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 Efficiency. “Texas can have our own DOGE,” Abbott said Wednesday. “What …
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 collectively own the majority of …
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 that followed the recent federal …
The Results Companies, A business services outsourcing firm agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced. According to the EEOC’s suit, The Results Companies hired an …
Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still …
A slow-moving, active storm system brought heavy rain, large hail and tornadoes to parts of Texas and Oklahoma and left three people dead as severe weather warnings Sunday continue to threaten parts of the south-central and Midwest U.S. On Easter …
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, Texas, a wholly own subsidiary of PrimeOne Insurance …
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 insurance policies. Bennett Crop …
Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the region’s vast petrochemical industry. A new study led …
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 Peralta with Peralta Insurance Brokerage LLC, is charged with theft, a …
