AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a major victory, blocking the Biden Administration’s unlawful and indefinite ban on approving applications to export liquified natural gas (“LNG”). Texas, along with Louisiana and fourteen other states, filed a lawsuit […]
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Texas Tech Chosen for 2024 Cohort for ARIS’s ORIC Program
The fifth cohort will help create and implement innovative action plans that enhance internal infrastructure for research impact support. Texas Tech University has been chosen as part of the fifth cohort for the Program to Enhance Organizational Research Impact Capacity (ORIC), sponsored by […]
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Secures Indictment Against Mother of Newborn Baby Abandoned 23 Years Ago
JOHNSON COUNTY – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Office of the Attorney General’s (“OAG”) Missing Persons and Cold Case Unit have secured the indictment of Shelby Stotts for 2nd-degree manslaughter. According to the indictment, in November 2001, Stotts […]
State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $3.9 Billion in June
(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $3.94 billion in June, 0.4 percent more than in June 2023. The majority of June sales tax revenue is based on sales made in May and remitted to the agency […]
Boaters Urged to ‘Clean, Drain and Dry’ to Halt Aquatic Invasive Species Spread
AUSTIN – Texans throughout the state take advantage of the Fourth of July holiday to enjoy the summer sun on the water. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) urges boaters and paddlers to do their part to protect the […]
House Takes Up Cruz-Britt IVF Protection Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) introduced the IVF Protection Act to ensure that states do not prohibit access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) services. Reps. Scott Perry (R-Penn.-10) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.-1) have now […]
Disaster Unemployment Assistance Applications Must be Submitted by July 16 Deadline
AUSTIN – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is issuing a reminder that individuals whose employment or self-employment was impacted by April and May’s severe weather events have until July 16 to file for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA). The Presidential Disaster […]
COOKED: Survival by Zip Code Screening & Discussion
Sunday, August 18, 2 – 4 p.m., online COOKED: Survival by ZIP Code reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in […]
Commissioner Andy Meyers celebrates International Yoga Day
Sugar Land, TX (July 1, 2024) – Fort Bend County Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Meyers joined several dozen residents in celebrating International Yoga Day at Telfair Grounds on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Led by certified yoga instructors, the hour-long session […]
Rep Troy E. Nehls Responds to Trump v. United States Ruling
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, Congressman Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22) released the following statement on the United States Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump v. United States: “Today’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court is an important affirmation that Presidents are immune from prosecution for […]
