WACO, Texas - Some 25 years ago, on the heels of a major economic downturn in the state, the Texas Legislature passed legislation allowing local areas to vote to collect extra sales tax to be used for economic development.
Voters...
WACO, Texas - About eight of every ten Americans have high-speed Internet at home. Specifically, over 78 percent of people in U.S. households had a high-speed Internet connection last year, according to a new US Census Bureau report. Almost...
WACO, Texas - The aging of the workforce is a demographic fact. The oldest members of the Baby Boom generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) have begun to reach retirement age, and the effects are being picked up...
BROWNSVILLE, RGV - A lot has been written about SpaceX coming to Brownsville and how the project could transform the Rio Grande Valley and the region’s image around the world.
Not much has been written about the role state Sen....
WACO, Texas, - As horrific and unimaginable as it sounds, child maltreatment is pervasive in the United States and ranks as one of the nation’s most pressing public health and social concerns.
While many incidents no doubt go unreported, reliable...
PHARR, RGV - Pharr is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its bridge to Reynosa this month. How it secured an international port of entry is a lesson in the art of surprise, says a top a governmental affairs consultant.
“The...
WACO, Texas - It’s the end of an era. The Federal Reserve System (Fed) has officially ended “quantitative easing,” the program of bond buying which began during the recession.
The point of quantitative easing (or QE) was to inject liquidity...
McALLEN, RGV - McAllen Mayor Jim Darling and Reynosa Mayor Pepe Elías Leal are to travel to South Korea to try to attract more manufacturing companies to the South Texas-Mexico border region.
Tamaulipas Governor Egidio Torre Cantú is sending a...
WACO, Texas - For his work in the area of market power and regulation, Jean Tirole has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics (formally, “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”).
Dr. Tirole,...
WACO, Texas - On October 13, 2014, the Wright Amendment expired, removing decades-old limitations on flights out of Dallas Love Field.
This is great news for travelers, as it introduces further competition into the market for long-haul flights. When the...
