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10/26/2026

"Never events" hurt too many Texas patients. Broken laws are to blame.

Surgical “never events” are preventable, but data reveals Texas hospitals and surgery centers report hundreds of errors each year.

10/23/2026

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Wrecker driver Maynor Garcia has rolled up on many vehicle crashes over the years, but he will never forget one accident scene near Katy.

10/23/2026

“Courts, not Congress, are promoting accountability and forcing concrete change.”

A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up.

10/22/2026

Lobbyists gutted our laws. Texans pay with their lives.

These Texans suffered extreme surgery errors. Then, they learned that state law leaves them little recourse. Part one of the Under the Knife series.

10/21/2026

"If there's a problem, we need to study it and fix it, because children's lives are on the line.”

Wrecker driver Maynor Garcia has rolled up on many vehicle crashes over the years, but he will never forget one accident scene near Katy.

10/21/2026

“'It helps regulators. It helps lawmakers crack down on predatory insurance companies, if they’re seeing a pattern of bad behavior,' said Ware Wendell, the executive director of Texas Watch."

The webpage, which initially launched on Sept. 23, displays home and auto insurance data on why policies were canceled or not renewed, as well as why applications were denied.

10/19/2026

While insurance industry executives are paid hundreds of millions and companies profit by billions, policyholders pay more. It is time to investigate the insurance industry.

10/19/2026

In Texas, some data centers receive sales tax breaks. They don't pay, but we do.

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Certain items necessary and essential to the operation of a qualified data center are temporarily exempt from the 6.25 percent state sales and use tax.

10/15/2026

"Surging energy costs were again the primary culprit in the inflation picture."

The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.6% in September on a monthly basis and 3.6% from a year ago, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast.

10/12/2026

See which companies are pushing data centers in Texas.

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List of qualifying data centers and large data center projects in Texas.

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