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Local business and entrepreneurship.
Lake Conroe, Conroe and The Woodlands are not watching one housing market collapse. They are watching three different markets learn how to behave after years when almost nothing about housing was normal.
Paying off a loan once meant the biggest household payment was finished. Today, taxes, insurance, medical coverage and maintenance keep creating new monthly obligations for working families, retirees and nearly everyone between them.
The old junkyard was part store, classroom and mechanical treasure hunt. Today it may scan barcodes, ship parts nationwide and train workers to handle electric-vehicle batteries—but it still gives useful machines one more chance.
Rockets, satellites, robots, chips and artificial intelligence are starting to look less like separate Musk ventures and more like parts of one machine, with Texas becoming its factory floor and the Sun becoming its intended power source.
A Marine veteran spent twelve years turning a Garden Oaks chicken restaurant into a community institution. Then H-E-B bought the lot. What happens next is up to all of us.
Conroe's street-closure debate began with a permit fee. The larger question is how a city prices the small events that help an old downtown stay useful.
Years of drought forced ranchers to sell breeding cattle. Now Americans are discovering how long it takes to grow a hamburger supply back.
A brick exterior looks simple when the scaffolding comes down. Behind it are fired clay, a carefully supported wall, hidden drainage, precise mortar work and a craft that cannot be learned overnight.
AI data centers can be built faster than the power system can connect them. Meanwhile, America has used nuclear fuel that still contains energy, new reactors moving through test programs and isotope projects producing products the country needs. The question is whether the rules can protect the public without trapping workable solutions in paperwork.
A Navy veteran built a successful roofing company after leaving the military. Then he found himself with ownership in a software company he never planned on. Forged in Business Issue 01 sits down with Jesse Mahan in Georgetown, Texas.
An assembly line creates rhythm. Modern multitasking creates interruption.
Artificial intelligence may live in “the cloud,” but the computers running it need real land, real electricity and, in many cases, real water. As data centers spread across the country, communities are asking who will supply those resources — and who will pay for them.