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    News briefs from the Texas Historical Commission
    March 4, 2009
    PLAN TO ATTEND ANNUAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONFERENCE IN APRIL AUSTIN, Texas -Make plans to explore the real places that tell the real stories of Texas by...
    Texas Workforce Commission recovers more than $1.4 million in...
    March 4, 2009
    AUSTIN shy;- The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) recovered more than $1.4 million in restitution in Calendar Year 2008 as a result of statewide criminal prosecutions for...
    Texas Department of State Health Services to take over...
    February 25, 2009
    The Texas Department of State Health Services today announced that it is taking over the recall of products shipped from Peanut Corporation of America's Plainview plant...
    TWC to automatically increase payments to eligible claimants
    February 25, 2009
    AUSTIN - The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced today a $25 increase to weekly unemployment benefits for individuals currently receiving payments. The increase was...
    Texas monthly oil and gas statistics: January
    February 25, 2009
    JANUARY PERMITS TO DRILL The Commission issued a total of 1,264 original drilling permits in January 2009 compared to 1,760 in January 2008. The January total...
    DPS, PRISON OFFICIALS TESTIFY BEFORE FINANCE COMMITTEE
    February 18, 2009
    (Austin) Last session's prison and parole reforms have been successful in slowing the growth of Texas prison populations, according to testimony offered before the Senate...
    Weekly Washington update by Congressman Jeb Hensarling
    February 18, 2009
    Weekly Washington Update From Congressman Jeb Hensarling February 13, 2009 People in this economy are hurting. Hard working...
    SMART RETIREMENT SAVINGS STEPS TO TAKE NOW
    February 18, 2009
    DALLAS - The recent turmoil in the financial markets has touched virtually every sector of the economy. One great source of anxiety for many people is the state of their...
    LAWMAKERS DELVING INTO FEDERAL STIMULUS PACKAGE.
    February 18, 2009
    (Austin) President Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Monday, sending hundreds of billions of dollars into the...
    QUALIFYING FOR A MORTGAGE IN A TOUGH ECONOMY
    February 18, 2009
    DALLAS - Getting a mortgage has become increasingly challenging during recent months. One recent survey showed that 67% of those who applied for a mortgage found it more...
    Attorney General Abbott launches restitution program for...
    February 18, 2009
    AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today launched a restitution program that will make $7.46 million available to eligible Countrywide Financial Corp residential...
    SENATOR FILES BILL TO MAKE HIV TESTING ROUTINE
    February 18, 2009
    A blood test for HIV would be part of a routine checkup for all Texans under a bill filed Tuesday. Houston Senator Rodney Ellis announced the filing of SB 877, which would...
    Texas Senate Week in Review
    February 18, 2009
    (Austin) Hurricane Ike will cost Gulf Coast school districts hundreds of millions of dollars to repair and rebuild facilities damaged or destroyed by the September storms,...
    State housing agency secures $387,000 grant to help step up...
    February 11, 2009
    (AUSTIN) - Determined to stem the tide of home foreclosures across the state and help bring stability to families, neighborhoods and local government finances, the Texas...
    FINANCE LOOKS AT SCHOOL BUDGET
    February 11, 2009
    (Austin) The Senate Finance Committee heard testimony Wednesday that public education will cost the state less in the upcoming biennium. The Legislative Budget Board laid...
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