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Local business and entrepreneurship.
New Census Bureau numbers released Thursday show Texas incomes inched up in 2025 while more than half of the state's renters spent 30% or more of their income on housing. Property tax bills for paid-off homes fell.
Real GDP rose at a 3.4% annual rate from July through September, up from 2.2% in the spring, led by consumer spending and a surge in AI-related business investment.
The Fed held rates steady on Oct. 28, six days before the midterms, while saying inflation remains elevated. Two officials wanted a hike.
The Marco would bring a boat-sized lagoon, office towers, hotels and up to 4,400 homes to the tollway and U.S. 380. Incentive deals come next.
Consumer confidence climbed to 91.7 in October as gas prices eased, the Conference Board said, but worries about food, fuel and inflation remain.
The administration's 90-day plan to import lean beef trimmings at a lower tariff is lagging, economists say much of it would have come anyway, and ranchers oppose it.
The city's 2001 gas franchise expired Sept. 1. Council wants stronger language on old lines and sensitive land before it signs another 25 years.
The Deep East Texas Council of Governments launched the Pineywoods Broadband Coalition to teach computer basics, protect aging water and gas lines from fiber digging and prepare workers for new jobs.
Microsoft confirmed a voluntary buyout offer for around 60,000 employees in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K. as it spends heavily on AI data centers.
Anthropic's S-1 filing shows first-half revenue of $16.3 billion and a net loss of $80.7 billion, most of it from an accounting charge, ahead of an expected November IPO.
Since July 1, every food truck, pushcart and roadside vendor in Texas must hold a single license from the Department of State Health Services. Here are the three license types, the fees and how to apply.
Duncanville's economic development board holds hearings Monday on a $465,395 grant for a pizza place at the old county tax office and a $1.5 million request for a boutique hotel and spa on Main Street.