Sprouts New Businesses, Patients
Jan 12 2026 // After lawmakers blunted expansion for years, Texas’ medical marijuana industry is slated to see more marijuana operators coming online, current ones opening more facilities and more Texans enrolling in the program...
#2 Forecasters Warn of ‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Storm From Texas to the Carolinas
Jan 22 2026 // With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads, trees and power...
#3 Kin Moves Into Florida and Texas With Home-Auto Bundle Products
Jan 27 2026 // Kin, a direct-to-consumer digital personal lines insurer, announced the launch of auto insurance in Florida and Texas. The auto insurance is currently available as part of a bundle or as a standalone product. Home...
#4 Abbott Names Crawford Texas Insurance Commissioner
Jan 8 2026 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott named Amanda Crawford Commissioner of Insurance to replace Cassie Brown. Brown retired after more than four years overseeing the Texas Department of Insurance. Crawford was appointed for a term set...
#5 Cannabis Is Here to Stay, Texas Lawmakers Say
Feb 2 2026 // Cannabis is here to stay in Texas, lawmakers and industry leaders said last week, as efforts to ban consumable hemp are losing steam. However, figuring out how to regulate the market remains a glaring problem that...
#6 Allstate Can Proceed With Recovery in Texas RICO Case: Fifth Circuit
Jan 16 2026 // Allstate can move forward in its recovery of $4.7 million it paid to settle fraudulent medical claims with a Houston, Texas medical facility, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. The federal appellate court reversed...
#7 Texas Faces Freeze While Weekend Snow Risks Rise in New York
Jan 21 2026 // A massive winter storm will sweep across a huge swath of the US starting Friday, freezing Texas before roaring up the East Coast, where New York City and Boston are seeing a strong chance of heavy snow by Sunday. Air...
#8 Texas Insurance Commissioner Brown Retiring
Jan 7 2026 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Cassie Brown is retiring on Feb. 2 after more than four years overseeing the Texas Department of Insurance. Appointed by the governor, the Texas insurance commissioner oversees the regulation...
#9 Texas Deep Freeze Shutters Some Energy-Consuming Industry Sites
Jan 26 2026 // The winter storm sweeping the US has begun disrupting the operations of industrial oil and gas consumers on Texas’ Gulf Coast, including refiners, chemical plants and manufacturers. With almost 10% of US natural gas...
#10 It’s Getting More Expensive to Live in Texas, Census Finds
Jan 29 2026 // It’s getting harder to afford living in Texas — even as incomes and educational attainment grow and poverty declines. Despite the state’s robust economic growth since the start of the decade, incomes in Texas...
#11 US Deep Freeze Wreaks Havoc on Texas Oil Producers and Refiners
Jan 26 2026 // A massive winter storm that swept the US over the weekend crippled oil and gas producers and the industrial plants that refine the raw commodities into everything from gasoline to plastics. Refinery flares lit up the...
#12 Procter & Gamble Tweaks Toothpaste Packaging for Texas AG’s Fluoride Concerns
Jan 9 2026 // Procter & Gamble has begun rolling out new packaging and marketing for Crest children’s toothpaste under an agreement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, after he expressed concern that encouraging excessive...
#13 Texas House GOP Races to Center on Tort Battle
Jan 26 2026 // In 2024, the Texas House Republican primaries were a bloodbath. The cutthroat cycle saw historic levels of campaign ad spending, including the usual cash influx from West Texas oil billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks...
#14 Lawyer for Prominent Texas Law Firm Among Victims ID’d in Maine Plane Crash
Feb 5 2026 // Six people aboard a private business jet registered to the same address as a prominent Houston law firm were killed on Jan. 25 when the jet crashed on takeoff in Bangor, Maine. Local officials on Tuesday named four...
#15 Texts Show Texas Officials’ Confusion About Campers’ Fate Amid Flood
Jan 14 2026 // The first 911 call from the historic Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River came in at 3:57 a.m., when a caller told the dispatcher she was stranded on a hill and cabins around her were filling with water. Around the same...
#16 Texas Proposes 13,000% Fee Hike on Hemp THC Shops
Jan 16 2026 // Texas state health officials have proposed raising licensing fees by as much as 13,000% for some hemp businesses, among a slate of changes that many industry members and advocates say will shutter small operations in favor...
#17 Texas Grid Shows How Batteries Can Help Avoid Winter Blackouts
Feb 4 2026 // Last month’s sprawling winter storm from Texas to New England was one of the first multi-grid tests in the US for big batteries. They passed. Texas in particular benefited from energy storage, which helped cushion...
#18 Texas Power Grid Faces Major Test From Season’s Biggest Storm
Jan 22 2026 // A powerful winter storm descending on Texas on Friday will be one of the toughest tests of the state’s electric grid since the system collapsed during a deadly 2021 freeze. Ice is predicted for the Dallas area, the...
#19 Texas Congresswoman Wants Legal Status for Migrant Construction Workers
Jan 9 2026 // U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz promised to explore new ways for migrants to work legally in the construction industry. The Edinburg Republican announced on Monday her plans to meet with the U.S. Department of Labor, after...
#20 New Regulations for Texas Hemp Industry Approved
Jan 21 2026 // New regulations for the consumable hemp industry were approved by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on Tuesday, concluding the agency’s involvement in a yearlong effort to more tightly regulate the products in...
