You may never set foot in the Permian Basin or own a barrel of crude, but if you live in...

When a Texas school district or county agrees to cap a company's property taxes, the tax bill does not vanish....

For a family in Port Arthur or Rockport that has weathered a hurricane, the most important number in Washington is...

A full-time job at the Texas minimum wage pays $7.25 an hour. Work 40 hours a week, every week, with...

Here is the actual list, straight from the Texas Workforce Commission's own ranking of high-wage occupations, current as of its...

A local government takes in millions of federal dollars meant for a specific purpose, spends most of it, and then...

A Texan who pays federal taxes is, in effect, helping fund more than 160 separate workforce training programs spread across...

Somewhere in a state database, there may be money with your name on it: a utility deposit you forgot when...

Settlement administrators and consumer advocates have long noted a familiar pattern: real class-action notices are often mailed as plain, unremarkable...

Drive across the Permian Basin in West Texas and you will pass pumpjacks nodding in the dark long after midnight....